Look, if you want to support the Firefighters, Nurses, Teachers and Drs, then the State has to raise the extra funds to pay for that!
Where are they going to find those extra funds?
They can’t borrow for State sector wages (although we should borrow for infrastructure, greening or system and building resilience), so we need to raise revenue rather than relocating funds from an already underfunded public service.
THAT’S WHY if you support the Firefighters, Nurses, Teachers and Drs you should be demanding a financial transaction tax and legalised cannabis!
For too long the right have managed to keep the tax yoke on the workers rather than the corporations and banks.
We can’t spend more because the neoliberal orthodoxy keeps amputating the State’s ability to raise revenue.
By implementing a financial transaction tax, by implementing a windfall tax on Banks, we take the yoke of taxation off individuals and place it squarely on the success of those who’ve profited most from a stable economic environment.
A financial transaction tax would raise enough revenue for us to reduce GST down to 10%!
A windfall tax on Banks would fund better health and education!
If cannabis were legalised, the New Zealand industry could employ about 5000 people and reap almost $1.1 billion in taxes a year, two in-depth reports by Business and Economic Research Ltd have shown.
If we want to fund our Firefighters, Nurses, Teachers and Drs with better wages and conditions then we need to raise the revenue and that should be off the back of the richest, not the poorest!
Until we on the Left take the economic side seriously, we will be left with a movement that can only virtue signal our pronouns and chocolate bar wrapper’s in Māori to an increasingly alienated voter.
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“For too long the right have managed to keep the tax yoke on the workers rather than the corporations and banks.”
The ruling class or whatever name we call those with enough money to influence politics is the force that has moved the tax base from primarily their interests (big business) to primarily, we the people. It is, at the very very least, a misnomer to blame the Right, for this highly significant change of events.
If we the people want more for our fellow citizens, then we need to fight back against the onerous hold that money has on the political class. First step in this process is in understanding whom the enemy of we, the people truly is – it is the moneyed class!
Juvenile.
In order for an argument to be what you believe it t be, you have to explain why you believe it to be what you think it is. Otherwise, a single word counter is a fair reflection of said counter.
Unless this government takes a reality test we will not have any of these workers left as they leave for a land not too far away where they can get paid a decent wage
Give citizenship to Mick Lynch and watch him wipe the floor with the LABNAT RATS. End this constant protection of the rich pricks wealth status whilst allowing the poor to fall into complete despair.