Why National’s $600m, 24 000 new homes in Auckland plan is pure bullshit
The grim truth about National’s latest lie on housing is just how utterly hollow the plan really is.
New Zealand Politics
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – What’s more important? Bashing Metiria for being honest or NZ topping the list of countries with the most homeless?
Last week we watched the worst angles of our nature focus viciously on Metiria’s brave admission of being forced to cheat the system to feed her family, while a far larger story about our homelessness passed by without half the attention spent bashing her.
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GUEST BLOG: Ben Peterson – Gareth Morgans vision for working people – Stay Poor
Gareth Morgan’s Opportunities Party is working to appear a radical departure from the status quo. Proposals for a dramatic change to taxation policy and the partial roll out of a Universal Basic Income are a welcome political development. It’s good to have a political party seriously calling for the rich to pay more tax. But despite this, the policy package of The Opportunities Party (TOP) would hurt working people. Behind attention grabbing rhetoric TOP maintains a deep commitment to establishment economics and neo-liberalism.
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Who pays more tax – the super-wealthy or beneficiaries?
Wealth is not created from thin air. It is made from manipulating the wealth created by working people. In other words, you and I and every person living in New Zealand has been fleeced $1,489 more this past year so these bloodsuckers can build a bigger pile of unearned income. And they don’t pay tax on it.
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GUEST BLOG: Andrew Little – Cancer
It’s about priorities and is another way we’re making the choice between Labour and National clear. This election is a choice between Labour’s investment in healthcare, homes and education; and National’s $400m of tax cuts for the top 10%.
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Can we all pause and appreciate the counter productive madness of synthetic cannabis?
These 7 deaths in one month from synthetic cannabis is a failure of social policy. We either decide to have an adult discussion about drugs or we continue with the bullshit denial that is killing and maiming so many.
Wake up NZ.
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National Party Voters: An electorate or a cult? Understanding the viciousness spat at Metiria
As a small country, we have mistaken NZ as an equal country where people can freely move up through the social strata. I would suggest to you that statistic of 70% of National voters not knowing anyone unemployed actually shows that we are a highly segregated culture.
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Sins Of Admission – critiquing John Armstrong’s attack on Metiria
Metiria is guilty of a crime – but not the one John Armstrong rails against. Her transgression was to break ranks with the socio-political formation that has kept Richardson’s and Shipley’s welfare cuts bleeding and raw for more than quarter-of-a-century.
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National’s 2 Big Mac Combo tax cuts vs Labour/Green rebuild of entire social infrastructure
You can not argue there is no clear choice this election.
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Why you can’t vote NZ First if you want a change of Government
The spectacular blunder by Winston Peters (who may or may not have been advised by right wing hate merchants Simon Lusk and Cameron Slater) to set the theft of the Maori Electorate seats as a bottom line means NZ First has ruled itself out of working with the Greens and Labour.