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    Quote Originally Posted by Joshuatree View Post
    • Fact checking the myth makers on here in just one area.
    • We’ve rolled out free and healthy lunches in schools to 7,000 students, increasing to 21,000 students over the next year
    • We’re boosting the incomes of 384,000 families by $75 a week on average through the Families Package
    • We’ve extended free doctor visits to all children under 14
    • We’ve lifted the minimum wage to $17.70 an hour (and raising this again to $18.90 an hour from April)
    • We’re indexing main benefits to wage growth, so families don’t fall further behind
    • We’re easing the pressure on parents by scrapping NCEA fees, and increasing funding so most parents don’t have to pay school donations
    • We’ve set child poverty targets into law, to hold governments now and in the future to account
    Yup - all about throwing taxpayers and other people's monies with no accountability and responsibility to create ever more demand for social welfare.

    Kiwibuild.

    Capital Gains Tax.

    Housing situation getting worse and worse.

    Economic growth going backwards.

    No plans to counter the Coronavirus economic slowdown underway - just ask the sectors impacted out there.

    Bring on September 2020 - Jacinda & Labour - Let's Not Do This!

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    Hollow best describes your response. Have you applied for candidate school yet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joshuatree View Post
    • Fact checking the myth makers on here in just one area.
    • We’ve rolled out free and healthy lunches in schools to 7,000 students, increasing to 21,000 students over the next year
    • We’re boosting the incomes of 384,000 families by $75 a week on average through the Families Package
    • We’ve extended free doctor visits to all children under 14
    • We’ve lifted the minimum wage to $17.70 an hour (and raising this again to $18.90 an hour from April)
    • We’re indexing main benefits to wage growth, so families don’t fall further behind
    • We’re easing the pressure on parents by scrapping NCEA fees, and increasing funding so most parents don’t have to pay school donations
    • We’ve set child poverty targets into law, to hold governments now and in the future to account
    Why not just raise the minimum wage to $100 an hour?
    Free lunches for all university students - not just schools.
    Triple the families package.
    And implement a price and rent freeze at same time to block inflation, just like Piggy Muldoon did in the 70's.
    All so easy; shouldn't be difficult at all for the current bunch of wand wavers and wizards.

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    Exactly Balance. Not one thing in JT's list to boost the performance of this country (we could write a reasonable list of things they've done to slow the performance down), just throwing million after million of taxpayers money at pet projects.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fungus pudding View Post
    Why not just raise the minimum wage to $100 an hour?
    Free lunches for all university students - not just schools.
    Triple the families package.
    And implement a price and rent freeze at same time to block inflation, just like Piggy Muldoon did in the 70's.
    All so easy; shouldn't be difficult at all for the current bunch of wand wavers and wizards.
    Why not?
    Because that would be silly!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joshuatree View Post
    • Fact checking the myth makers on here in just one area.
    • We’ve rolled out free and healthy lunches in schools to 7,000 students, increasing to 21,000 students over the next year
    • We’re boosting the incomes of 384,000 families by $75 a week on average through the Families Package
    • We’ve extended free doctor visits to all children under 14
    • We’ve lifted the minimum wage to $17.70 an hour (and raising this again to $18.90 an hour from April)
    • We’re indexing main benefits to wage growth, so families don’t fall further behind
    • We’re easing the pressure on parents by scrapping NCEA fees, and increasing funding so most parents don’t have to pay school donations
    • We’ve set child poverty targets into law, to hold governments now and in the future to account
    Re the child poverty , is she holding herself to account ? Surely that's a fail ...
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...erial-hardship

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    Quote Originally Posted by dobby41 View Post
    Why not?
    Because that would be silly!
    As is raising minimum wages, which flows to all wages, and ignoring the inflationary effect; which makes increasing the minimum simply by a stroke of the political pen futile.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fungus pudding View Post
    As is raising minimum wages, which flows to all wages, and ignoring the inflationary effect; which makes increasing the minimum simply by a stroke of the political pen futile.
    Just restore Feudalism, then you might, perhaps, be happy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fungus pudding View Post
    As is raising minimum wages, which flows to all wages, and ignoring the inflationary effect; which makes increasing the minimum simply by a stroke of the political pen futile.
    There was a certain NZ PM who used to regularly devalue the NZ$ as a means to maintain export competitiveness. He was famously told off by Rob Jones that NZ could not devalue it’s way to prosperity because if it was that simple, then just devalue by 50% in one go and NZ would be in economic paradise.

    The Buffoon Muldoon knew better of course and NZ was nearly bankrupt by the time he was turfed out of office.

    Cindy’s lot is very similar to Muldoon - they think they can increase minimum wages, plough ever money into social welfare and increase taxes on the productive sector and NZ would be an economic paradise with everyone living in nice houses, wonderful jobs and eat great food. No idea about how their wacky ideas are adversely impacting on the economy.

    One word - Kiwibuild. Jacinda Adern says - Let’s not do 10,000 houses!
    Last edited by Balance; 26-02-2020 at 04:43 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fungus pudding View Post
    As is raising minimum wages, which flows to all wages, and ignoring the inflationary effect; which makes increasing the minimum simply by a stroke of the political pen futile.
    Raising the minimum wage in isolation perhaps would be futile. You need to also have policies that encourage increased productivity of labour. Perhaps you need to encourage investment in technology and business capital rather than in residential property for a start.

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