Budget 2026 Debt Monsters Are a Right-Wing Scam
Budget 2026 debt panic is being used the same way it always is: the Right starves the State of revenue, points at the hole it created, then tells you public services are unaffordable.
The project for the Right is to starve the State of revenue and then manufacture Debt Monsters to frighten you away from demanding more from our Government!
Material hardship for children was already 14.3% in the year ended June 2025, and Budget 2026 does not put us back on track.
ANYTIME your policies are creating MORE child poverty is a red flag.
We wouldn’t have these problems if we created extra revenue streams to fund our public and physical infrastructure!
Every bloody election it’s the same ZB talking-point neoliberal myths on debt.
The Right are brilliant at pushing corporate interests camouflaged as small-business morality.
Why the household budget comparison is misleading
The Right pretend the Government is like a household in that you can’t spend more than your household brings in which is of course bullshit garbage because the fucking Government can snap their fingers and make money, a household can’t.
The Right manipulates small business morality so as to starve the State of any revenue to redistribute in the first place.
Our 30% debt straightjacket is pure neoliberal play and Bernard Hickey and Verity Johnson dismantle the lies about our debt.
The real debt crisis is private wealth and speculation
It isn’t Government debt that is the problem, it’s private debt used to fuel a speculative property bubble…
…we wouldn’t have a debt problem if we taxed the mega wealthy!
We are locked into right-wing talking points and rather than challenge those assumptions, we get bullied into accepting their solutions.
Universal public services that generate a meaningful material upgrade for the many paid for by the few is where the debate should be, not more public service cuts!
If we really want to confront our current situation the the alternative will have to be led from the grassroots and not beholden to the current parliamentary parties or its oligarchy and rich donors. The message will have to reach beyond the current corporate right wing media and speak directly to New Zealanders.
We know who the enemy and the complicit are ! most are in parliament enacting legislation that appeases their neoliberal masters and donors in what was once our sovereign parliament.
We now more than ever need a progressive movement with community support that will confront and take on the corrupt system and its enablers.
This from against the current.
” The tragedy of New Zealand politics in 2026 is not simply that the Government is pursuing austerity. It is that no parliamentary party is prepared to articulate, let alone champion, a genuine economic alternative. The National-led Government is committed to shrinking the state, weakening labour protections, and shifting wealth upward — all under the banner of “responsibility.” Labour, having internalised the logic of the market decades ago, offers only a softer, more apologetic version of the same programme. The Greens, despite flashes of radicalism, remain unwilling to confront their larger partner or break from the gravitational pull of Labourism ”
” Finance Minister Nicola Willis delivered her Budget speech with the usual ritualized empathy. She spoke of struggling families, rising hardship, and the pressures facing ordinary New Zealanders. Then, with the next breath, she raised rents for some of the poorest state housing tenants in the country. The crocodile tears dried quickly. For all the rhetoric about compassion, the Budget offered nothing that would materially improve the lives of most New Zealanders. In fact, for many, it will make things worse: higher costs, fewer services, and a government proudly committed to shrinking the very institutions that hold society together ”
https://nzagainstthecurrent.blogspot.com/2026/05/budget-2026-wheres-opposition-to.html