Key’s $1 billion is not a game changer, says CPAG
The $1 billion promised by the Prime Minister to pay for local council housing infrastructure seems to show significant recognition…
politics
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Giving Business What it Wants
HEAR FOR YOURSELF the voice of the invincibly self-interested business class. Proclaiming Australia’s inconclusive election result as “bad for business”, Christopher Niesche, consoles his readers with the observation that “it doesn’t look as if Labor will be able to form a government.”
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Should the Financial Veto be Allowed?
For the record, my Bill would have cost just 0.7% of the NEW spending for Budget 2016 and 3.6% of the NEW spending planned by National for 2017. At full implementation it would cost 0.03% of the $3b worth of tax cuts John Key wants. Is that more than minor? I don’t think so.
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A $1billion dollar bribe to developers using borrowed money isn’t a solution!
This Government do not want to pop the property bubble they have built because it’s the only thing propping up the economy and the inflated sense of wealth the middle classes have derived from property speculation keeps them voting National.
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Immigration policies designed to keep workers down not out
Workers in this country and around the globe need our own policy on immigration. Ultimately we can never stop workers seeking a better life. That is true for New Zealanders going to Australia or workers coming to New Zealand. We should support every step that equalises the status of workers here, whether they were born here or not. As a first step, that means that no worker on a temporary visa should be tied to one employer.
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What, wait, the Police are trying to gain MORE search and surveillance powers?
What the Police seem to be wanting here is the GCSB to act as the 3rd party to simply go through anyones cloud without a warrant.
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Smoking and Budget 2016
Budget 2016 saw the Māori Party score another set of annual excise tax hikes, seeing efforts to further decrease the number of smokers continue to 2020, and the cost of smoking to rise by up to $30 in the same period.
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The British Labour debate is really about policy
Jeremy Corbyn becoming leader represented a big shift to the left in the British Labour Party. But from day one the mostly right-wing Labour MPs have been plotting to get rid of him.
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Killing off Lifeline
While Key can build tax havens and blow $26million on a flag referendum, apparently we don’t have any money to ensure Lifeline stays afloat.
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NATIONAL’S DOUBLE SPEAK: To make unemployment stats drop, Government claims anyone looking for jobs on internet isn’t unemployed
National’s double speak are obvious lies but when you are a desperate speculator mortgaged up to the hilt you don’t care and if you are one of the missing million voters, you stopped listening.