Christopher Luxon is standing by National’s tax policy after analysis found the party may have miscalculated how much it will cost.
New analysis by the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions (CTU) found the cost of the National Paty’s tax threshold changes has blown out by $1.5 billion to a total of $8.2 billion over four years.
The CTU is completely right, there is a $1.5billion hole in National’s tax plan, unfortunately ACT have the solution!
The policy difference between Labour and the Greens is almost 90% the same, but the policy difference between National and ACT are light years apart.
With ACT in double digits, they are a constant existential threat to National and because Luxon is so weak, he will agree to any of the crazy far right policy ACT want to implement and it is far right nonsense on meth.
- A billion into more prisons and detention camps
- Near flat tax fantasy
- Amputation of 5 Ministry’s plus closing the Human Rights Commission plus billions slashed from welfare plus a referendum to rewrite the Treaty with no negotiation to Māori.
- Destroy Gun register so gun fetishists can legally masturbate to their favourite guns again.
It’s libertarian gibberish with culture war dog trumpets thrown in for shits and giggles, but as we saw with Liz Truss when she attempted to implement the same types of free market bullshit in the UK, the Market itself revolted.
If ACT and National attempted to implement half of this policy platform it would lead to vast civil disobedience on top of the Markets doing the exact same thing to NZ that they did to the UK.
ACT intend to cover National’s $1.5billion hole with State wide amputations, I do not believe most voters comprehend the sheer scale of cuts a National/ACT Government represents.
Increasingly having independent opinion in a mainstream media environment which mostly echo one another has become more important than ever, so if you value having an independent voice – please donate here.
If you can’t contribute but want to help, please always feel free to share our blogs on social media
CTU never,on principle,going to agree with National/Act figures.
Quote quote quote of the week.
Sheesh bob, so much for math. And you know using a calculator.
But as always all you got is one silly straw-man after another.
A fool with a calculator,statistics, statistics.
Pleased I’ve won quote of the week.
Thanks.
The failing N.Z.C.T.U. is now dominated by cheerleaders for the Clintonite liberals inside New Labour.
They aren’t even interested in winning back the reforms they themselves won (but then catastrophically failed to defend in the mid-1980s).
But Luxon agreed with CTU.
Bob is a little simple, give him some leeway..
Thanks as always Bert your attention,appreciated.
ADHD can do that to a child.
Thanks for recognising my youth.
BTF never, on principle, going to accept mathematics that prove Luxon thought the economy was a section of the plane that one avoids as an airline executive.
Yes up the front please much more pleasant.
1.5 billion is nothing especially when it’s only talk and affects no one.
Last week the Govt missed by 7 billion and that does affect everyone, even a lot who have yet to be born.
One is worth serious mention but as usual the media in NZ will ignore that in favour of being overly dramatic about a nothing instead.
If the model the Govt is following for the gun register is NZ’s future then yes bin it quickly and save the billion dollars the Canadians have spent so far to get only an estimated 35% of the weapons they reckon are out there. I’d far prefer less homelessness, better school outcomes and medical outcomes that billion bucks could give than a Register that will change absolutely not a thing.
Agreed, it’s just money wasted.
A few billion here or there a mere trifle to this Labour Government.
ACT’s got my vote.
Martyn – Human Rights Commission, and Race Relations Authority total failures over that hated filled Samoan “poet” showed what scam artists they are…fix it, or remove both of them
Remove them. Not fit for purpose.
Based on past history,( Steven Joyce) National are clueless with numbers, it’s more like a 2.5 billion dollar hole.
One thing we know for sure, the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions is trustworthy, copious amounts of evidence shows National isn’t.
$18,000 to Luxon per year
$ 104 to the poor per year
Oh yes National are certainly the party for the poor!
Poor people telling rich people about finance?
Who needs a tax cut?
Hipkins is so desperate to loose the election that he now says labour will look at tax cuts in the future!
+ ACT will throw 5 Ministry’s & HRC in it to fill it.
YES!
Health and education just to name two!!!
Comments are closed.