What the Christ is this new madness???
Public Works Act changes:’It will definitely make it a lot faster’
Infrastructure New Zealand is welcoming the government’s land acquisition incentive payments and a faster process for objections – but Labour says it wants to see more detail.
The changes to the Public Works Act, announced on Sunday, would see owners paid a bonus 5 percent of the land’s value – up to $92,000 – for acquisitions.
Those who chose to sell before a Notice of Intention would also get an extra 15 percent – up to $150,000 – on top of that, for a total of up to $242,000.
On the other hand, those who object – at least, for Roads of National Significance, or projects listed in Schedule 2 of the Fast-Track Approvals Act – will go to the Minister for Land Information or local authority rather than the Environment Court.
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Let me see if I can get this completely fucking straight.
The Government concoct a Fast Track list using a corrupted process that sees their Donors interests gain deregulation with little environmental oversight AND ON TOP OF THAT they will pay any effected landowners a sweetheart $242 000 sweetener to the deal ON TOP OF THE MINISTERS THEMSELVES being the ones who will ultimately decide if their seizing your land via a corrupted process is unfair???
Remember, we don’t have the money to not feed our children burnt plastic, but we do have millions for the Government’s pet donor projects?
What the fuck is it with the National Party always bribing you to do what they want?
Remember when Key sold 49% of the Hydro Power Stations and had to add sweeteners to the share sell off to make people buy them?
Key announces three-pronged sweetener for “Mums and Dads” in asset sales
July 22, 2012 (BusinessDesk) – Small-scale retail investors are being enticed three ways to participate in the government’s planned sale of minority stakes in four state-owned energy companies. Prime Minister John Key used his governing National Party’s annual conference in Auckland to announce a low $1,000 minimum holding threshold, a “no scaling back” provision for anyone investing $2,000 and a yet-to-be-determined loyalty bonus for hanging onto the shares for at least three years or so.
…when it’s hungry children, health, public services, they can all go fuck themselves, when it’s sweet heart deals for things their donors want however, there ain’t enough money in the world that National aren’t prepared to use to drown the problem.
You can’t all be this easily manipulated by this hard right Government?
Of course we want investment and infrastructure, but this is a facade being used to drive their donor mates interests NOT the common good!
They are willing to blow huge amounts of our money to get their mates interests sorted.
They know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
The poll results are telling us how deeply unpopular this culture war aggro has become because Kiwis in their hearts aren’t aggressive mean spirited arseholes the way ACT, NZF and National are behaving. We are a very laid back people and the needless cruelty alongside the energy to commit that needless cruelty is seen as trying too hard to be pricks.
National pouring millions to bribe their land seizures from a corrupted fast track process is something most Kiwis won’t see the fine print of, but they know try hard bullying when they see it.
Once you are seen as a try hard in NZ subculture, you are dead.
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So every farmer between Warkworth and Whangarei will get an extra 240k to sell a few acres to build the new holiday hiway for jaffas .SO thats probably an extra 2 .4 billion before one shovel of dirt is shifted .Thats on top of the 30 billion it will end up costing .Best we get those tax cuts back asap .
I had to re watch this>>> https://youtu.be/h57AnGSq88A?si=0xPapTu5nC-BV1ne
Nicola promised surplus in 2027. And year one 700 million surplus.
Yeah – it was bullshit. But even stupider, the government does not always need to be in surplus and most of the time it shouldn’t be. If the government is in surplus, it is taking more money out of the economy in taxation than it is putting new money into the economy through government spending, i.e. it is shrinking the economy, not growing it. This is all down to the fallacious analogy that the government’s books are like a household’s. They’re not.
The war against Maori is being paid on the state level apparently from all the bitching, and the war is what? 60 billion dollar deficit increase under National? We are dealing with a budget that is around a hundred billion and is comprised of a lot of wasted money on pork projects.
The Lord knows we could probably fund health education and defence and still have money for tax cuts if there was some magic we could use to get rid of the not needed pork.
Winston has to call a snap election.
The weirdest part of PPP’s is that they are much more expensive then just funding infrastructure directly as a capital expense. The government can claim lower levels of debt but the ultimate cost and burden on the economy is much greater. PPP’s are essentially a gift to investors who get a government guaranteed return on their money and the costs fall onto the private sector. It’s not a saving for taxpayers despite the rhetoric.
I have twice been taken to the Environment Court by agencies which in the name of “economic progress” sought to restrict the environmental protections which I had extended over the land. Neither action was successful, and nearly a million dollars of public money has been expended on litigation which could have been avoided by a negotiated compromise involving no cost to the state.
To my mind this has been a huge waste of resources. The state does not need to buy compliance and it cannot compel obedience. For the state, good faith, honesty, integrity and commitment to the well-being of Papatuanuka and tangata motu is all that is required. These are qualities that the New Zealand state should be cultivating. The proposed legislation will take it in the other direction.
So, people have to forfeit their land for PPPs and the overseas investor makes money from this policy this doesn’t seem right.
It is called getting thinks done not letting progress be stopped by groups who would like us to stay in the dark ages
You thing so?
Jesus Trevor, you even sound like Luxon.
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