Wait, WHAT? Sorry, who is the thinly veiled political propaganda at the taxpayers’ expense?
Wait, WHAT?
Government has just one more Cabinet meeting before pre-election wind-down
The Taxpayers Union this week raised a complaint with the Auditor-General over the ads saying they were not “primarily informative or educational, unlike earlier Government COVID-19 advertisements”.
Taxpayers Union spokesperson Jordan Williams said the ads, “moved into the realm of thinly veiled political propaganda at the taxpayers’ expense”.
Sorry, who is thinly veiled political propaganda at the taxpayers’ expense?
The Taxpayers’ Union, a group which highlights what it sees as wasteful Government spending and argues for lower taxes, has been granted more than $60,000 in taxpayer money as part of the COVID-19 wage subsidy.
The money will be used to support nine of the incorporated society’s employees, according to an entry on the Government’s public database of wage subsidy recipients.
“This decision was made on the basis of our ethical obligations to staff during the Government-mandated economic shutdown,” a post on the group’s website said.
“The decision to accept this subsidy was not as simple for us as for most organisations. Prior to COVID-19, we have stated on the record that we would never accept taxpayer funding. That commitment was, of course, made in a time few New Zealanders could possibly have anticipated COVID-19 and the ensuing economic situation.
“After brief deliberation, the Taxpayers’ Union board determined the welfare of our employees to be a more pressing immediate concern than ideological purity.”
…let me get this straight.
When the Taxpayers Union needed bailing out it was about putting aside ideological purity for the good of the workers, but a public service campaign post pandemic is a ‘thinly veiled political propaganda at the taxpayers’ expense’.
Are you sure the Taxpayers Union, seeing as it’s now taxpayer funded, isn’t actually ‘thinly veiled political propaganda at the taxpayers’ expense’.
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…’ Are you sure the Taxpayers Union, seeing as it’s now taxpayer funded, isn’t actually ‘thinly veiled political propaganda at the taxpayers’ expense’…
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ROFL !!!
Does it get any richer than this?!!?
Really?
I dunno,… one from brother Bruce Springsteen, just for the hell of it. Always liked this dude, – and this song is far from patriotic. The Taxpayers Union?… seems like an import from guess where…
Bruce Springsteen – Born In The U.S.A.
https://youtu.be/sXRaUdJoHNA?t=140
This is evidence that the tax payers union starts shit and then says I didn’t start shit
Where did they get their inspiration from though?….from these shores?
Iv been dealing with these types of no talent, low energy, low IQ dweebs who take the easy road my whole life. They’re literally fucken everywhere.
WILD KATIPO
I reckon the Taxpayers union is just a ‘front’ as a local ‘trumpet’ for the global cabal, – they must get directions from a global controller that wants to have their lower level operators disseminate their global policies like ‘the Biderberg Group’ does; – so maybe they are hooked up to them?
Perhaps someone should send a request for our GCSB ‘secret intelligence’ to investigate them?
Worst they could do is is to find who this Taxpayer group actually communicates with.
Excellent, Govt. ( taxpayers) fund right wing attack on themselves.
Will this Govt. ever get off the appeasement track? Neo liberals will take every cent of such largesse and just work even harder to undermine the Ardern administration.
I’m a little confused about Taxpayers Union.
Whenever I’ve been in a union, and there have been many, my union subs, have paid the running costs of the Union, paying for heat, lighting, office rent, travel etc.
Who pays subscriptions to be a “Union Member” of the Taxpayers’ Union?
Who pays for the Taxpayers’ Union office leases/rent/phones/faxes?
Who pays Taxpayers’ Union Chief Executive’s wages and petrol bills?
The Taxpayers Union obviously has employees, if they received a “wage subsidy”.
I’m currently a taxpayer, and I hope to God that a portion of my taxes are not propping up Jordan WIlliams.
If Jordan Williams also claimed wage subsidy for employees, then who normally pays the employee’s, or employees’ wages to work for the Taxpayers during non-Covid-19 lockdowns?
Perhaps Grant Robertson, the electoral office and/or Inland Revenue should investigate the finances and wage subsidies of The Taxpayers’ Union?
If I have been paying for the Taxpayers Union, do I get a refund of my subs.
If someone else is funding the Taxpayers’s Union instead of me, who are they?
It’s the least Jordan Williams would expect, as CEO of the Taxpayers’ Union, that HIS funding base is fully investigated