Don’t get me wrong.
I love Ryan on The AM Show, he has that rare talent too listen to an answer and then unleash devastating question and he remains a far preferable TV offering than the grim TVNZ Breakfast show that continues to be a palace of tears since John Campbell left.
Ryan’s jaw dropping defence of rich people yesterday morning as he interviewed David Parker on the Tax report made David laugh while the rest of us turned away in shock.
There’s cheerleader for something, and then there is personal masseuse and Ryan went well beyond a personal masseuse, his nauseating defence of rich pricks in a country reeling from inequality was less journalism and more deep sexual fetish.
Eeeeew.
Ryan is either very rich, his family is very rich or he believes he’s going to be very rich one day and is standing up for his rich interests.
Double Eeeeeew.
The tax system is rigged for the rich!
We need a radical means to place the yoke of taxation onto those who are causing the most economic damage and greed – the Banks, the Corporates and Speculators!
This is why the Tax debate every fucking election is such a shallow and hollow joke. Labour says blah blah blah and National scream tax cut. They are both fighting over an ever diminishing pie!
It’s the Great NZ Tax Cut Scam that never actually fixes the problem!
The true political division in a Capitalist Democracy is not the colour of your skin or gender identity or genital tribalism, it’s between the 1% richest, their 9% enablers and the 90% rest of us!
Labour must think big on funding universal provision of services to survive the economic downturn and the new post-Covid reality in a climate warming world!
Let’s ensure taxation is targeted at the corporates and the wealthy while subsidising the costs of the poorest.
I present the 10 point Left wing Economic Justice Plan for Aotearoa New Zealand.
1: Feed every kid in NZ a free nutritious and healthy breakfast and lunch at every school using local product and school gardens with parents paid to come in and help, seize 30% of the supermarket industry and directly inject competition from the State.
2: 50 000 State Homes for life built using the best environmental and social architecture standards using the public works act to seize land and immediately start building satellite towns using upgraded public transport hubs using a new ministry of Green Works to build them.
3: Free public transport plus vast infrastructure upgrade for climate crisis.
4: Doubling welfare payments and student allowances minus any bullshit claw backs from MSD plus Living Wage universally adopted as minimum working wage plus implementation of all WEAG recommendations.
5: GST off food and essentials like tampons, toilet paper, condoms, oral health.
6: Free Dental services for everyone through public health.
7: Debt cancellation – student loans, welfare overpayments, beneficiary debt, easier debt cancellation.
8: Renter Rights – (rent freezes, end accomodation payments, long term tenancy arrangements)
9: Buy out houses that can’t be saved, look at universal insurance for climate change events to cover those with no insurance, survival packs in every home, solar panels on every roof, vast increase in Civil Defence equipment, social licence of essential service resilience.
10: Properly funded public broadcasting with TVNZ advert free and merged with RNZ alongside properly funded journalism through NZ on Air with more money for the Arts and Science. If you can’t have good public journalism, the right wing media will destroy these other 9 advances.
Don’t tell me we can’t afford any of this because we can if the wealthy are taxed!
There are 14 Billionaires in NZ, and 3118 ultra-high net worth individuals, let’s start with them, then move onto the Banks, then the Property Speculators, the Climate Change polluters and big industry.
There’s no point making workers pay more to rebuild our resilience, tax the rich!
-Sugar Tax
-Inheritance Tax
-Wealth Tax
-Financial Transactions Tax
-New top tax rate on people earning over $300 000 per year.
-Capital Gains Tax
-Windfall profit taxes
-First $10 000 tax free
Capitalism is rigged, Democracy is supposed to have the moral authority to challenge that.
We need to be kinder to individuals and crueller to corporations.
Watching Ryan cheerlead these rich pricks tells you all you need to know about where The AM Show’s loyalties will be this election.
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Mr Bridges is a prize dodgepot.
He attacked “protestors” early in his on screen career which was rich given that openly gay people were subject to all manner of discrimination prior to Homosexual Law Reform.
Gay rights were obtained by protestors! Many straights marched in the 80s in support. It makes no odds if he has interview skills when he is another mouth for hire on behalf of the employing class.
Ryan Bridges looks out for Ryan Bridges. My feeling is that if anyone called him f—-t he would scream hate speech, but stay quiet for anyone else.
standalonecomplex – I got that feeling too about Ryan…self serving human being
He’s probably the best interviewer in the country.
Well he was made to look an idiot by Parker.
Your bum boy Hosking would disagree Dulwich boy.
Parker made a convincing point and he should be celebrated for his imagination to have this research done. He owned Ryan.
Now we all know that there is wealth inequality.
That those on high incomes pay the most tax.
That all who get an income pays tax.
That social benefits are mainly targeted at the poor.
Most importantly: That two apples plus two pears gives one four apples……….. shit now I am confused. Maybe Ryan did own Parker.
Fuck, you really do talk some special kind of shit.
Fabulous comments Johan you have stirred up standalone.
Bob the troll stirred up by standalone.
“Dogginess” is his job.
It is “dogginess” of Parker that should concern you.
His job is to not be doggy.
No, Tiger summed it up correctly, you continue to put your own dogginess or spind on things Johan.
Parker was open and respectful. The fact you lean to the right meant you missed the rest of Tigers post on how Bridge ” attacks” the interviewee.
He needed a study to tell us that there are people who are wealthier than others. For real!
What next. He will do a study and tell us that there are people who are poor?
Gosh and Labour Government made the poor more poor.
Incorrect as usual Blob.
You dumb fuck. He did it as a precursor to a CGT. It’s coming he now has the proof.
For someone who posts a lot Johan you’re not that bright.
It’s Bridge, not Bridges.
Only 52 companies have been in the top 500 companies since 1955.
The top 10% and the bottom 90% is more fluid than one may think.
Government stays government. Whether the faces change or not. Governments of all kinds tax and spend. Focus on government and one may well achieve changes in outcomes. But focussing you anger on the wealthy will not change the behaviour of government.
One bridges too far.
Perhaps, but we get the picture.
Bridge or Bridges, neither of any use.
Bring back Bridges!
It was a train wreak interview for David Parker. There’s no one who can defend him for that interview, he couldn’t answer one question.
However we can all see through this modus operandi.
1. Ask for a report and set the parameters so you’ll only get one answer that you already know.
2. Use your media cabal to push the findings of said report to get the public onside in blaming a group of people for the worlds woes.
3. Use those media reports as ‘the people have spoken’ to hammer through laws you’ve talked about in your little working groups for years.
It’s Machiavellian politics 101
My God I think your eyes are stained blue. Parker completely owned Bridge. It was like a teacher to his 5 year old student. If Bridge went to a gun fight, why did he come armed with a knife?
Leave politics to the experts ffs!
Parker went in with wet gunpowder.
Revelation.
1. There are wealthy and poor people living in this country.
2. They pay tax.
3. The wealthy can afford to pay more tax before joining the poor.
4. Then we can all all feel the same about government.
Parker goes to a Gunfight with a Gun while Ryan came with a Rainbow flag!
Haha yes, Johan clearly not that bright.
Did the rest of us turn away in shock? Look, by being totally vague and dodgy about unrealized wealth details and definitions, Labour and Parker left themselves open to full criticism. Just like 3W. What is it with Labour? Are they chicken scared? Why not just come out and say “come next term there will be a wealth tax. It kicks in at 10million in assets or net worth.” So what…Just do this and get on with it and shut the fuck up. The rich won’t care nor will they escape to Monaco. We have much bigger problems by becoming less productive as a nation than bloody Zimbabwe or Chad. Next we’ll lose our credit rating and get dropped out of the OECD. Chippy had his chance right there and then but as always he chickened out. Chickkie Hipkins. Jacinda v2.
Noticed the same thing .
Bright and arrogant Ryan Bridge sides with the big end town every time .
He must eat out everyday – as he has platformed every whinging restaurant owner in NZ over the last 2 years and is currently running a campaign to bring in more foreign chefs. – cos priorities
He just challenged Parker on the assumption that wealth can be directly translated into income.
And Parker responded……………..don’t you get it?
I will paraphrase what he said. “Those with wealth need to hand their wealth over to those who need more income, because government will not facilitate this through taxation.”
Expect some additional income in your mailbox some time soon! Are you a betting person?
Well thats a different interpretation on the interview. I thought Parker answered his challenge perfectly.
But I guess we all see what we want to see.
So tell me what he said?
Opposite to what you said.
A CGT is just around the corner, expect that to be in your mailbox.
Our economy must be very buoyant if the government did not find the need to place a flooding levy (tax) on incomes over $80,000 on a progressive scale to help funding the recovery work.
They could even have decided to impose a once off wealth tax of 1% on anyone with accumulated wealth exceeding $500,000. Not sure how they will collect it. They ask NZers to make a voluntary contribution of 1% of their wealth and that the amount given can be deducted from taxable income over a five year period.
No they will borrow the money so that it can be collected as a broad based tax. Meaning: those on low incomes will help the wealthy to find the recovery. Fair? I would say yes.
Caring? No way.
So people get real.
Care before fairness. The wealthy gets richer on the back of the fairness argument. The poor stays poor as a result of fairness.
Well that sounds a bit double Dutch, you are Dutch South African aren’t you.
New Zealand is a wonderful place with its socialist values. This must be why you left Sth Africa right?
Not much care going on there.
The entire political system is rigged, its designed to suit donors. He with the biggest wallet gets the biggest say and all that.
Its why the rich get whatever the hell they want while those of us at the bottom get treated like scum.
The only way to fix it is to remove all 120 of those pricks, get rid of all the bureaucrats behind them, get rid of all the lobbyist organizations with easy access to politicians and start again with different rules.
Currently the only people able to change those rules are those getting these donations so zero chance of correction EVER.
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Psychopathic narcissist meaning.
If a person has psychopathic traits, then they tend to have narcissistic and Machiavellian traits too. People with these personalities can’t sense other people’s feelings or see the world from any perspective apart from their own. They don’t have a sense of conscience or guilt to stop them behaving immorally.
So yeah. The perfect representative for the Godless nouveau riche.
nouveau riche:
people who have recently acquired wealth, typically those perceived as ostentatious or lacking in good taste.
We will be dominated by the narratives of the likes of Ryan Bridges but there is an upside. That, only makes us stupid. Not nasty and evil.
Is Ryan Bridge standing for parliament?
That is a surprise.
I can’t think of any political party that would want him in their camp.
Newshub claims Ryan Bridge is a journalist: “Ryan Bridge is one of the hosts of AM on Three. Ryan is a former Newshub TV reporter and RadioLIVE political reporter”.
there should be an on screen banner that says ‘rightwing commentator’ because he’s not a fuckin journalist.
Ryan was challenging the notion put forward by Parker re unrealised capital gains.
They are a paper gain.
Whereas, Parker sees them as a gain and is suggesting they can be taxed.
Voters were/are largely divided over the suggestion of a CGT which taxes realised gains. Therefore, attempting to sell them a tax that taxes unrealised gains is likely to be far less popular.
Silly Parker opens this door for public debate yet fails to provide further details. As usual, leaving a void for the opposition and vested interests to full with assumptions that will further scare and put off voters.
TC. I agree with you completely. I tried to comment but couldn’t get it past the moderator.
The Chairman you are correct.
I’m hoping Parker has scared off the voters.
You live in hope Bob whilst the rest of us live in reality.
Parker has just gained thousands of more voters.
so many wannabe’s on the ladder to sucCess, the world is fucked.