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Why a temporary flood levy on higher earners would be the fairest way to help pay for Cyclone Gabrielle
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Cyclone Gabrielle’s trail of misery and destruction presents a major fiscal and political dilemma for the government: how should the country pay for the recovery? Does it borrow now and spread repayment over generations, or raise taxes in…