ACT's David Seymour - i like his style.

[Balance]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...-david-seymour

Winston NO Peters - yesterday’s man mauled by Seymour.

Looks like Sunshine exposed Grandpa’s hypocrisy for all to see.

[moka]

Act leader David Seymour wants the Human Rights Commission abolished because of its "left-wing manifesto".
Talk about living in the past, the Left Wing Manifesto was written 100 years ago in 1919. Left wing is used as a derogatory term but in politics left-wing is a position that supports social equality and egalitarianism, which sounds like a good idea to me.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/acts-david-seymour-calling-for-hard-left-human-rights-commission-to-be-abolished/OBX73GLPWXPTYNEUGRWCSJJMH4/

"The Commission is a hard-left organisation masquerading as a government department," Seymour said.
The Human Rights Commission today called for the new government to honour human rights and laid out 39 issues it wants politicians to adopt.
Included are creating a written constitution that honours Te Tiriti o Waitangi, makes the minimum wage the living wage, creates more employment opportunities for disabled people, builds decent and affordable homes and a formulates national action plan against racism.
It also wants a national strategy to deal with family violence, an end pay discrimination, for police to collect hate crime data and to make the health and disability system work for all disabled people.

The Left Wing Manifesto
moses.law.umn.edu › darrow › documents › Gitlow_Le...

The world is in crisis. Capitalism, the prevailing system of society, is in process of disintegration and collapse. Out of its vitals is developing a new social order, the system of Communist Socialism;

[Ferg]

The HRC is a joke. They need to stick to what they are paid to do and butt out of issues not related to their purpose. Furthermore, they need to stick up for the rights of ALL New Zealanders. An analysis of their facebook posts by me about 5 years ago revealed one article out of circa 200 that was aimed at men in general. Not trans men, not homosexual men, not disabled men but men in general. Less than 1%. I took them to task on this but I got the usual mealy mouthed response about every day being mens rights day. What a load of tripe. This was at a time when boys were actively not screened for HPV due to their gender, despite the fact they were potential carriers. Again I pressured the HRC to address this issue but they were not interested. This policy has since changed but not due to any thanks from the HRC whatsoever. In one breath the HRC post a team photo containing 9 women and 1 man and in the next photo they decry organisations that are not sufficiently diverse. What a pack of self-serving misandrist hypocrites. David Seymour is not wrong.

[fungus pudding]

Act leader David Seymour wants the Human Rights Commission abolished because of its "left-wing manifesto".
Talk about living in the past, the Left Wing Manifesto was written 100 years ago in 1919. Left wing is used as a derogatory term but in politics left-wing is a position that supports social equality and egalitarianism, which sounds like a good idea to me.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/acts-david-seymour-calling-for-hard-left-human-rights-commission-to-be-abolished/OBX73GLPWXPTYNEUGRWCSJJMH4/

"The Commission is a hard-left organisation masquerading as a government department," Seymour said.
The Human Rights Commission today called for the new government to honour human rights and laid out 39 issues it wants politicians to adopt.
Included are creating a written constitution that honours Te Tiriti o Waitangi, makes the minimum wage the living wage, creates more employment opportunities for disabled people, builds decent and affordable homes and a formulates national action plan against racism.
It also wants a national strategy to deal with family violence, an end pay discrimination, for police to collect hate crime data and to make the health and disability system work for all disabled people.

The Left Wing Manifesto
moses.law.umn.edu › darrow › documents › Gitlow_Le...

The world is in crisis. Capitalism, the prevailing system of society, is in process of disintegration and collapse. Out of its vitals is developing a new social order, the system of Communist Socialism;

Act leader David Seymour wants the Human Rights Commission abolished because of its "left-wing manifesto", which sounds like a good idea to me.

[peat]

A free article on the man himself from Business Desk

https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/t...vid-seymour-mp

[Aaron]

Hard to believe I would agree with David Seymour on anything but there you go. I am surprised the party for the rich does not like centrally controlled monetary policy as it has done so well for the well off for so many decades. Nice to think ideological beliefs extend to policies that don't favour his voter base.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/natio...?ocid=msedgntp

[fungus pudding]

Hard to believe I would agree with David Seymour on anything but there you go. I am surprised the party for the rich does not like centrally controlled monetary policy as it has done so well for the well off for so many decades. Nice to think ideological beliefs extend to policies that don't favour his voter base.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/natio...?ocid=msedgntp

Act is not 'the party for the rich'. They are a party for NZ'ers, although unlike the Greens and labour, they are not against the rich.

[Aaron]

Act is not 'the party for the rich'. They are a party for NZ'ers, although unlike the Greens and labour, they are not against the rich.

Stop talking s*it FP I explained earlier in this thread how ACTs flat tax proposal would work in reality. Maybe you really don't understand as I don't recall you answering all my quiz questions.

[fungus pudding]

Stop talking s*it FP I explained earlier in this thread how ACTs flat tax proposal would work in reality. Maybe you really don't understand as I don't recall you answering all my quiz questions.

For a kick-off, Act does not have a flat tax proposal. They propose a 3 stage progressive tax, with the top rate remaining at 33%. I don't know what you said about the flat tax proposal, but I'd be all for it as long as it was percentage based, i.e. the more you earn the more you paid. I certainly understand flat taxes, both amount and percentage systems. I consider a flat tax with a fixed percentage is the fairest system. You may not - that's fine.

[macduffy]

Well, at least David Seymour ensures that NZ has an opposition party in this term's parliament!