Labour’s first election year policy shows they are straight back to their old ways of throwing money around rather than solving underlying problems.
Labour is once again trying to bribe New Zealanders with their own money. This is yet another spending promise from the Labour Party with no plan for how they’ll pay for it.
The National Land Transport Fund is already oversubscribed. The idea of siphoning a quarter of a billion dollars from the Fund to pay for this is fanciful. Ultimately this policy will require higher taxes or more borrowing.
This comes on top of billions of dollars in other spending promises they have made with no way to pay for it – such as restoring pay equity, unwinding public sector savings, and how they will pay for their Future Fund.
For New Zealanders that means more taxes and more borrowing, which ultimately means higher inflation and interest rates, and greater pressure on the cost of living.
When it comes to tackling cost of living challenges, the difference between National and Labour couldn't be clearer.
Labour's approach is more subsidies, more handouts, and more temporary fixes – none of which do anything to address the underlying causes of the cost-of-living pressures impacting Kiwi families.
National is focused on stopping wasteful spending to reduce inflation and growing the economy so New Zealanders can earn more and get ahead. The best way to address the cost-of-living is a growing economy that sees wages growing faster than prices.
It is time for Labour to be upfront with New Zealanders about how they will fund their hidden bill, either increasing taxes now or increasing borrowing to be paid back by future generations.
Higher taxes, more debt and larger deficits is a recipe for more inflation, higher interest rates, and a slower recovery, with fewer jobs and lower wages. That is the choice on offer from Labour, whether they admit it or not.
Labour just wants to hand out “free stuff” like Oprah.
It took two and a half years, a bonfire of useless old policy, a lame excuse to wait for the budget, and all Labour could come up with was ‘capping public transport costs’…but just for some people…just in some areas…just for some things.
Labour says public transport will only cost up to $20 a week then it’s free. Newsflash: nothing is ever “free”.
“Free” actually means taxpayers pay for it - because whether Labour understands it or not, money doesn’t grow on trees. And guess what. People who are riding on public transport are the taxpayers who are going to pay for it.
Labour’s big plan is to move $65m from the National Land Transport Fund to pay for it all. That automatically means something else that money was already allocated to will now not be paid for - or they have to either borrow more or tax you more.
They already said they want everyone to get three “free” doctor’s visits as well.
It’s starting to sound like an Oprah Winfrey episode where everyone gets free stuff handed out. You get one, you get one, everyone gets one!
Just in the last few months NZFirst has already announced policies on breaking up the power companies, splitting the supermarket duopoly, establishing a competitive state owned bank, returning royalties to the regions, creating a KiwiSaver generation for newborns and increasing contributions, establishing a NZ Future Fund…and there are many more coming.
Those are what you call real policies that tackle the cost of living issues for kiwis and start to build a country we are all proud of.
Labour just wants to hand out “free stuff” like Oprah.
A girl raped by 700 men over three years.
Jack Daniel bottle shoved into a 12-year-old girl in course of rape.
Girls kept in dog cages.
Girls raped by dogs, men betting on the act.
~ @RupertLowe10 narrates what Pakistani rape gangs did to British girls.
Multiculturalism has failed.
Even the politicians who pursued it now admit it. That's because diversity is not a strength, unity is.
The solution to the failure of multiculturalism is monoculturalism, where all citizens subscribe to a shared national identity which is more important than their individual differences.
🚨White leftist lady with rainbow LGBT earrings demands Australia bring stranded ISIS members back home.
A Yazidi refugee tortured by ISIS begs to keep them blocked forever.
Peak suicidal Western empathy destroying the West.
🇦🇺 Australia just deported Sneako and slapped him with a lifetime ban from the country…
The government cancelled his visa after intense media scrutiny, with a petition by Drew Pavlou garnering nearly 10,000 signatures.
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke: "We are a better country when he is somewhere else.”
Source: Sky News Australia, @DrewPavlou
BREAKING NEWS: WE GOT SNEAKO DEPORTED FROM AUSTRALIA!!!
My petition received nearly 10,000 signatures.
I worked on this to defend the memory of the 88 Australians massacred by jihadists in Bali and the 15 Australians massacred by jihadists at Bondi.
@Schandillia Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has repeatedly supported or commended China’s policies toward Uyghur Muslims. So thats a proven and acceptable formula :) 🇨🇳
@TheConsultant18 Stop Khalistan Asylum seekers. They join that movement to obtain PR in NZ, Canada.
Baltej Singh - family moved to New Zealand in the late 1980s and reports indicate they obtained residency/protection by claiming they were pro-Khalistan activists facing persecution in India
Albanese is using Bondi to rush through new laws to curb free speech in the name of promoting social cohesion and disrupting "hate". Do not be fooled. These laws will not protect ordinary Australians, Christians or even the Jewish people. Similar laws have been introduced in the UK and a person was even arrested for a post warning about rising anti-semitism! Australians need to wake up as we are rapidly in danger of losing our freedoms and our way of life 🇦🇺
It's not 66bn of covid debt
Labour inherited a surplus
Labour promised kept keep running a surplus
Labour broke that promise before covid
Labour increased core govt spending by 1bn every week
Labour added 18k bureaucrats
Labour had billions in transport promises they never budgeted for
Labour spent billions on failed projects
Labour added close to 100bn in new debt
Most of the current deficit is the interest cost of Labour's debt
Labour are chronically bad with money
We can't afford another Labour government
🟥 NZ 🇳🇿 - Another hate mongering woke academic exposed
Mohan J Dutta from @MasseyUni spewing his hate
His rehetoric is an example of his sick, distorted thinking infecting the minds of students.
NZ universities are becoming breeding grounds for hatemongers to peddle their snake oil ideology.
Perhaps Dutta should be deported?
@dbseymour@DrShaneRetiMP@EricaStanfordMP@winstonpeters@mangonui08@theplatform_nz