GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – There is a better way
Today’s generation of young adults are the first generation in recent history who will be substantially worse off than their parents .
New Zealand Politics
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GUEST BLOG: Aroha Mead – what free trade means to Aotearoa
On the panel on a sustainable world at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand, Aroha Mead, from Ngāti Awa and Ngāti Porou, reminded us what it means to live in Aotearoa.
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GUEST BLOG: Geoff Simmons – The Tax Tweaking Group
If we care about poverty, the best a Capital Gains Tax does is raise a bit of revenue for the government to spend. We have to hope like hell that money gets spent on the real problems facing the country like child poverty, rather than middle class welfare like free tertiary education.
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Subtlety Is Not Jordan Williams’ Strongpoint…
But thanks to Williams’ screeching abrasive would-be prognostication … if it keeps up, there is a very real risk that the only ‘entrails’ being read, will be those of the Tamihere campaign.
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List of things we all pray are behind the NZ Herald Paywall – BUILD THE WALL, BUILD THE WALL, BUILD THE WALL
As the paywall gets closer and closer at the NZ Herald, we all hope there are things that go behind the pay wall and things that stay outside it.
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GUEST BLOG: Donna Awatere Huata – ‘Greedy’ Boomers obliged to help fight climate change
Baby Boomers were lucky enough to live under Governments who rebuilt their societies post World War Two with the lesson of what happened if citizens weren’t protected from the sharp boom and busts of capitalism foremost in their minds. Those Governments inoculated their citizens from Fascism and Communism with a Democratic Welfare State and investment into their hopes and aspirations.
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Big Dairy Lies, Big Oil Lies, China Blaming, Greedy Landlords & CGT hysteria – the 5 big propaganda campaigns in NZ right now
New Zealand is a tiny country and it is incredibly easy to manipulate the narrative and seed the debate the way vested interests want it seeded. We are seeing some incredible propaganda campaigns being run in NZ right now and it’s worth reminding people about them as we pick our way through the minefield of fake news.
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Dr Liz Gordon – Debt as a weapon of mass destruction
The rise of high cost debt in Aotearoa is purely a response of the successive political movement to keep the bottom third of families living below the poverty line. No-one actually worried about the families at the time that Ruth Richardson’s mother of all budgets came in. The only goal of decreasing benefits then was to provide a gap between benefits and wages, so that wages could be pulled down.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – What Transformational Government looks like.
Labelling people socialists and communists is rife while the government starts to make the big changes that selfish, privileged nation wreckers are damned they will see happen, as long as they can enjoy the inequity of their ill gotten gains at the expense of all our great grandchildren and a more egalitarian future.
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Facebook & Google Tax should be viewed for what it is
These companies are the new Gods and listen to no single Government.