Couldn't agree more.
Who can we reach out to?
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I was watching David Seymour debate about the tax system in NZ:
https://youtu.be/NQX1h4RIWa0
I like what he has to say and despite my neighbour says the National Party is no different to the Labour Party in terms of accepting the WHO and all their policies. I would strongly consider giving ACT the vote - but we all have to see later in the year what each party is campaigning to do.
NZ's medical sovereignty must be on the electoral agenda. The parties need to declare what their position is on handing power to the WHO. NZers should not tolerate having an unelected incompetent bunch in Geneva dictating what jabs we must have or the need for digital medical passports.
I liked that Chloe talks about studies and numbers whereas David generalises and waffles about "attitudes and values". I can't help thinking that he might have a point about more taxpayer dollars not getting much value for money though, but he has an ideology that says less tax and less government will lead to a better society so any facts or figures to the contrary will get dismissed. Good that he worked out that the highly taxed scandinavian countries, the "happiest" in the world apparently would be used to argue for a new tax. Although suggesting their results today are due to low taxes 163 years ago in 1860 seems a bit of a stretch.
What I don't appreciate with the Green's (Chloe's) comment is NZ is not like those other countries. Because we DID MORE gov't spending and having the end result getting less. Now she's saying we should be doing... ?? Spending MORE?? Where do you draw the line where gov't can keep wasting more tax dollars? I can also assure you the Scandinavians knows a thing or two about efficiencies - their gov'ts won't waste like we do. Sweden, if I recall correctly spends the most on children with mental disabilities such as autism (more than any other OECD nation). Where are they getting all the resources from? Psst.. it's not because they enjoy taxing more, but rather, their gov't puts the $ where their mouth is and gets results.
I also have a problem why NZ has been left behind compared to the rest of the other nations? That is alone, a fundamental problem that our gov'ts don't seem to care.. and so we continue to see the brain drain carrying on.
Good old David Seymour
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/132...y%20more%20tax.
ACT leader David Seymour criticised the open letter.
“It’s always been such a lame humble brag ‘I’m so rich, I want to pay more tax’. You know what, if they want to help other people, they can very happily put their hands in their own pocket right now.
“The fact that they are wealthy doesn’t mean they know more about policies. It does mean that they have got the ability to put the hand in their own pocket and help others should they choose. The fact they are not doing that and trying to make a statement about how rich they are tells you a little bit about them frankly.”
David thinks wealthy successful people can make the best judgement about all things such as helping people and where best to fund social welfare. Tax them less and no doubt the country would be a better place. Although wealthy people writing letters asking to be taxed more, obviously don't know anything. It is just the wealthy people who hate paying tax who know best about everything.
No doubt David is a deep thinker and leading intellectual of our time.
Kerry Packer on tax :
https://youtu.be/e97kq2XflKE
Bang on, especially with this spend thrift wasteful and clueless Labour government.
Agreed hard to see what we got for doubling the govt debt over covid, especially when we are just living with it now and no one gives a s*it about the people dying of it but back in the day these deaths were somehow unacceptable. Hindsight makes all decision making easier though but we can see that it was a massive overreaction, at least any lockdowns after the first one.
Getting censored again I guess I could do with a break.
Gotta love what Symour had to say about today's budget:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political...t-for-the-rich
Robertson is "fiscally incontinent".
Some quotes:
"Incontinence is where you just have no control of things squirting out and when it comes to government spending that describes Grant Robertson unfortunately. He is fiscally incontinent."
"This is a reckless, irresponsible blowout budget with $7.5 billion worth of deficit spending next year that will put all of this government's attempts to help with the cost of living in the shade."
"Adrian Orr will have been saying things in his office at the Reserve Bank that I'm not allowed to say in this House when he realised how irresponsible Grant Robertson is with his spending."
"That is why October 14 is judgement day and October 15 is retirement day for all those Labour backbenchers."
He doesn't mince his words.
Why haven't the credit rating agencies or market responded to such a blowout.
They delivered a message recently to the UK's unfunded tax cuts.