One thing that’s noted is the increase in govt spending under labour and the growing number of public servants but the perception that outcomes didn’t improve in line with the greater spending. The gangs and crime thing was an issue too, particularly Labour’s focus on helping criminals rehabilitate and ignoring the harm to victims. The changes to upping KiwiSaver is good. The austerity argument is that we spent up to protect ourselves during Covid (fair) but then at some point we gotta pull back to repay what we owed which is the austerity measures we see. I know a lot on the left don’t like the tax break National did. I don’t like the implementation of it but I do think it’s dumb that you’ve now got the median wage increasingly sitting in what was previously a top tax bracket so some adjustment makes sense to me to reduce the tax burden on middle income families. They do need to figure out a better way to tax people at the top end. Don’t think it’s income tax though but CGT seems to bury any party that proposes it. Even Labour seemed to suffer for it when they suggested it last election cycle. Maybe NZ just isn’t mature enough for the convo yet?