Opinion: Labour not ducking tax issue, but it`s dangerous ground
(WorldNews Politics)

Is Labour drowning in its water tax? Is the major Opposition party choking from having overestimated the public´s appetite for a capital gains tax? In the wake of the surprise finding of last night´s Newshub-Reid Research poll, those questions now carry much more resonance in the hothouse atmospherics of an extremely tight election campaign. The latest Newshub poll not only defied the prevailing wisdom that next week´s general election will produce a change of government. Source: 1 NEWS It threw up the possibility that National could govern alone. There is only one thing the pundits can do when confronted with such volatility - throw away the polls and instead make a bulk purchase of chicken...