Originally Posted by
Blue Skies
I know its incredibly tough for dairy at the moment, hopefully just a temporary low point in the cycle, & then theres' been the devastating cyclones.
Genuine question from a curious city person, when you say the govt has done virtually nothing to support farmers while enforcing impractical regulations, I'm interested to know specifics. What regulations?
Help us understand.
Didn't the govt set up a $26 million relief fund on top of another $4 million for farmers for Cyclone relief, & when I look at the MPI site there seem to be a raft of funding grants available to encourage innovation & support agriculture & horticulture.
Also didn't this Labour govt make us the first country in the world to eradicate Mycoplasma Bovis, with grants to help farmers who lost stock? (And didn't National say it couldn't be done)
The Clean Car Discount scheme, encouraging new vehicle buyers away from heavily emitting vehicles which some farmers derogatorily called a Ute tax, was very broadly supported by NZ'ers & even Chris Luxon used it to buy 2 EV Teslas.
As well as being popular its been way more successful than anticipated.
Apart from helping us reach our emissions targets which Even Chris Luxon says National are 100% committed to, with the price of petrol & diesel EV's & Hybrids are looking sound economic choices.
So perhaps we can leave the Clean Car Discount out of it?