Tax cuts and 1600 deaths per year

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1. tc 1

   31 May 2017 at 3:05 pm

   Opposition needs to go hard on this as a classic example of nationals priorities.

   Strip away the bs pr spin and its another massive F you to those in need
   • Draco T Bastard 1.1

     31 May 2017 at 3:49 pm

     +1
   • Jono 1.2

     2 June 2017 at 11:05 am

     +1
2. Enough is Enough 2

   31 May 2017 at 3:15 pm

   The Greens should make an immediate announcement that every budget cut will be reversed under a Green Government. (Labour will quickly follow that up with an identical announcement but put “Kiwi” in front of it).

   New Zealander’s need to know that a change of government will mean the cut will not occur.
   • Sigh 2.1

     1 June 2017 at 8:37 am

     But Greens voted for the tax cuts that make those budget cuts necessary, in the name of “helping the poor”.
3. UncookedSelachimorpha 3

   31 May 2017 at 3:27 pm

   Those NAct morons.

   They lie that they are “data driven” with a “social investment” approach, but every single time it comes to a decision, they do the exact opposite!!

   Cruel ignorant dickheads.

   #BrighterFutureFail
   • Draco T Bastard 3.1

     31 May 2017 at 3:50 pm

     Cruel, yes, but not ignorant – they actually do know exactly what they’re doing.
4. RedLogix 4

   31 May 2017 at 3:55 pm

   I’ve always thought that about 70% of NZ’s housing stock urgently needs remodelling with a bulldozer.
   • Draco T Bastard 4.1

     31 May 2017 at 6:12 pm

     True. We seem to have this collective idea that once a house is built it lasts forever rather than planning on tearing them down and replacing them once they’ve reached their use by date.
5. Booker 5

   31 May 2017 at 6:27 pm

   This is the thing with the Nats – here’s a policy that would deliver an overall benefit to the NZ economy of $1 billion. They went on about how the TPPA would add $2.9 billion by 2030 and how vital it was. Now they chop a policy that would add a third of that – not to mention, if the retrofitting of insulation was done using a NZ-made product, there’s an additional economic benefit not previously accounted for.

   All this from the party that promote themselves as the “strong, stable economy” and “financially sound management”. Even if you completely ignore the humanitarian, or simply egalitarian idea that people who are poor shouldn’t be cold all the time, this is an expenditure which delivers net economic benefit and they still cut it! Please, throw these crooks out come election day.
6. Keith 6

   1 June 2017 at 8:23 am

   James Shaw’s outrage over this dishonest budget is 100% justified.

   The problem is after the Greens tacit support of the very same budget neither he or the Greens are the people who can with any sincerity voice such outrage and nor do I care they apparently are. They’ve kind of lost credibility to do so.

   To me it’s a little bit like ACT being outraged! Or Dunne. Or the Maori Party.
   • Ed 6.1

     1 June 2017 at 11:11 am

     Perhaps you missed this:
     https://thestandard.org.nz/green-party-position-on-nationals-2017-budget/
7. greywarshark 7

   1 June 2017 at 10:20 am

   On Radionz this morning in the business report section about 6.45 am there were reports from bank economists about steady growth a fobust economym, tourism, construction and a third mentioned as doing well. Everything fine and dandy.

   Then news at 7 am, housing to hell, families to hell etc. Parallel universes we live on. The unseen seen, the Claytons great country. It is madness, and horrible to watch. We can’t put up with this.

   I had a discussion recently with one of the anomic generation who has grown up in this, she wasn’t fazed about the conditions for others who aren’t coping. That’s how it is these days!

   I have met a few like this in recent years. The ones I have remembered have been single women making their way, middle-aged without a partner of either gender, no children. One who has abandoned a professional occupation to follow her goal of environmental awareness but still living with parents.

   They are separated from the community though full of the ‘right’ talk about it and PCness. They are goal oriented but not practical as to how they will achieve it. They are aspirational about their individual achievement and hold themselves apart from society so they can follow their own, and in their opinion, better way, but they are still dependent on society.

   They don’t see that, don’t understand that, don’t feel their humanity, live for their projects, and as I say seem drifting and anomic, uncommitted to others and ready to change their minds and go in a different direction. Or perhaps never commit to one direction in the first place. And can’t be relied to help on when concerted community action working together is needed unless they are satisfied with the project or after a long drawn out discussion and a consensus (probably with much compromise) reached.
   • infused 7.1

     1 June 2017 at 1:25 pm

     News is about doom and gloom. It’s what sells and what you lot eat up.
     • greywarshark 7.1.1

       1 June 2017 at 5:23 pm

       nd looking for a reason not to look at the doom and gloom and do something to improve things is what you lot live on. Anything so that you don’t have to think, just jeers and yah boo and you lot are dumb. A schoolboy in trousers are you Infused?
8. Philj 8

   1 June 2017 at 7:21 pm

   Let’s not forget when a National Government (decades ago) removed the requirement for insulation in the Building Code from new houses being built. The Nats haven’t changed. Heartless and reckless. Brighter Future for whom?

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