Policies
According to the party's website, "The National Party seeks a safe, prosperous and successful New Zealand that creates opportunities for all New Zealanders to reach their personal goals and dreams".
The National Party As of 2007 advocates policies of reducing taxes, reducing social welfare payments, promoting free trade, restoring or maintaining New Zealand's traditional (Western) defence and security alliances and promoting one standard of citizenship for all New Zealanders ("One law for all"). The party's policy-documents contain commitments to doubling New Zealand's economic growth, to giving welfare payments only to "those in genuine need" and to "speedy, full and final settlements to historic Waitangi Treaty claims".
National's 2008 tax package plan set out a three-year programme of personal tax cuts.
The National Party says it wants to retain skilled New Zealand workers and attract overseas New Zealanders back to New Zealand. The National Party proposes to better match skills of immigrants and make immigration services world class in efficiency and effectiveness, restoring confidence in their integrity.
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