ACT’s alternative budget: Cuts to taxes and public services
The ACT Party is proposing a wide range of cuts and an increase to the superannuation age to achieve tax cuts and return the government to surplus within a year.
As The Daily Blog has been pointing out since the election, the extreme hard right policy of ACT is simply not appreciated by the majority of kiwis.
But it’s there, oh sweet Jesus is it there.
That’s just the start…
- Cut and freeze the Minimum wage
- Interest back on all student loans
- No Kiwsaver subsidy
- Cancel winter energy payment
- Dump all climate crisis legislation
- no more best start payments for families with new borns
- cut welfare payments
- no tax credits for research and development
- cuts to working for families
- $7b a year cut in public services
- Abolish Maori seats
- Abolish Human Rights Commission
This is Romper Stomper Hard Right insanity that makes Qanon look reasonable and because there is no way National can win without ACT, every vote to National empowers ACT.
David Seymour is a very funny, very clever, very talented politician who desperately wants what the humans call, ‘l-o-v-e’.
He doesn’t want to be in Parliament for one second longer than he has to.
He wants to get out of politics and get paid enormous money in the corporate world and maybe find a friend.
In short, David is a wide eyed idealogical mouth foamer who feels honour bound to mutilate the State so that it’s too wounded to ever grow back.
It’s called the Milton Friedman Prune.
David is a man in a hurry to try and get a life before politics robs him of one, so when he puts out these blistering policy directions that would cause enormous damage and carnage to the social infrastructure that so many people desperately require every day to survive, you best fucking believe he would do it in the blink of a sociopath’s eye.
The poor PSA representative the News cut to to get comment of what 14 000 job losses would look like in the public service stammered and almost burst into tears so needless was David’s malice.
While TDB has been pointing out that the Wellington Bureaucracy certainly do control policy and have far too much influence for their own self interest, we argue conquering that requires a plan to use tasers on their most sensitive areas to advance a left wing economic policy platform. It doesn’t require taking a chainsaw to the entire capacity of the State and calling that blunt force trauma amputation surgical!
David is throwing the baby, the bath, the little plastic toys, the soap and the entire toilet out with the bathwater.
I don’t see why the nation has to suffer another hard right neoliberal hatchet job on the State’s capacity to help people just because David Seymour wants to get laid now.
David wants to hand on heart be able to tell Satan that he did all he could to mutilate the State before he leaves for a life of first class travel and disappointed in-laws.
Here’s how you defeat National:
Just how batshit crazy ACT policy is will make many flinch.
Many blokes have walked away from Labour and the Greens and are voting National because they are sick of Jacinda and our ever triggered woke hysterical activists.
There are 2 things everyone flirting with voting National need to recognise right now.
1: Luxon can do the 45 second CEO soundbite but he has zero intellectual curiosity, he is a devout evangelical Christian whom believes his wealth is proof positive that Jesus loves him. His policies will make things far far far worse in this country in terms of housing, inequality and poverty so don’t pretend voting against Jacinda for him makes you radical or edgy, it makes you a fuckwit
2: Luxon is such a boofhead, he’ll let David run rings around him in terms of pushing through crazy ACT Party policy because Luxon isn’t interested in philosophy, he’s interested in God’s love of him being the best he can be. Policy is something the little people do, and Christopher don’t do little people stuff. National are selling Luxon’s certainty to you, and that’s all.
You vote National, you get ACT Far Right Policy.
Make no mistakes that Seymour wants to ram this madness through, and Chris Luxon is intellectually too vain to stop him.
You vote National, you get ACT Far Right Policy.
New National recruits are voting because they are angry with Labour and the Greens, they don’t realise yet what they are actually getting with that protest vote.
You vote National, you get ACT Far Right Policy.
Once punters realise what the fuck crazy David Seymour can ram past an easily distracted Luxon, the sooner they’ll come back to Labour.
Sure, male voters are pissed off with the Left, but they’re not fucking insane.
How the Left will fuck it up:
The above message, ‘Vote National and you get ACT Far Right policy’ is the only thing Labour and Green activists should say between now and the 2023 election.
That forces newly supporting National voters to reflect on what a blue tick actually is getting them and in turn can win back centrist supporters for Labour.
What the activist base will instead do however is get into social media death fights with ACT acolytes over policy while screaming racist and sexist which will end up pushing people deeper into their polarisation.
This next election is going to be the most extreme in NZ since Rogernomics.
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Sure, male voters are pissed off with the Left, but they’re not fucking insane.
I wouldn’t bank on that…
The worst of this is the proposal to raise the pension age from 65-67 by 2025. This is nothing less than barbaric and will hurt the poorest the most. All so some rich prick like Seymour can pay less tax. These rich pricks can go and get fucked.
It is 67 in Australia and UK so why not here.Some countries in Europe are 60 to 63 but they are in a terrible state financially like Spain and Greece. There are some workers doing hard manual work who should be able to retire early but the average retirement age now in NZ is 69 and some can go on longer . I was forced to retire at 68 due to health issues and now do volenteering as I can choose when I help but would love to be working .
The heating allowance is given to many who do not need it but others need more especially young families .It would be fairer to means test it but it may not be financially viable
Less public servants is good in principle but not those doing front line work like teachers and medical people but I am sure there are many high paid paper pushers we could do without
Your sense of humanity is out to lunch. What about the people between 65 and 67 who cannot work or find a job? Out on the street? There are heaps of people who are extremely glad that they are able to retire or claim the pension at 65? Why do you want to push them into penuy? Where is your common decency?
It’s all about Trevor. What suits him and what he imagines will also suit everyone else. Do people who write here regularly really sit down and think about what is needed, what people can cope with, which will be different from the commenter? But what could they manage with a bit of help that would really make life better and prepare them and all of us for the coming tribulations we are constantly advised about?
All our Governments are much the same …. they like a bit of this and a bit of that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EMqHYYqA8s
… most of what they say is an Act
this I agree with – demographics are gonna kill us like the cost of shelter is – put it up to 70 and means test it including trust assets
Seymours’ far right party has plenty of money for guns but none for food or power for struggling families, instead he wants to sell more of our family silver. What a fucken wanker we don’t want him anywhere near power and when will National get some balls and say nah! we don’t agree with going that far or are they scared the horses for courses will bolt from their stable.
A few decades ago Act’s policies would have been considered a little to the right of center, it is because Labour has gone so far to the Left that Act’s policies are considered to be extreme Right.
Ok Mark V. While you sit patiently under that bridge, waiting for three completely unsuspecting goats to turn up, do entertain us with how you work that out.
Do you not remember Muldoon?
I agree Gagarin, Soccer Mum’s are the worst, you can probably toss in Tennis ladies also, they tell it shot i say order the man folk who to vote for.
Ha fuck this is a great blog post- how ever:
” His policies will make things far far far worse in this country in terms of housing, inequality and poverty”
We have just witnessed the biggest rise in these things in our country under Labour- So i doubt Luxon would be as bad as its just been!!
Most of that looks like pretty solid policy to me. We need to end race segregation and gender bias in New Zealand. This looks like a good start.
It is 67 in Australia and UK so why not here.Some countries in Europe are 60 to 63 but they are in a terrible state financially like Spain and Greece. There are some workers doing hard manual work who should be able to retire early but the average retirement age now in NZ is 69 and some can go on longer . I was forced to retire at 68 due to health issues and now do volenteering as I can choose when I help but would love to be working .
The heating allowance is given to many who do not need it but others need more especially young families .It would be fairer to means test it but it may not be financially viable
Less public servants is good in principle but not those doing front line work like teachers and medical people but I am sure there are many high paid paper pushers we could do without
Trevor S. Volunteering is another way way to learn the things which few politicians do, and which can niggle at one’s peace of mind forevermore – an elderly lady in her 80’s seeking a financial arrangement to pay for a pair of second-hand shoes shouldn’t really be happening. I do know folk who sit in the library to keep warm, and who explain which window receives the most sun. I find walking outdoors makes a cold house warmer to return to, but not everybody can do that. I think someone like Seymour, comfortable with the elderly living in freezing cold, has to be either a ruthless ruthless little bastard or psycho. Babies being admitted to hospital with bronchiolitis, or worse, is grim, and can impact practically upon the whole family unit in major ways. You probably recall the newspaper publicity the handful of old folk admitted to Christchurch Hospital every winter used to receive, but “privacy” is now a very convenient political tool for artful dodgers .
The whole issue of the obscene prices which New Zealanders now pay for the electric power usage which further enriches the people who own the electricity supply and its deliverance, is a separate issue for which some politicians deserve a horse-whipping, but this issue alone is one which places Seymour on the outskirts of civilised society.
He’s also quite an idiot failing to factor in the economic costs of anything which impacts upon people’s health or well being. He’s reputed to be reasonably clever, but that’s not clever, except insofar as we, the long-suffering tax payers bear the cost, as usual. Partnership with the dingbat in the black Mercedes who confused getting the leadership of an imploding party of talentless gits with the state opening of Parliament, is bad news.
Trevor S Addendum. I omitted the “ hypothermia” in my comment. The handful of old folk admitted every winter to Christchurch Hospital with hypothermia, due to the impact of low temperatures which multi layers of clothing can’t alleviate, used to be reported. One of my local library squatters, mid 70’s, went to his GP with chilblains, which I’d not really heard of since my schooldays, when they seemed to have been seen as an affliction of the children of the poor.
ACT’s list. The opposite of Schindler’s List as in having no interest in conserving and helping people or managing the world so it’s okay for people to live in.
ACT’s list – a wet dream for Scrooges with gout.
That heater could be comforting for the people who live on the streets. The people who sit in libraries to keep warm, or who spend all day riding around on buses courtesy of Winston Peters, can get cold at night. The children of the poor living in garages and sheds and aunty’s wash house could be taking up hospital beds when winter kicks in and the virus does more virus stuff, and living in a motel, while better than a car or a tent, is a sub-optimum start to life for our most precious taonga. This creep knows this – but so do all the shabby politicos leading Labour and the Nats, but it doesn’t impact on them or their focus groups, so they don’t care.
14000 members of the public service given the arse! We can only dream.
NZTA needs completely gutting and starting again just got a start.
Half of MPI could go and Noone would notice, MBIE also needs emptying and restarting. And probably all the others.
14000 should just be a start if we want to fix the country.
Someone fire everyone in Auckland transport and the douche bag cycle lobby while we are at it – suggesting removing teacher car parks and taking vehicle lanes for bikes- see ya!
It’s a great time to fire useless bureaucrats who’s actual job is making everyone’s life more difficult, we have never had such a job shortage.
The seat warmers can be redeployed to fruit picking and milking cows immediately, they can be a seamless part of the system they have forced on us all.
I’ll bet they will enjoy the shitty wages and working conditions and they get to be critical workers! So if Covid is about then fuck you, you have to work and no staying home and still getting payed.
What’s not to like.
You don’t really have a sense of humanity do you? All you care about is a tax cut, and stuff the good work that these admin staff do. Most of the are call centre workers who help people.
Wages and conditions are still shit in the primary sector.
These administrators provide an important service that helps New Zealanders. They are mainly call centre workers and administrators, and you want to let them go and tell them to milk cow and pick fruit in shitty conditions.
Just goes to show that you care more about tax cuts and shrinking the state.
Won’t someone think of the bureaucrats eh millsy.
You are right it’s a mighty talented admin that can disappear 1.9 billion dollars extra funding and actually increase wait times for mental health.
Some people should be in jail over that in my opinion, and so many other examples.
We need a corruption watch dog and a massive clean out.
WTF are you on about with taxes? Haven’t said anything about that have I.
A bit testy for someone with your name. A bureaucratic corruption watchdog , okay, defeats your argument.
Not at all Bert, what’s to be testy about, the woke bureaucrats who are choking the life out of the country might have to justify their jobs with a change of government and it’s not before time.
The same applied to thee bureaucrats that lost their jobs when National lost, it’s normal.
Keepcalmcarryon Sure you’re not Bill English’s spawn ? Now where would you be domiciling the former bureaucrats turned cow milkers and apple pickers ? Dipton for cow people ? Hmm ? Even Bill couldn’t stand it and fled to Treasury and never went back after experiencing life in the Windy City and the sophisticated culinary delight of eating spaghetti on dough, so why should others have to ? The fruit pickers are being replaced by mechanical pickers, but I daresay, that Lambton Quay and Thorndon Hill could be planted out as orchards, but today’s people only want indigenous greenery and they’ll be chopping down everything else whether it be a splendid oak or an Ernest Shackleton statue or a pretty little maple. You’re sounding suspiciously like the Parliamentary protestors who planted a herb garden up there – how authentic is that – and I suggest that you stop smoking that stuff and read Steinbeck instead of watching television.
We can fill dams with public service tears and attain carbon neutral by powering wind turbines with the shrieking of the PMC.
It will be glorious.
Yes, where will they all get jobs?
I guess they can ask all the people who they decided were in sunset industries how to find useful employment, they are bound to want to help.
We could start a go fund me for unemployed Wellington troughers it’s bound to get at least $5 from millsy.
In any other country ACT would be considered no more “right” than centre left. Martyn has jumped out the Overton Window.
If only Jacinda had done something.
What an astounding view. Personally I have found David Seymour articulate and intelligent.
Agreed Daniel. David Seymour would be a way better leader of the right-wing bloc in NZ than Chris Luxon is, or every will be. Even if Seymour doesn’t get the National Party leadership after the next re-shuffle, it will be David Seymour as Minister of Finance under a NACT coalition.
Seymour as finance minister is just straight out delusional.
Winstone here comes my vote.
Seymour the maori. straight outta azarov. on the roastbusters couch. one of these statements is incorrect.
Act is hard right. The Greens are hard woke. The Moari. Party is hard separatism. THt is what you get from MMP so that Labour and Nation can hug the middle
If you think the Maari party represents separatism then you do not know what separatism is.
Can they legally actually cut the minimum wage
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