Green Buckets – A Complete Waste of Money
Each year the Food Scrap Bin programme costs more than $36 million, or about $77 per household – despite only 35 per cent of Aucklanders actually using them.
Economy
Means-Testing Jobseeker Benefits for 18- And 19-Year-Olds
Well-intentioned policies are frequently beaten by the introduction of bad incentives and their outcomes.
The Greens and Their Idealism
What makes idealists dangerous is when they get frustrated because no one will listen. This, at least to them, justifies using force to make others do what they want, ‘for their own good’.
Good Policy Requires Courage
Where is the party with the courage to set New Zealand on the path to a better future – one where the good of New Zealanders is put first, and where there’s no kowtowing to vested interest groups demanding special privileges.
The State Has a Monopoly on Violence
For the modern left, the state is the conduit through which wealth is accumulated, by expropriating capital created in a marketplace and funnelling it back towards itself.
The Guilty Leftist
Suddenly the truth was blindingly obvious. The left doesn’t care about women.
Tax and Spend: Labor True to Form
Victoria increases taxes by up to 2600 per cent in a decade.
Red and Green Make Brown
This is a nightmare situation for the country, the majority of the people and Hipkins. In reference to the Greens’ budget, he says he won’t rule anything in or out. That doesn’t inspire confidence does it.
Loonies of the Day
The big income raiser in the plan is the wealth tax, which would raise $72.4b over the four years.
The EPA Slush Fund for Climate Grifters
The cacophony of this mass industry feeding at this climate trough means it won’t give up so easily.
We’re Closing Due to Threats
Threats from National and Labour parties and Big Business NZ Incorporated.
The Unrealised Capital Gains Tax
A UCGT is not an effective tax: it is an ideological tax. It is the perfect tax for the age of woke.