Friday 10th Mar 2000
Rodney Hide
Media Release -- Economy
ACT Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide said that Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton’s denouncement of free markets today
showed just how far left the New Zealand Government had lurched.
“Jim Anderton’s comments are worrying business. It’s certainly worrying investors and it’s not helpful to New Zealand’s
credit rating.
“It’s absurd for Jim Anderton to declare the “free Market’ policies of the last century a failure. The comparison is
with socialism which is in complete collapse around the world. State interventions like Jim Anderton is always proposing
have never worked.
“What’s disturbing is just how far Jim Anderton is prepared to go. We now have New Zealand being run by political and
economic dinosaurs,” said Rodney Hide.
ENDS
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act@parliament.govt.nz.