Greens co-leader James Shaw believes a windfall tax for fossil fuel companies is something that New Zealand should consider, but the Prime Minister isn’t showing a lot of enthusiasm for the idea.
OF COURSE WE SHOULD HIT FOSSIL FUEL COMPANIES WITH A WIND FALL TAX!
We should also be doing them for damages like Mike Smith is for environmental crimes against the planet.
We should also be hitting banks with a windfall tax as well!
We should also be placing a financial transaction tax while lowering GST so we transition the yoke of taxation off the shoulders of the workers and citizens of New Zealand and back on the Corporations and Banks who are obesely inflating their profit margins while society implodes because of the pressures post Covid.
The speed with which Jacinda simply shots the idea down and watching James Show having to humiliatingly mumble thoughts and prayers.
The modern Labour Party is becoming nothing more than middle class performance art that is focused on diversity and representation while ruthlessly adhering to neoliberal economic free market orthodoxy.
The tax yoke of the State must be taken from the citizen and placed upon the corporation to help fund the economic and. societal adaptation climate changes forces upon us.
For the Prime Minister to merely meh the suggestion off with zero debate shows you who really rules New Zealand.
The Banks and the Corporations.
Meanwhile 27 000 wait on emergency housing, 200 000 kids are in poverty, there are more homeless in cars now than when Labour first came to power and entire generations are locked out of home ownership with 100 000+ food parcels going out each month!
Our social infrastructure needs rebuilding post Covid and the funds can only come from new taxation models that force the richest to contribute more to the society that they profit from.
The moment is building beyond Jacinda’s caution.
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Emergency housing list 27,000.
Children in poverty 200,000.
Food parcels 100,000 per month.
More homeless in cars now than when Labour Government came into power.
So how can anyone vote Labour? Their election platform was fixing the above?
The moment is beyond Jacinda Ardern’s capability.
The modern Labour Party does not represent their core voting base but rather a bunch of academics.
Yes taxation is a means of financing what should be done so can fiscal management. Stop the wasteful spending of billions on consultants and vanity projects to begin with.
I’m not hopeful given that after 5 years this Government have clearly shown they have zero skills.
Typical Bob! When you know full well that it’s all John Key’s fault! Bob Bob Bob, none of what you say happened – it’s all just brilliant leadership from our beloved PM Ardern, the Christchurch Caller…the most important issue in the whole wide world (because it doesn’t involve having to face the grim realities of the state of her own country.)
And Nationals proposal to fix those problems you admit they created?
Give the poor $2 a week.
Yep you two are really onto it!
Our politicians primarily do what their masters, the bankers and the corporate owners, allow them to do. They otherwise are free to do as they please along as they stay clear of their ‘master’ plans. Fighting between ourselves, Labour v National, is idiotic when there is another power at play (the masters), royally, doing us all over.
Had the masters not created neoliberalism, thus tilting the economic pie heavily in their favour, we the people would only be needing to work three days a week by now in order to sustain ourselves and our future, while all public services would be more than adequately funded to boot.
Our problem is the money dictating policy. We need to fight this by holding all politicians to account, ditto their media stenographers. Otherwise, merely fighting the Left puppet or the Right puppet just allows their masters to continue to doing what they are doing – carving up more and more of the economic pie for themselves.
Does this mean that petrol will be cheaper? Because I’ll vote for whoever makes that possible.
How could it possibly do anything but make fuel more expensive? They might just as well increase the sales tax on fuel , it will be paid by the end user either way.
D J S
Today was supposed to be NZ Car Free Day – I wonder who dreamt that one up, but out and about in my car, I didn’t see any less. I said to my wife that I wondered if EV’s got an exemption, but she said I was talking gibberish……
Correction, ” World car free day”, but I take your point.
Tax the Greedy.
Tax them hard, and help remove that sin from their souls.
As a Christian, may I remind other Christians that the poor of heart are as much as our concern as those who live in poverty of wealth.
The Greedy, need our iron hand to cut them asunder.
If you were able to do this it would be the demise of the ACT party.
OK let’s assume climate change is a thing. So, what’s your plan?
How are you going to eliminate the use of fossil fuels? How will we replace bitumen on the roads, the epoxies that hold airplanes together, your car dash, its tyres, the headlight lenses, the bumpers, the car paint? Your clothes? the keyboard I’m typing on? The bus seat upholstery, the fibreglass ferry hulls, your bicycle tyres, etc? And all the millions of other things that comprise modern life?
I’m not going to hold my breath while waiting for an answer.
We won’t have cars in the not to distant future, by 2050 I’m guessing, bearing in mind that there is not enough resources in the world to power the UK vehicle fleet, let alone the rest of the world. Henceforth, something will have to give and that will be our cars. It is public transport for us all very soon, and or those little scooter things that will be limited to a certain amount of distance per day at that.
There are a lot of little gems in the solutions for climate change that the moneyed class has in store for us. It pays that people get up to speed with what they have planned for us all. The World Economic Forum and their near endless array of plans for us minions is something that we should all become familiar with.
OK so we’re all going to be herded on to public transport.
What’s going to power the public transport?
What will power the glass factory that makes the windows on the public transport?
Where will the lubricants come from for its wheel bearings?
What will replace the plastic foam in the seats and the plastic upholstery?
Even the hop cards are plastic. Or will we have wooden ones in the future? LOL
You are asking the wrong question. The question you should be asking if we are being herded or coerced into radically changing our lives, the question you should be asking is – is climate change of the humanity threatening variety really real or not? Lets get the climate experts for and the climate experts against, debating this all important question, out in the open, debating the legitimacy, or not, of climate change. These should be broadcast, global level debates because we are all being asked to sacrifice our way of life. Serious!
It is high time that such drastic change is met with the public examination that it duly warrants. Lets get it all out in the open…let us decide the path(s) we choose based open the information that these types of open debates will engender. Lets prove that democracy means more than just voting every few years. Lets put the will of the people back into democracy!
We just came back from a trip up north. The money being spent on the roads says it all. We are not giving up fossil fuels in the foresee able future.
D J S
no andrew let’s not ‘assume’ climate change is a thing ‘shapiro-isms’ don’t wash, because look around you climate change, adverse weather events call ’em what you will IS a thing
We have pollution and environmental issues galore, but we do not have humanity threatening climate change. And don’t let day to day weather events fool you when climate is the study of weather over long periods of time….
and don’t you fall in to the trap of palming each one off as ‘unique’ AO….
We have a paradox, no fossil fuel then everything we do, everything, is in jeopardy. Use the fuel and because of depletion everything we do is in jeopardy. Use it and.. did we mention climate change.
This is not a BAU versus green save the planet with electric bikes event. This is a crisis that has no alternative energy / renewable energy saviour. What we need to do is work out the transition back to horse power and similar. If we can do 1900s we will be doing well. I’m not asking you to hop aboard, you are coming whether you want to or not.
Thanks Nick. Youv,e obviously been studying or understand Physics as applied to energy. If you want to go faster than a horse you need fossil fuel. No way around it. Must of us are ignorant of this FACT. Reduced energy consumption is our only way around this.
This is the crux of the matter innit.
Anything ‘green’ is based on fossil fuel. And we have no replacement for the fossil fuel, and the waste from these ‘green’ incentives is going to be worse then that of the fossil fuel driven machineries. Those ‘green’ batteries are pure poison.
I doubt if ‘green’ is worse than fossil. Equally as bad I,d say. Reduced energy consumption is the only way out.
how are you going to deal with the waste of the dead batteries? What goes into making these batteries? Or is this another time where rich nation outsource their pollution – pollution created to make the little gadgets that the rich nations so like – to poor countries? Out of sight out of mind?
Who should reduce their energy consumption? the rich – when they no longer can afford it? or you and me immediately because we can’t afford it at all? Think, human, put your thinking hat on. think.
It takes 250,000 Kgs of raw materials to make a single car battery. All that needs to mined, shipped, and then manufactured (using energy, a lot of it fossil fuel based). These batteries last just 10 years before they need to be replaced (at huge expense – so much so that the car is basically a right-off once the battery dies) and cannot be economically recycled (i.e. it costs more to recycle a dead battery than make a new one from scratch).
Problem is Nick J; if you want to go back to a single horsepower and 1900 living standards you will need to cull 7 billion people. You cannot go back to 1900 energy consumption with a population 8 times greater than the 1900 population levels.
Saving the planet has always been, and is 100% reliant on population decrease. Problem is that not many are keen to be part of the 7 billion required to be culled to go back to 1900 population figures.
Look a this population growth chart enabled by fossil fuel energy. How to remove that fossil fuel energy that allows 8 billion people to occupy the planet, without a population cull, is the question.
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/
Everything you say is correct Gerrit, except “if you want to go back to 1900”. You describe the likely outcomes, I’m merely Cassandra stating the issue. I’d describe it like being behind the wheel on a clifftop one lane road when a truck comes round the corner. You can crash head on, or you can fall over the cliff. At the moment we haven’t even hit the brakes, and are pretending to have not seen the truck.
The counter argument to population control is that the more people we have, through the sheer numbers, the greater chance we have for someone smart enough to solve these issues to come along.
What if this population control reduces the chance of the next Albert Einstein, Michaelangelo, Galileo or Plato to come along and help us leap ahead in our understanding of the universe? I’ve often thought about this with abortion as well, what if the featus just removed from the womb was going to be the person who was going to solve climate change?
I know you’re not advocating to cull the population but it’s ironic that only those who are alive are suggesting it, and if they are really serious that there’s to many people, there is a simple solution that they can use to lead by example.
I am not a climate denier but I am a realist.z Covid gave us a taste of wath will happen to our economy and many other countries without tourists spending new money .Then there is the prospect of less tax from both wage earners nd businesses.Even the banks will not be in profit if Noone can afford to do anything. Many banks folded in the last great depression and some got close in 2012.
At some stage EV cars are going to have to pay their way as they cannot continue o us the roads built by the tax from petrol and then they may not be so attractive .In Canada the cost of power has gone up to such an extent it is nearly as dear as petrol
” The speed with which Jacinda simply shots the idea down and watching James Show having to humiliatingly mumble thoughts and prayers ”
And again Bomber as if you really need convincing your amazing PM who ( as the best one’s always do shine with an international audience ) and saved us during the pandemic only to now be at risk from a over heated planet is just another agent for keeping the status quo in place and you use the word caution to describe this rabble masquerading as a Labour party to consider doing anything that might upset or alarm the Kiwi business mafia and its enablers…meanwhile the planet burns eh.
We need a new movement before it is to late. Yeah actually I think that boat has sailed and sunk.
Poor Jacinda must be so upset that the Iranian women are protesting wearing the oppressive hijab. Jacinda is a fan of the headwear as we all know. She set back equality years after her selfish act.
too right Dilema. You speak the truth . Appalling act of cultural ingratiation. I reckon the suffragettes would have been spinning in their graves.
Disgraceful to use the misery of others to score political points.
I’ve noticed National MP’s in parliament using the misery of others to score political points in parliaments, it is the lowest form of low, gutter politics, disgraceful.