Oh FFS…
The Green Party will continue to push for a wealth tax, with its co-leader saying she is “frustrated” at the Government’s lack of action on the housing crisis.Â
Party co-leader Marama Davidson said on Tuesday growing public housing lists and skyrocketing house prices must be “urgently addressed”.
“Many homeowners are earning more on capital gains than average income earners,” she said on Wednesday.
“Additionally, there are now 22,409 households eligible for public housing still waiting to be homed since the end of November last year.”
Davidson says the Government should be using “more of the tools in the toolbox” to fix the issue – including taxing wealth and capital gains.
She says her party will continue to push for a “fairer tax system” which taxes wealth as well as income to stop “rampant property speculation” contributing to inequality.Â
But Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has categorically ruled out a wealth tax.
…as I advised at the time, the Greens should not have spinelessly accepted the dead rats Labour had to offer right after the election and should have gone into opposition because they had no power and have no power OTHER THAN the threat to go into opposition.
They fucked up the negotiation process because they have crap strategists and have all the offensive capacity of slow growing moss.
In the end the Greens will be seen as simply propping up tepid nothings as policy rather anything transformative.
Which is exactly the place they find themselves in now!
Who cares what the Greens have to say about the obscene explosion in house prices, the Greens are tethered to Labour so their criticisms means jack shit!
The Greens made this bed and are now complaining about lying in it.
If they had been more tactical at the negotiation process, if they looked beyond the empty baubles they were given, they would have a a righteous place to criticise Labour from now.
They don’t.
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Maybe they could have a think about environment issues now, or climate change, or consider a name change and become The Beige Party, or The Monitors of Naughty Words and Thoughts, Bike Riders of the Burning Planet.
Yep, they look like gormless idiots tethered to our gormless prime minister who thinks last years massively out of date plans to build an additional 8000 state houses some time in the next 3 years, now nearly 60% too few to satisfy demand this very day, is a solution.
They look like fools because THEIR government are so stupid they can’t work out that every day this crisis goes on many more people are thrown on the waiting list suffering.
Are they morons or what?
And lets not forget, announcements, even as fundamentally inadequate as the rehash just announced by our PM goes, tend to never eventuate under this Labour government.
And worse this rehashed announcement does not address the super rapidly growing crisis that caused it.
Everyone party to this fiasco is guilty and should be planning a career change, minimum.
You are forgetting that the natz are far more gormless !
Agreed Xray
the green party is just a cardboard copy with no teeth to force change to lower the transport carbon emissions now increasing daily, as more trucks carry freight than before.
We want Climate change action now,!!!!!! to get rail freight back, but Greens are asleep at the wheel on this.
Xray: a tough critique, accurately-aimed and richly-deserved. I completely agree with you.
100% spot on the mark. In the current environment it takes a bold left winger to refuse the Koolaid and speak plainly.
You smashed this one outta the park bomber, a home run. You called it months ago. They should have gone into bat for us poor renters, first home buyers and homeless when it counted. Straight after the election during negotiations even though they had nothing to negotiate with they could of stirred up Labour enough to maybe get benefits raised before Xmas. But no.
To me this sudden wake up of the slumbering greens around housing inequality appears not much more than virtue signalling.
I don’t think the green ewok village is the place to look to for resistance
Thankfully, my tomatoes and radishes and gherkins are still doing fine. Maybe they’re just living in hope for the inherent (and slogan-less) transformation and kindness promised by the party they once voted for.
Here’s me tearing me bloody hair out, worrying they might be suffering from the same blight and “headwinds going forward” Labour has had for the past 30 plus years. It seems they might be
If I see signs, I’ll shove ’em all on the next activist cyclist’s shopping basket and send them express down the bus lane to Garret Street. Or even to Les Mills who should be able to get them to just pull themselves together
A wealth tax is a very bad idea. Very difficult to administer (the valuation side will be a nightmare) and essentially state sponsored repossession of people’s assets AKA theft. In the European Union it would be illegal under European human rights legislation.
It is also totally unnecessary and not helpful. It’s only achievement will be to put the middle class off voting for the green party (the only socialist option). Just introduce capital gains (which is automatically valued at sale) on property after the nth property. Pick n to be large enough to not penalize those middle class who have bought an extra house to pay for their retirement and low enough to make a difference to the house price problem. I’m guessing 2 or 3.
You also need to build houses and provide long term fixed rate mortgages, e.g. 3% for 30 years. The housing problem is deliberately created. It is not difficult to fix. The government just has to stop creating it. Helping to solve it is a secondary step!
What crash, the crash,what crash.
I’ve already said worse-than-useless [because they actively promote the wrong things] more times than I can remember over the years.
What now? This, I suppose.
The even-more worse-than-useless-than-before party.
Snow White has some good suggestions, and ‘The Monitors of Naughty Words and Thoughts, Bike Riders of the Burning Planet’ has a nice ring to it, though I suspect most of the Greeds don’t actually ride bikes.
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