Labour in caretaker mode might have made another mistake & jumped on some 'wasteful spending' ;)
Thanks Labour :)
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Whilst BS & other pink/red party supporters continue to hold on to the severely corrupted premise that State is the fixer of all society's problems (including their own), it shouldn't be surprising that they, therefore, become excessively emotive on these sorts of discussions.
Sadly, whilst maintaining this corrupted thinking, a natural psychological defense mechanism for this type of character is to act & communicate irrationally toward anything & anyone who they see as encouraging individual responsibility & reducing the marauding powers of a Nanny State.
The only true, long-lasting, solution to our problems is for the respective individual, family & community to take responsibility for their own actions (or lack of) and therefore outcomes.
Many will remember buying cigarettes in the pub - smuggled in illegally on the boats to avoid customs. One occasion I remember was customs in Dunedin finding hollowed out ships-masts stuffed with huge quantities of fags - cigarette cartons. There was an extremely active black market back in the sixties. That's the sort of thing to be avoided, and other black market activities. There are other and better ways of getting people to change behaviour other than banning by age.
What's worse? Cut and paste of an insightful document, or the **** you post here BS.
It doesn't seem to be working for the widespread Meth & other illicit stuff through all our communities though.
Obviously Labour have handed out large rolls of bills to gangs - here boys, go train yourselves .. tax yourselves .. dont let us see you and we'll try to keep both eyes closed. There is no problem .. Yeah right.
God only knows how the Green's favoured carnation for all stance was likely to work, or be taxed if that ever got across the line too .. :)
A relatively small issue is smoking, cigarettes etc when compared to other things - vapes, the illegal stuff, green carnation are considered.
Was Road to Zero another paper bag over the head high cost campaign flicked over the way of the bods who were on the Smoke Free job - for a repeat instalment of more brilliance ? ;)