Firstly, setting submission dates on controversial legislation during summer break is an abuse of power which is ironic because the Regulatory Standards Bill is a ferocious abuse of power and flies in the face of what a functioning Democracy values.
ACT have tailored an economic straight jacket that will make it impossible to counter corporate interests ever again.
If this passes, Corporations will be able to stop any environmental or taxation policy they don’t like.
The radical nature of this should terrify every New Zealander. It is a break peddle for corporate interests and a gag for democratically elected change.
We require regulated capitalism not free market fantasies.
This is a blatant power grab by those fearful climate change will provoke electoral demands they don’t want to pay for!
Why on earth are we placing democratic break peddles on legislation the people have mandated by popular vote?
The Regulatory Standards Bill is an ideological vanity project that will have the real world impact of strangling off the popular will of the people!
Why on earth is this even being considered?
My recommendation is that this Bill be dumped immediately and reset to broaden the values beyond corporate and wealth interests.
NZs crony under regulated capitalism is forever being deregulated by donors to the Political Right (and at times the Left).
The dominant position the Supermarket Duopoly has built ensures they control the market and that the power of competition doesn’t allow for consumers to enjoy the fruits of capitalism. Their ability to introduce mass surveillance into their stores so they can exploit it highlights their total dominance.
Meanwhile migrant labour is being exploited and the lack of policing the existing rules by the Government is laid bare…
‘The system is f…..’: Immigration staff say bosses knew visa system didn’t work, and ignored it
…we can’t keep having under regulated capitalism fuelled by exploiting migrant labour that creates duopolies, monopolies and oligopolies!
We aren’t asking for sweeping new powers or over the top communism here, all we are looking for is the industry as it currently exists being properly policed!
Supermarket duopolies shouldn’t be screwing us because of a lack of competition, Migrant workers shouldn’t be getting exploited and the cost of housing should be brought down by increasing competition in the drainage industry!
There are basic solutions to all these issues, I’m not looking for socialism from the NZ Government, just basic regulated capitalism!
Max Harris’s work on a Green Ministry of Works is a step in the right direction…
Rising To The Challenge: A Ministry Of Green Works For Aotearoa
…alongside regulation that is actually policed we could reset our rigged Capitalism.
ACT and National are promising to gut MBIE because MBIE employs the people who regulate New Zealand’s poorly policed and under regulated capitalism!
27 000 Bosses were given the power to import migrant workers and exploit them, of that number only a handful have had their exploitation scams ended and that’s because there is no State policing the current regulations we have!
We see this time and time and time again, State regulators who are supposedly policing the under regulated markets with barely enough staff to look into anything at all!
Max Rashbrooke highlighted the horror of NZs under regulated market…
The bad news is that, to investigate 200,000-300,000 terrible rentals, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) has employed a frontline inspectorate numbering … 37. Each inspector will have to check somewhere between 5000 and 8000 rentals.
…there is only 37 inspectors of rental properties for 300 000 terrible rentals?
Similar poorly funded regulation is apparent in the 82 labour inspectorates who are supposed to police hundreds of thousands of migrant worker exploitations!
ACT and National’s bullshit dismantling of Capitalism’s police tells you all you need to know about the deregulated hellscape a National/ACT monstrosity would birth into this world!
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