Essentially, our politicians have done the equivalent of running a business whilst falsely inflating profits, pretending the firm was doing well, until it reached the point where everything broke
Profitable businesses are frequently targeted by politicians in an obscene exercise of vote gathering. However, unlike politicians, profitable businesses are absolutely essential to economic prosperity for everyone.
Nurses, teachers and police to leave for Australia and mass unemployment in Wellington.
It isn’t their money being used: it is yours and you get to wear the day of reckoning.
The reality is that the way we fund public services in the future needs to change if this country is to maintain high living standards and avoid bankruptcy.
Assuming you already have a tribe, the correct way to approach life in a market state is to focus on looting the treasury by any means necessary.
The real news is not to be found at six o’clock on One or Three but elsewhere in places such as YouTube.
The parallels to a memorable election decades ago are unmistakable.
Most people serving in parliament earn more than they would get elsewhere. That is a powerful influence on their behavior.
If iwi keep inventing new privileges under Article Two of the Treaty, then the Crown should use Article Three which says that Māori rights and duties are the same as those of everyone else.
The most basic current flaw in the New Zealand economy lies with our low wage levels.
Government bonds are designed to be ‘safe’, not complicated, but stick to places run by people like us.
A succession of National and Labour governments have turned NZ into one of the planet’s worst performing economies.
Forcing Americans into EVs was always a bad idea economically, but it now appears to be a bad idea politically, too.
How can we expect to raise a generation of independent thinkers and self-sufficient upstarts if we can only afford to hand them over to the government while we work all day?
