Land Tax Could Hammer Homeowners and Farmers
Troy Bowker says the tax would not take account of changing personal circumstances. “You pay this every single year regardless of your income and your personal circumstances.”
Economy
Is a Marae Near You Worth $2.44 Billion of Your Tax Money?
This $2.44 billion “donation” isn’t about community infrastructure is it: it’s a desperate, taxpayer-funded undertaking to buy votes. Why aren’t the media asking the Greens if they are serving New Zealanders, or just subsidising and aligning themselves with the Māori Party’s agenda?
The Opportunity Party’s Radical Policies
Karl Marx would find much to admire in aspects of TOP’s policy manifesto.
Watchdog Taking Foodstuffs South Island To Court
Foodstuffs South Island stopped PAK’nSAVE stores discounting your groceries, watchdog alleges.
When the Money Tree Finally Runs Out
Before asking struggling households for more, our councils and Tiaki Wai must show us that they have trimmed the fat, postponed what can wait, concentrated upon essential services and opened their own books to proper public scrutiny.
Split Income To Reduce Welfare Churn
Australia’s tax system effectively punishes couples who choose to do their own childcare by treating the individual income earner, and not the family, as the unit of taxation.
Labour’s Capital Gains Tax Is Actually a Tax on Inflation
Labour governments tend to boost inflation. Chris Hipkins now wants to tax inflation as well.
Outgoing Commissioner Calls for Bigger Benefits
Claire Achmad has no understanding of behavioural economics. Or any other kind of economics.
A Skeptical Guide to UBI
As Milton Friedman once said, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.”
These Backdoor Agendas You Don’t Know About
This is how these far-left extremists get their agendas in through the back door. It’s not a weird conspiracy theory: it is a weird conspiracy fact.
Taxpayer Funded to Sit on the Couch
Nearly half of ‘frontline’ public servants don’t even show up.
Rents Under TOP
The flood of ‘free money’ in the form of the UBI will cause increased rents and inflation-driven price hikes.
Thanks for the ‘Help’, Labor
‘Intergenerational equity’ in practice is a bill the young will be paying for. generations
Luxon Chases Nigerian Princes While Kiwis Struggle at Home
Luxon can keep smacking it around the world if he likes. Meanwhile the rest of New Zealand will be wondering why their government seems more interested in distant billion customers than the struggling families right here at home.
Have You Seen How Much We’ve Spent on Foreign Aid?
We are subsidising international social engineering projects while failing to maintain basic domestic public services. This represents a troubling lack of oversight that demands immediate public scrutiny.