It was in 2009. Eight years later she was PM of our country. Scary isn't it? I recall her being asked about it in 2017. She just smiled and said "it was a long time ago".
Not that bloody long!
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No one has found a solution to youth crime that actually works. https://teara.govt.nz/en/youth-offenders/page-2
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I prefer McCartney & Lennon compositions myself. Have you got the link to the Ardern & Lenin ditty?
I couldn’t care less if someone uses the word comrade in rhetoric. Actions are more important. Her fiscal policy is right wing; monetary and economic policies are basically of the same old National/Labour approach; social policies are mostly progressive. Labour’s Treaty of Waitangi approach by giving greater say to vested interests of Iwi is the opposite of socialism. On balance, she is mostly conservative.
You could not be more wrong!
Her fiscal policy (being government spending and taxation policies to influence outcomes) cannot be more left wing than it has ever been.
Try debt funded & high taxation while rampantly & wastefully spending , especially on welfare.
No point going any further when you cannot get something so basic correct.
With respect the figures don't lie. Forecasters got it wrong & National & ACT continue to push this false narrative to a gullible but receptive constituency.
NZ deficit is half what was forecast & as a % of GDP lower than when National was govt during the GFC.
NZ Govt Nett Deficit as a % of GDP is lower than Australia, US, Canada,& UK. (Would you say those countries are more Left Wing than they've ever been ?) .
In key areas like Growth & Unemployment we are also in same position or better off than those countries.
The NZ economy is in a strong position as the world is being buffeted by a number of factors outside our control.
It's no good complaining daily about our crumbling infrastructure while also complaining every day about govt spending is it!
A National party severely lacking experience at a time when the world is in a perilous place, seem to want a return to the discredited Trickle Down economics of the 90's, reignite a Housing crisis for the benefit of investors, leave Climate Change Crisis policies up to Farmers, privatise anything they can get their hands on, & cut taxes for their High wealth donors who own them etc.
NB. The Covid Pandemic has had a much bigger impact on the world economy than the GFC. The Covid Pandemic is a once in 100 year event, the GFC was not.
Nonsense. She has ruled out a CGT. She does not propose an inheritance or wealth tax. There are no property stamp duties or financial transaction taxes. She is happy for the time being for NZ’s regressive system to continue. Even the new marginal top income tax rate is less than the top rates in recently Tory run Australia and UK. Government spending has been affected by Covid and has been stimulatory. Anyway it ended up to the advantage of land owners. The proportion of government involvement in the economy is still about at the level or lower than that of right wing OECD countries.
She has said the NZ tax system is unfair, but has not revealed her policy for the next election. So who knows, she may become more left wing….
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...MNINQXNUBYHZY/
Households’ finances moving from squeezed to crushed, economist warns
Quote:
Households’ finances are being squeezed on several fronts with more pain to come, a leading bank says.
Westpac’s latest economic bulletin, titled From Squeeze to Crush, said high levels of inflation had eroded spending power.
At the same time, borrowing costs were continuing to rise and the value of household assets had fallen during the past year.
“For many families, the pressure on their finances is going to become much more intense over the year ahead,” Westpac senior economist Satish Ranchhod said.
“Close to half of all fixed-term mortgages will come up for repricing over the next 12 months, and those borrowers will face refixing at substantially higher interest rates.”
When is the Labour front bench huddle of clueless halfwits due back from holidays ? ;)
And NZIER business survey recorded the worse result since 1961.
https://www.interest.co.nz/business/...inesses-expect
Ardern is achieving her aim of a communist utopia via socialism well ahead of her own expectations - destroying businesses and the economy.
Highest food inflation in 32 years - brought to NZers by Ardern & her clueless mob.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...M2D6XLGB7IYFQ/
Not their fault as usual though so they admit that they are useless and clueless by implication.
Ardern is gone in February!