By leaning into Economic Justice Solidarity, Greens overcome Social Justice Alienation
I don’t give 3 shits that there was a mistake in the Greens budget.
It was rectified within 24 hours and the message is still the same – TAX THE FUCKING RICH!
I believe this may be the last chance in NZ to reset the rigged and corrupt tax system and provide the public services our society relies upon.
What the Greens have proposed isn’t envy! It’s a revulsion of the cost of greed crisis!
Shouldn’t there be a Billionaire Tax for being an arsehole?
Rich arseholes lecturing the poor on how to be hungry while charging them for toys? Nick is like Willy Wonka if Willy Wonka hated kids.
In NZ the Mordor of Oligarchy has infected our Shire as well!
Look at how that money is donated politically in NZ:
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Party donations concentrated at top incomes:
In recent elections, ~60 % of total political donations came from businesses and individuals earning in the top tax brackets, while lower-income donors account for a small share. -
Lobbying prevalence:
Corporate and industry groups (banks, property developers, dairying sector) are among the most active lobbyists in Wellington, shaping tax, housing, and planning policy.
The Big Polluters, the Billionaire Class, the Corporate’s and the speculators own NZ Politically!
Look at how the biggest polluters were able to secretly buy their interests with National.
The Oligarchs are here not to liberate us, but to enslave us!
You should be angry, New Zealand capitalism is a rigged trick for the rich and powerful. The real demarcation line of power in a western democracy is the 1% + their 9% enablers vs the 90% rest of us!
Do not allow their smears of ‘Envy’ to dilute the righteous rage you should all be feeling!
There’s no point making workers pay more to rebuild our resilience, tax the rich!
By leaning into Economic Justice Solidarity, Greens overcome the Social Justice Alienation that has driven so many young men into the arms of the reactionary right.
I have almost been alone on the Left as a critic against the pure temple politics of woke dogma.
Fourth wave feminists, non-binary activists and middle class identity politics are great at free-the-nipple vegan mommy blogger militant cyclist rallies, not so good at challenging the neoliberal economic hegemony.
By turning to the solidarity of Economic Justice as opposed to the hashtag minefield of social justice, the Greens are offering what the electorate desperately wants, Left universal populism, not bitter fights over pronouns.
Greens to get my party vote, Labour my electorate vote(only because an electorate vote for the green would likely lead to National getting the seat.)
Regardless of our electorate vote, ALL of us should party vote GREEN!
Give them enough clout in parliament to force Labour leftwards!
Yes Martyn, it’s now or never for NZ! Every voter in NZ needs to step up, vote for Fairness, Equality, and look after our lovely country. There is more than enough to go around, it’s just all going to the avaricious, who have set up a system that has brought NZ to its knees. We are not a poor country but any money generated is going into scurrilous places and being mis-used for personal gain. The rate of bankruptcy, liquidation etc. and the excessive amounts owed to our IRD, which we all have to pay in the end, are disgraceful. Anyone in debt to IRD should have a stop put on their business immediately until they fall into line. If I owed IRD $2k they would hound me and even take it from my bank account! One rule for the privileged and another for the real people! We also need a limit to party donations – they are now obscene and show exactly who is donating and who is benefitting – certainly isn’t the country or the NZ public! And Banks, don’t get me started on this one – time they paid their way – another greedy, grasping industry. And I don’t give a stuff if you are male, female, trans, bi-sexual etc. you are still a human-being and deserve respect whatever your views and preferences. What a HUGE MESS there is to clean up, so best to start it now with a new broom instead of CoC’s ‘copy and paste’ approach.
I think that the IRD is fair in the way it deals with late payments as immediately stopping business for a late payment would create other problems. The issue is those who provide a service that involves supplying materials and employing people who treat the employer deduction and material cost as their spending money instead of making sure that those obligations are paid. The old saying about not getting blood out of a stone applies and the entitlement of some means that they should not be allowed a business although they also tend to blame others instead of accepting that they were wrong, just like our current government.