Amen! Succinct and accurate. I heard the abominable Parmer last night at candidates debate at University of Waikato. The audience was less than impressed with her and Costello. And, icing on the cake, Potaka was an ill-tempered defensive mess.
Parmar's suggestion is the start of a very slippery slope. Smacks of Thatcherism - no such thing as society. I definitely choose never to vote for ACT.
I have never have, and never will, vote for ACT or NZ First! In my much younger days I used to vote for National, but we parted ways on ethics and thinking long ago!
I am sick indeed of the utter selfishness and the utter inconsistency this requires. Some things are targeted for user pays and others are not and the field keeps shifting. The more entitled one is the more others must pay for your needs. And where is all the money of the non-entitled supposed to come from? When the wealthy day by day, month by month, year by year accumulate more and more of it. We the people become the pawns in their nasty money about game. The vulture capitalism, libertarianism and neoliberalism where the wealthy and sorted have rights and opportunities and the rest do not, we are merely feeders to their hoard.
Very true Bryan, sadly for We in the We society the likes of "Wee mental Davey" are very well financed by their donors at the top of the tree. The money obviously gives him a bloated sense of self importance well above his station.
Agree I have never and I mean never complained about paying tax or rates, or for things I don't personally use. The exception power that was taken out of public ownership and companies who make mega profits with our collective resources. We are now heading to the privitization of acess to water made possible by this governments legislation forcing councils to relinquish contro of local water.
My memory tells me National did that once. Oh for a more we society. Systems collapse will force us back to the collective or we won't survive. Anyone else suspect we are experiencing some form of that?
Oh really - "voluntary?" I find that somehow, I'm completely unable (& strongly unwilling) to pay anything whatsoever which will in any way at all, benefit these devious, selfish, greed crazed Neo Liberals. They are enthusiastically engaged in further damaging this country & happily attempring to destroy any kind of reasonably decent future for most Kiwis. I strongly suspect that, if a reasonably detailed& very inclusive countrywide survey was to be conducted now, most people would want an end to the damaging greed based Neo Liberal system.
Even if that was to mean higher taxes (including for the very wealthy) in which ALL of us support each other, with no one being left out; no one dying of the cold because they're homeless (as happened here last week) or too poor to pay their electricity bill.
Some Scandinavial countries manage it, & quite well too. They do tend to have high taxes, but oddly they also tend to have the world's happiest people. Year after year...
It wasn't always like this. It does NOT HAVE to be like this.
I chose not to pay taxes that fund charter schools and private hospital contracts!
Amen! Succinct and accurate. I heard the abominable Parmer last night at candidates debate at University of Waikato. The audience was less than impressed with her and Costello. And, icing on the cake, Potaka was an ill-tempered defensive mess.
I choose not to pay taxes that funds this coalition's perks and salaries as all they do is stuff things up for the next generations.😖
Parmar's suggestion is the start of a very slippery slope. Smacks of Thatcherism - no such thing as society. I definitely choose never to vote for ACT.
I have never have, and never will, vote for ACT or NZ First! In my much younger days I used to vote for National, but we parted ways on ethics and thinking long ago!
I am sick indeed of the utter selfishness and the utter inconsistency this requires. Some things are targeted for user pays and others are not and the field keeps shifting. The more entitled one is the more others must pay for your needs. And where is all the money of the non-entitled supposed to come from? When the wealthy day by day, month by month, year by year accumulate more and more of it. We the people become the pawns in their nasty money about game. The vulture capitalism, libertarianism and neoliberalism where the wealthy and sorted have rights and opportunities and the rest do not, we are merely feeders to their hoard.
Very true Bryan, sadly for We in the We society the likes of "Wee mental Davey" are very well financed by their donors at the top of the tree. The money obviously gives him a bloated sense of self importance well above his station.
Agree I have never and I mean never complained about paying tax or rates, or for things I don't personally use. The exception power that was taken out of public ownership and companies who make mega profits with our collective resources. We are now heading to the privitization of acess to water made possible by this governments legislation forcing councils to relinquish contro of local water.
My memory tells me National did that once. Oh for a more we society. Systems collapse will force us back to the collective or we won't survive. Anyone else suspect we are experiencing some form of that?
Such an easy choice to make :)
We have to keep beating the drum - How To Vote for Fixed Policies rather than blindly for those that get changed by coalitions in the house. https://peterlcollins.substack.com/p/how-can-we-make-mmp-work-better
Oh really - "voluntary?" I find that somehow, I'm completely unable (& strongly unwilling) to pay anything whatsoever which will in any way at all, benefit these devious, selfish, greed crazed Neo Liberals. They are enthusiastically engaged in further damaging this country & happily attempring to destroy any kind of reasonably decent future for most Kiwis. I strongly suspect that, if a reasonably detailed& very inclusive countrywide survey was to be conducted now, most people would want an end to the damaging greed based Neo Liberal system.
Even if that was to mean higher taxes (including for the very wealthy) in which ALL of us support each other, with no one being left out; no one dying of the cold because they're homeless (as happened here last week) or too poor to pay their electricity bill.
Some Scandinavial countries manage it, & quite well too. They do tend to have high taxes, but oddly they also tend to have the world's happiest people. Year after year...
It wasn't always like this. It does NOT HAVE to be like this.
Not voting for Act goes without saying I would have thought. Same goes for NZ dumbest party.
How can anybody vote for someone who calls your children or grandchildren little shits?