Now we own Kiwibank, make it the Government’s bank & let’s hit banks with windfall tax & financial transaction tax
You know the 1% are nervous about their money when a Government move launches a tsunami of negative critiques.
When rich white men be shrill, you should take note…
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…goodness aren’t they frightened by the Government stepping in and backing Kiwibank to the hilt?
They should be frightened.
We need a bank for our own economic sovereignty, we are already molested and damaged by the big Aussie Banks who are reaping billions in monopoly rentals from NZ.
What these shrill rich white man voices all tsk tsking about a New Zealand owned Bank fear is that the sleepy hobbits of muddle NuZilind might wake up and demand some more economic sovereignty and focus on the exceptional greed of the Australian Banks.
This country is built economically upon stealing Māori land and never paying it back, exploitation of migrant workers to ensure a low wage de-unionised economy and the criss-crossing old boys network of monopolies and duopolies that dominate NZ industry.
Normally this crony capitalism goes unnoticed because everyone is benefitting, but with Covid killing free market capitalism and the climate crisis interrupting the economy, people are stressed out and frightened and feeling poorer.
Suddenly the exploitative nature of NZs under regulated free market is under scrutiny like never before.
Why are we paying international prices for Dairy that is produced in this country using a monopoly?
Why are the Supermarket Duopolies killing us on food prices as food inflation explodes?
Why has the Medical Cannabis oligarchy market failed?
Why did the Gib board market fail?
And why the fuck are the Banks taking billions in profits while we suffer?
It’s time the Government had the balls to do what it’s supposed to fucking do!
REGULATE CAPITALISM!
The great jackboot of the State is constantly on the throats of the little people and the taxation yoke is pulled by them when the jackboot of the State should be on the throats of the powerful and rich with the taxation yoke lifted from workers onto corporates!
We need to be kinder to individuals and crueller to corporations!
What these shrill rich man voices screaming about Kiwibank want to avoid is any examination of how the Banks fuck us.
Yes Government should buy and own and back Kiwibank and here is a list of other things that should be done to ensure NZs economic sovereignty in an age of geopolitical shockwaves which will demand more local infrastructure be it energy, pharmaceuticals, an expanded military, more manufacturing AND our own Bank!
- Take the Government contract for its banking needs from Westpac and give it to Kiwibank to boost our own.
- Open a KiwiBank branch in every town in NZ alongside other public services and use it as a community hub as well as banking.
- KiwiBank launch new flexible mortgage platforms for owner occupier first time home buyers that is Government backed AND offers to take any stressed out first time home buyers from other banks who are threatening to take them to a mortgage sale.
- Windfall tax on bank profits.
- Financial transaction tax that makes so much money from speculators and the super rich that it allows us to lower GST to 10%.
The Australian Banks have had it too good for too long, as late stage capitalism continues to implode and crash, we need new ways of ensuring our independence and self reliance.
Being at the mercy of Australian Banks in an under regulated market ripe for annual plunder is not a fucking economic policy!
We need to start regulating these monopolies and duopolies and oligopolies because that’s the job of a Government in a democracy, to regulate capitalism so that its benefits are harvested and shared by everyone, not just by those making obscene profits at our collective expense!
Fuck these rich pricks and their rigged casino!
If there is a Labour/Green/Māori Party Government, you best believe that this drive to regulate and redistribute the vast wealth of these structures to the people they rely on for a market will happen!
Expect to hear a lot more shrill rich white voices screaming the end of Western Civilisation as this political reality begins to dawn upon them.
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What rate of interest are you proposing for home loans?
Below, at or above the OCR?
Is the money going to be printed out of thin air, or will the bank still need to go and borrow from the open market?
It’s well known in banking circles Kiwibank has been poorly run for years. A real opportunity missed. They have had opportunities to exploit the major banks as a point of difference by opening or at least not closing branches when the big 4 did but they closed them anyway.
You can’t even use paywave in Post Shops who owned Kiwibank because it doesn’t exist. WTF?
But my fear is, as is everything with Labour, they will lose their way quickly generally because they have no idea what they’re doing and this buyout will become a taxpayer millstone. As with migrant exploitation, Labour capitulated this week after standing firm and opened the door back to the status quo.
The government needs a minister who has some idea what they’re doing and whose sole job it is to oversee this venture, (not a Minister of everything), to employ the best, leave these experts to run this as they see fit with an open cheque IF they want this bank to fly. Otherwise forget it!
The thing is Labours track record does not bode well for this purchase!
An old school TDB post I can relate to. Nationalising Kiwi Bank is obviously a good idea–but–the Aussie bank billion dollar profit export offshore per quarter has to be pinged to make it meaningful.
Bullet points are good too including a branch in every town. Try dealing even with Kiwibank on a weekend if an ATM has swallowed your card, not a happening thing. Service needs an upgrade asap.
A whole programme of reconstituted public ownership of infrastructure is there for a truly progressive Govt. that has the guts to ditch the NZ neo liberal Parliamentary consensus. A revived Ministry of Works, bye Fulton Hogan. Publicly owned and controlled power generation and supply, bye Contact Energy etc. and so on.
lol OK buddy.
You forget that a serious government can just MAKE or TAKE the money. Pity Ardern won’t do it.
A bank creating money out of thin air, is NOTHING like trying to run a railways (or any other REAL) business.
That is a strawman arguement personified.
I sincerely hope you’re joking @ Martyn. I’m afraid it’s going to take an election loss (possibly a complete rout) before that can happen. People are going to have to be shuffled off into jobs at the U.N, or corporate America , or other little gigs in failing colonising nayshuns.
Maybe at some point, “in this space, going forward”, New Zealand Aotearoans are going to be allowed to be part of ‘officials’ advice’. Currently, those officials – don’t usually have Chinese sounding names, more often British and Okker sounding accents), and they’re equipped with the rhubarb Pols and Meerkatting buzz. Apparently it’s “best practice”. Actually its lazy, unimaginative, learned (polly wanna cracker, parrot-fashion) practice).
No, it’s going to have to take a couple more election cycles.
Meanwhile, Labour appear to be on a mission to alienate everyone in their traditional base. Teachers, Nurses, labourers, lower level public servants, various diaspora (particularly SouthEast Asian and those from the Indian subcontinent, refugees……)
Not to be conspiratorial, but you have to ask WHY?
Today’s positive note, Labour sends a mealy-mouthed warning (sort of), to the supermeerkat duopoly.
Fuck it’s pathetic!
Ok Frank.
Privateer Michael Fay ran privatised NZRail into the ground lied about its value and sold out and ended up in court for insider trading. The business had to be bailed out by the government.
The privatised AirNZ was mismanaged and had to be rescued by the government. Fortunately it was picked up for a song.
This government just paid to $2 billion to the Superannuitants and Accident victims to buy KiwiBank. When instead they could have injected $2 billion capital and left it in the already quasi government ownership. Who knows but was it the lack of expected government investment capital to grow the bank that caused ACC and Superfund to sell out? Seems incompetent.
Government owned Kiwibank – job for day 1: Make $500million profit by moving goverment banking over from Westpac.
I don’t think introducing either of these taxes would sway the banks away from making obscene profits, they’d still find a way. Look at it in the same way as the supermarket duopoly; ultimately the banking sector will need to have increased competition in order to be willing to offer customers a fairer deal.
“REGULATE CAPITALISM!”
New Zealand hasn’t had capitalism since the Douglas years of the mid 1980s.