National Government Austerity has created hollow budgets – why it will get worse in 2025

The Right Wing Redneck ZB Trolls be screaming that National’s budget is NOT an Austerity budget because the Government is borrowing more than Labour did.

Bullshit.

While National are technically borrowing more – IT IS FOR TAX CUTS AND LANDLORD TAX LOOPHOLES WE CANT AFFORD!

Take a look at the example of public health.

In the Budget, National allocated just 2.9% increase to health services but inflation was 3.3% and population growth 2.6% while an ageing population adds more to costs.

National gave 2.9% for health but we needed 8% to stand still, is the electorate dumb enough to fall for National’s latest manufactured public service crisis to introduce more failed free market reforms?

The Minister says we can’t afford $1.4billion for health but we could borrow $14billion for tax cuts, again is the electorate dumb enough to believe this?

I don’t think people appreciate just how radical our neoliberal reforms were to public services and no where can you see the grim truth of throwing out egalitarianism and progressive fairness for money and profit margins better than this brilliant Stuff article that highlights the terrible legacy of fucking over our public health system.

Look at these stats and gasp in horror at what we have wrought…

…people claim this can’t be true, but the facts stack it up and it is true.

We have progressively decreased taxing the richest to fund out public services until the public services fall over and the public scream ‘something must be done’ and the Right ‘here’s something’ and they privatise a little more and you get even less.

By underfunding public services and borrowing for tax cuts, the National Government Austerity Agenda has created hollow budgets and it is going to get far worse next year as the fall out from their Austerity agenda wrecks the economy.

The Political Right have traded in the common good for their donors interests.

There is an old saying in NZ politics, Labour is good for Capitalism, National is good for Capitalists.

Welcome to Crony Capitalism  and as our public services get eroded by cheap tricks and numbers, this Government enrich their mates at the collective cost of us all.

The ease with which the sleepy hobbits of muddle NuZilind are led to give the rich more while hurting the poor is a Kiwi super power.

Feel shame at how easily your post covid bitterness anger is manipulated by the Right at the last election Kiwi.

 

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