The tsunami of privatisation and crony capitalism under National is now here and all the Left have are cycle lanes in Te Reo, GST off vegetables and militant policing of pronouns
The tsunami of privatisation and crony capitalism under National is ... The New Zealand government, formed under the name of National, is set to be the result of the tsunami of privatisation and crony capitalism set to hit New Zealand. The National Party's tax plan, outlined by shadow finance minister Nicola Willis, has identified 24 Government agencies from which it initially wants to cut 6.5% of their budget, with the total amounting to $594m of cuts totalling $594 million. These cuts are based on a Tax plan by National using revenue from removing the Foreign Buyers Ban to fund tax cuts and to have it done before Christmas. The potential cost of these cuts is expected to be higher than what the government has promised. The likelihood of Prime Minister-elect Christopher Luxon receiving Luxon's support is close to zero, meaning the cuts will require the ‘Social Investment’ approach, which has been used by the billionaire class, Real Estate Pimps and property speculators, since 2021, to fund the cuts. The proposed cuts would require the Social Investment approach to reduce public service costs, rather than having to spend more taxes like a Capital Gains Tax or Financial Transaction Tax to properly fund the welfare of children. The Public Services Commission (PSC) has been criticised for removing OT oversight and transferring it to the ERO to save the state.
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The full scale of the tsunami of privatisation ands crony capitalism about to hit NZ has been spelt out in Dr Bryce Edward’s latest music read post on who is advising National…
Who will the new National Government listen to when it decides how to govern? An early indication may be seen in who Prime Minister-elect Christopher Luxon has brought in to train his new MPs and ministers.
It was reported on Monday by Newstalk ZB that, because Luxon acknowledges his team’s lack of governing experience, the party has brought in some senior figures from the past. Luxon told Mike Hosking that Steven Joyce, Bill English and Wayne Eagleson have been coaching his caucus on how to be MPs and ministers, and how to lead the public service.
…The sheer scale of how much damage National and ACT are about to cause New Zealand as they form a Government with NZFirst is barely recognised by the electorate…
Under National’s tax plan, outlined by shadow finance minister Nicola Willis, it has identified 24 Government agencies from which it initially wants, on average, 6.5 per cent cuts amounting to $594m on so-called back-office functions to fund tax cuts and to have it done before Christmas.
There would be unders and overs but at 6.5 per cent, the cuts would amount to
…this on top of ACTs desire to slash 5 Ministries and the Human Rights Commission, we are seeing the largest amputation of the State since Roger Douglas.
Remember, these cuts are based on a Tax plan by National using revenue from removing the Foreign Buyers Ban that every independent economist has totally torn to shreds so the ACTUAL public service cost will be far greater than what they are currently promising!
The likelihood of Winston giving Luxon this is close to zero meaning the cuts will be far deeper requiring the ‘Social Investment’ approach.
The conga line of privatisation and crony capitalism is upon us…
…the billionaire class, Real Estate Pimps and property speculators have poured $12 million into the Right since 2021 and they aren’t doing that because they love the people, they are doing because they love their wealth!
It’s not just donors who will gain, the ‘social investment’ model used by right wing NGOs astroturfed into ‘community’ organisations aimed at destroying universal Welfare will gain as well because Winston won’t give National their Foreign Buyers ban lift.
So what is the ‘social investment’ model?
Oranga Tamariki is a Frankenstein monster, a neoliberal welfare experiment conjured up by Bill English and big data.
The argument is that children from backgrounds with specific features were the worst in terms of cost to the state, so if the State stepped in and removed the children quickly enough, that cost will fall.To do this they passed law reducing the legal rights of parents, streamlined their 0800 numbers and weaponised uplifts.
They also ensured that people with children taken from them are ineligible for legal aid so they couldn’t fight back legally. Oranga Tamariki has always been about saving the State money and the welfare of the child is secondary to that! Since the Royal Inquiry into Historic Abuse, the Public Services Commission has done all it can to remove OT oversight and roll it into the ERO so that it saves the State money if children are abused in our care. That Labour have acquiesced to this and removed the Children’s Commissioner from providing OT oversight is disgraceful. MSD in the 2000s oversaw obscene tactics that included hiring private detectives to dig dirt on victims who were complaining about being abused in state care in a Test case that if MSD had lost would have cost the State untold in damages. The elite Wellington Bureaucratic class wanted to remove the threat of costs and damages from poorly funded social services and the ‘social investment model’ is a means to spend money on the most costliest of those social problems without actually universally funding services. For the State, amputating social responsibilities and the legal threat of damages frees them up from having to spend any money in the first place. Rather than creating more taxes like a Capital Gains Tax or Financial Transaction Tax to properly funded the welfare of children in State care, it’s easier to amputate the responsibility altogether. Social Investment is a bullshit term for ending universal provision of welfare under the guise of providing more resource for the most at risk target demographic.
And what did the Left have in response to this right wing blitzkrieg?
Cycle lanes in Te Reo, GST off vegetables and militant policing of pronouns.
Here are the true winners of woke identity politics.
I fear the half a million Kiwis needing food charities each month will despise the Left for our incremental solutions.
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