Luxon is simply not being honest at all with his tax cuts & that should concern you as a voter
I know, I know, I know.
Everyone is pissy with Jacinda, everyone is angry, everyone wants to look for a political alternative, but I fear the sudden swing to Luxon is utterly misplaced and he as a candidate is deeply flawed.
Luxon is simply not being honest about his tax cuts and that should concern you as a voter.
National have no idea what policy they will cut to fund their tax cuts, they haven’t been able to show any journalist how they square that circle and when pushed for actual details, National have none.
National are selling Luxon on his self certainty, not his command of policy.
Luxon is an evangelical Christian who believes in prosperity theory, that means his 7 properties are evidence Jesus has blessed him. It is this self-certainty of Christ’s favour that National are selling to an uneasy and frightened electorate, not Luxon’s mastery of policy.
Luxon cares about the passengers in first class and when he wants to get down with the workers, he chats to the Pilots and first class cabin crew.
People who can’t fly are bottom feeders.
National have no fucking idea how to get NZ out of the post pandemic damage and are relying on nothing more than economic pain to get the rest of us to vote for them.
Riding resentment when you have nothing else to offer isn’t a solution and we can’t reward National while punishing Labour when National have even less to offer.
If you think National are the solution, you are part of the problem.
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What’s even worse for ordinary Kiwi is that David Seymour has plenty of ideas. They have been well listed on this site before and none of them are good news.
ACT is the solution.
You mean final solution?
Will “None of the Above” ever be included on the ballot form?
Labeen and Natz seem to have very similar neoliberal polices such as selling off state house land.
The really sad thing is most of them (in Labour) truly believe they’re doing good.
I excuse Jacinda for many reasons but there are some of her colleagues that have no bloody excuse for what they’re doing.
Aside from MSD and their responsible Munster(s), probably the worst fuckup is the Munstry for Everything which has something I know is close to your heart @ SaveNZ. (INZ et al)
It JUST GETS WORSE the more you keep an eye on it. It has created its own set of refugees and exploited workers. Muppetry in Motion unfortunately, because it has some serious worker bees that deserve better.
One of its worst muppets (just as an example) that had a large control freak hand in the who MIQ booking system fuckup has now moved on to the glory of ACC and all its case load ills…… Sure – it/her/he has its set of worshippers on LinkedIN and elsewhere (mainly because they’re aspirational and wanting to climb the career ladder), but we’d do well to adopt the Australian 501 policy when it comes to some senior public servants.
And I’ll bet it/she/him probably has no fucking idea of the carnage it/she/him has caused. Nor its/her/his cargo cultist hapless Munster.
Even IF it/she/he did – just so long as it/his/her fundamentals are intact in that space going forward, they’re not going to be worried. As things stand, they know there’ll be a ‘soft landing’, but the the natives appear to be getting really really restless.
They really do take the award – if you’re into rankings. (I usually start with the damage to the human species as an immediate problem before we start on things like NZTA and other stuff)
I don’t think voters will necessarily switch camps. They’ll just do a no show at the polling booth. Or vote Winston.
But National will;
Inflict fiscal discipline. Chains and whips discipline!
They will cut taxes to the well off.
They will then cut emaciated budgets that have barely improved under useless Labour such as health, law and order, education, public broadcasting, public transport and conservation.
They will build highways.
They will “gift” Kainga Ora to charity. Labours mismanagement of it as a landlord makes this very easy.
Potentially privatise some health services.
They will quit the pretence of climate change.
Although they’re running out of things to sell because previous governments and Labour have beaten them to it, Air NZ, again, the rest of the power companies, and DOC land.
You don’t have to be Nostradamus to predict this. National are that predictable!
Unfortunately talk-back back radio determines the swing vote in nu zilin.
That’s where this message would be better pushed.
The election won’t be about honesty in utterances about tax cuts.
In the same way as Muldoon said “Reds under the bed,” and many shuddered and clasped him to their bosom, there’ll be a few key other words.
“Three Waters” will have some going spare. The sound of “theft of local resources,” the “no local input, control or power,” and the claims of “the average household will end up paying $9,000 a year in water charges,” will be significant.
“He Puapua”? That and “co-governance” will be thousands of bridges too far. The reds under the beds can be “gangs.”
Haven’t even got onto poverty, housing and mental health.
National serving up another helping of tax cuts again. Not very original. Does that come with side of GST increase and a extra large of flogging off state assets?
“National have no idea what policy they will cut to fund their tax cuts…”
Wrong. National know exactly which policies they’ll be cutting to fund their tax cuts. They’re just avoiding telling people because they know they’ll be deeply unpopular.
Is National going to continue to forget New Zealand signed the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights – or are they going to ensure affordable housing and access to medical treatment before they cut taxation?
Just like Labour has .There are plenty of government activities that could be cut to save money without touching the core function of a good government.
I think Luxon is out of his depth when it came to becoming a National MP and then its leader. But there is the foul odour of John Key somewhere in the background of Luxon and National. Luxon bringing back Bill English is highly suspect.
Luxon is a walking and talking contradiction. He just doesn’t realise that contradicting himself and protecting his rich maters doesn’t mean he will get votes from the low paid.
Unfortunately the other ridiculous leader in the Opposition i.e David Seymour; also leaves alot to be desired.
Both ACT and National have Zero policies worth considering. If there are any they are a repeat of the failed policies of National in the past.
Now we all know National and ACT hate having to admit they are failures because that would render them human. Instead what National and ACT have in huge quantities is arrogant and a superiority complex that shows how out of touch with reality both political parties are.
In 2008 I stupidly voted for National and John Key. Little did I know until shortly after the 2008 that the pre-election promises that John Key would be so quickly broken once he became prime minister of New Zilland(as he called this country).
So as each day takes us closer to the election in 2023 and where-ever any of us will be I hope we do not allow a political party like National back in as a government because we can be well assured National will not give a toss about the low income workers of NZ.
No. Instead we will have to keep in mind that Luxon would still view us low income hard workers of this country as Bottom Feeders.
“In 2008 I stupidly voted for National and John Key. Little did I know until shortly after the 2008 that the pre-election promises that John Key would be so quickly broken once he became prime minister of New Zilland(as he called this country).”
A hair tugging liar then?
I voted for National in 2008 not so much for Key but against Clarke who I had voted for the previous time. I was turned off Labour as they tried to control every move and stopped taking notice of the voters. I see this happening again as Labour press on with 3 Waters schools will no introduce masks Little insults nurses and makes training midwife pay or their study dispite huge shortages
I did the same thing back in 2008, so don’t feel bad about that, a lot of us got sucked in.