David Seymour ACT Leader The Reserve Bank printed $100 billion, the Government borrowed $60 billion – we’ve got an economy that’s running on a sugar hit. The Government has been focused on all manner of initiatives, from bike bridges to public holidays, and paying people more to stay home,
There is a disconnect between our government’s lobbying for a trade agreement with the UK and the EU and failing to foster an environment in New Zealand for increased commerce and trade post-Covid, so that we have the products and services available to sell in these markets. A freeze
Jacinda Ardern is not the only trying to pull a swifty over electric cars versus utes. Notoriously, Ardern is trying to subsidise luxury EV cars for wealthy people at the expense of tradies and ordinary car-owners. Which is exactly what her dewy-eyed fans across the ditch at Australia’s ABC
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The Government’s car tax will unfairly punish Kiwis who don’t have the option right now of switching to an electric vehicle, National’s Transport spokesperson Michael Woodhouse says. National supports introducing financial incentives for people to purchase EVs but does not agree with financially punishing those who can’
David Seymour ACT Leader Labour is breaking its promise to not introduce new taxes by slapping new taxes on tradies, farmers and large families. The ‘feebate’ scheme ignores the fact that vehicles are already taxed and subsidised through the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). In September 2020, Grant Robertson said ‘we
Tom Fowdy rt.com Tom Fowdy is a British writer and analyst of politics and international relations with a primary focus on East Asia. The Latin American nation, which has used the greenback since 2001, has become the first nation in the world to institute the cryptocurrency as legal tender.
David Seymour ACT Leader Even Jacinda Ardern’s harshest critics never imagined her ‘nuclear-free moment’ would be coal-powered. According to the latest figures from the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE), coal imports are up are up 25 per cent on the same quarter last year. Coal used for
I grew up under a barrage of strikes. In 1970s Britain, there was always a strike somewhere – a car plant strike here, a cross-Channel ferry strike in the holiday season. Strikes were as regular and tedious as they were damaging. I studied for my ‘A’ Levels (7th Form Certificate) by
New Zealand is badly in need of a government that understands good decision making and the economic consequences of those decisions. We have not had one since late 2017. The current lot of reprobates are 69 individuals, playing at being in charge and having no idea of how to go
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 A few days ago, a friend drew my attention to what has been an extraordinary increase in public service staff numbers over the last three years. And by
Russian president Vladimir Putin might be many things, but stupid is not one of them. “Woke” is another: Putin is one of the last people who’d be browbeaten by a bunch of scowling teenagers and bourgeois loonies gluing themselves to roads. Putin is also not the sort to deliberately
Anyone who remembers John Key standing in the Wellington Westpac Stadium and bemoaning the fact that the number of people leaving New Zealand each year would fill that stadium must be coming to the realisation that soon, we will be back in the same situation. In fact, it is quite
Remember Universal Basic Income? UBI was, like, the biggest thing ever, in left-wing circles for a while. Bigger than Bernie Sanders, Greta Thunberg and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rolled into one, big Frankensocialist. Bigger than Hugo Chavez impregnating Jacinda Ardern from beyond the grave with some kind of mutant leftist demon-seed. But
Many of you will know that parts of Australia are currently suffering a once-in-a-lifetime mouse plague. The plague is affecting rural parts of Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales, and South Australia, resulting in the destruction of crops and people’s livelihoods. This is a tragedy for all concerned… but according
