Nationals 3 biggest donors (Hart, Mowbray and Bolton) have a combined net worth of 15 billion!
The Bottom 50% of NZ has 23 billion.
The top 5% of NZers own roughly 50% of NZs wealth, while the bottom 50% of NZers own a miserable 5%!
IRD proved NZ Capitalism is rigged for the rich and Bernard Hickey calculates that if we had a basic capital gains tax in place over the last decade, we would have earned $200billion in tax revenue.
$200billion would have ensured our public infrastructure wouldn’t be in such an underfunded ruin right now!
There are 14 Billionaires in NZ + 3118 ultra-high net worth individuals with over $50million each, why not start start with them, then move onto the Banks, then the Property Speculators, the Climate Change polluters and big industry to pay their fair share before making workers pay more tax!
Culture War fights make all the noise, but poor people aren’t sitting around the kitchen table cancelling people for misusing pronouns, they are trying to work out how to pay the bills!
Bread and Butter cost of living pressures are what the electorate want answers to, and that’s where the Left need to step up and push universal policy that lifts that cost from the people.
The Commerce Commission is clear that the Supermarket Duopoly should be broken up and the State should step in and provide that competition.
We need year long maternity leave.
We need a nationalised Early Education Sector that provides free childcare for children under 5.
We need free public transport.
We need free breakfast and lunches in schools.
We need free dental.
We need 50 000 new State Houses.
We need more hospitals, more schools and a Teachers aid in every class room.
We need climate change adaptation and a resilient rebuilt infrastructure.
We need all these things and we need to fund them by taxing the rich who the IRD clearly showed were rigging the system.
That requires political courage and there is none!
No one is willing to fight for tomorrow, they merely want to pacify the present!
Just promise me one thing.
Don’t. You. Dare. Vote. Early. In. 2023!
I can not urge this enough from you all comrades.
Don’t vote early in the 2023 election.
I’m not going to tell you who to vote for because this is a liberal progressive democracy and your right to chose who you want in the secrecy of that ballot box is a sacred privilege and is your god damned right as a citizen.
But what I will beg of you, is to not vote early in 2023.
Comrades, on our horizon is inflation in double figures, geopolitical shockwave after geopolitical shockwave and a global economic depression exacerbated by catastrophic climate change.
As a nation we will face some of the toughest choices and decision making outside of war time and that means you must press those bloody MPs to respond to real policy solutions and make those buggers promise to change things and you can’t do that if you hand your vote over before the bloody election!
Keep demanding concessions and promises for your vote right up until midnight before election day AND THEN cast your vote!
We only get 1 chance every 3 years to hold these politicians feet to the fire and they only care before the election, so force real concessions out of them before you elect them.
This election is going to be too important to just let politicians waltz into Parliament without being blistered by our scrutiny.
Demand real concessions from them and THEN vote on Election Day.
If the Left votes – the Left wins!
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I thought this election campaign won’t be too bad, there is the Rugby World Cup to distract me. The tournament is so bad, so drawn out its just a bunch of random games all in France. The best thing on TV at the moment is the daily summary of the ChrisChris show where 2 men travel around NZ pretending to like ordinary people.
Nothing will convince me as a life long working class Labour voter to endorse the last 6 years by voting for them and by default the Greens. Nothing.
True Labour left the building a long time ago.
Hear hear
The quality of the Candidates and the Poor Choices available at this 2023 General Election actually makes me cringe and worry about the future of this country which was been Rat F**ked over the past 30-40 years, by the likes of Roger Douglas, Richard Prebble etc. Even the haggard old Winston Peters of NZF is looking plausable these days compared to the other riff raff on offer from the other Parties.
This election seems a bit of a lottery anyway at the moment, so it makes little odds when you vote given that NZ Labour has refused to move on a wealth tax. Green or TPM is the choice for old school leftists, and for entertainment we can watch Act and NZ First bricking themselves as some voters at least have realised how nutty and divisive their candidates and policies are.
Vote early & often.
ACT now!
ACT now!
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You prefer to vote for the coalition of chaos for more of the same? For more non consensual shafting without lube? No thank you!
Labour had 2 x3year terms and have achieved a divided country racked by crime and inflation huge rent increases and housing shortage and priced out of the reach of most and you want them back .No way they don’t deseve
So who should we have Trevor – the ship is due to sail – do we go on the Titanic that looks good from the outside and promises much, or the little tramp steamer that is dirty and rusty and promises to get us to the fabled shore to which we travel, which we eye doubtfully. You are full of it Trevor – but keep calm and carry on with your painful assertions of what we expect and should have.
Ignore the ships and fly across the Tasman in a plane. That’s the option many people are currently eyeing up.
My partner said with Luxons tax cuts he will be able to buy himself a pie every week for lunch.
Or some bronzer for his shiny bonce, so it does not reflect so much at those that partake of the media channels.
Yes, Trev and three of those years they were driving the vehicle with the handbrake on, it’s called Winstone.
The new message the Daleks trumpet as they whirl around in stress and turbulence is NOT now Exterminate! – but CONSIDER, CONSIDER, CONSIDER!!
Better – make like one of our lovely Jersey or Holstein Friesian Cows instead of Daleks; chew your cud and RUMINATE, Ruminate, Ruminate!
Hey Pete if you watch Nationals flash ads on TV they don’t feature ordinary people they are very glossy expensive marketing spin. And the message conveyed does not match the spin, for example a dog being fed by a young girl who lives in a flash house and has a fridge full of expensive food with a fruit bowl full to the top. When some dummies are moaning about GST of fruit at a time when many New Zealand families can’t afford to buy fruit.
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