Labour doesn't want to solve these issues.. they have been focused on obtaining the centre vote.
The borrowing (created money not real money) was for covid and the floods, not poverty alleviation.
Sir John of hellensville borrowed a whole lot too.
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The casual contempt with which you dismiss the philanthropy of the wealthy (‘it’s just so they can feel good about themselves’) also reveals a flaw in your reasoning. Why would your (marxist) archetypes, seemingly without a care or a conscience in the world, be motivated to ‘do good’?
Really though, your limited views just go to show that you a certain type of Left wing conspiracy theorist - and as with all conspiracy theorists, you are simply not attuned to the real world with all its myriad complexities.
It’s all very well for the Left to thunder that NZ nurses ‘should be paid what they are worth’ and would be in a fair and just world, but I would argue that the only thing stopping Labour is their own choices. If Labour does not want to see billions blown on extra communications staff, middle managers, executives, ‘Maori health’ bureaucracy etc etc etc then it is entirely within their power to see that the money is spent instead on ‘doctors and nurses’. It is totally wrong-headed to blame ‘the rich’ for the ineptitude of the current government.
In todays ‘deluded Left’ cartoon from rabid socialist Sharon Murdoch - published on ‘Stuff - we see Robbo shovelling a minuscule pile of coal into a furnace marked with ‘Cost of living’ , ‘Health’ , ‘Education’ , ‘Housing’ , ‘Law & Order’ , ‘Defence’ , ‘Infrastructure’ , ‘Resilience’.
The furnace is emitting great billows of smoke labelled ‘Climate change poverty’.
Robbo is looking back over his shoulder, but despite his dwindling pittance of coal is saying “it’s ok, I don’t need more tax”.
So the obvious ‘point’ that Murdoch is making is that Robbo has almost no $$$$ on hand with which to combat things like ‘Housing’ (issues) and ‘Cost of living’. And he hasn’t raised new taxes on ‘the wealthy’ so therefore has a big smokey problem on his hands.
I’ve got two words for Murdoch: government borrowing.
Here are some more words (facts) -
‘Net core Crown debt stood at just under $58b after Grant Robertson delivered his third Budget in 2019; it is now forecast to top $151b in the year to June and nearly $179b a year later.‘
Blaming ‘the wealthy’ for the ineptitude and waste on this government just doesn’t fly. Robbo has known no constraints on his spending: he simply borrows and spends regardless of inflation and monetary policy. He doesn’t have a dwindling ‘pile of coal’ ($$$$), he has a mountain of the stuff. He feeds the furnace alright, but his government will have to own the fact that it doesn’t achieve tangible outcomes.
Cartoonists like Murdoch are frankly disingenuous. They are simply not being honest, and it is a great shame that cartoons like this get published.
The treasury filled with Act party types/sympathisers forecast a surplus in only a couple of years..
Any evidence to back your claim that Treasury is filled with ‘ACT party types / sympathisers’?
Keep your eye on that vaunted ‘credit rating’. Robbo yet to have the annual conversation with the ratings agencies & we all know the state of out balance of payments ledger.