Litany of woes
- Broken surcharge promise in 1990
- 1991 attempt to make NZS a welfare benefit
- Legislation reversed
- New tighter surcharge in 1992
- PPR Taskforce and the 1993 Accord
- 1996 Coalition decision to get rid of the surcharge
- 92% rejection of the 1997compulsory scheme
- PRG 1997 report, sidelined
- Failure to solve the tax problem 1998(Tolis)
- Sudden unilateral change to NZS indexation 1998
- Expensive new Taskforce 2000.