That's not an unreasonable argument. Here in NZ various political leaders (e.g. Don Brash) and prominent business lobbyists (members of the now-defunct Busines

That's not an unreasonable argument. Here in NZ various political leaders (e.g. Don Brash) and prominent business lobbyists (members of the now-defunct Business Roundtable, for example) have been quite open in their desire to see New Zealand be "more like Singapore" (though not, curiously, on topics such as large-scale state intervention in housing or telecommunications, for example).