20-09-2023, 12:08 PM
Bryan Bruce on the leader's debate.
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"Then ,as the debate progressed, it became clear that my choice is National’s return to the hard line neoliberalism of the 1980’s of less government in our lives and promoting the interests of the already wealthy and Labour’s soft -line neoliberalism of wanting to promote social wellbeing but failing to recognize that to fix the poverty problem you have to fix the untaxed wealth accumulation problem . (Their own tax working group told them as much when they recommended a Capital Gains Tax)
I think it’s clear a vote for National is a vote for house prices to rise, for the already wealthy to get richer and for the many to struggle to make ends meet.
While Christopher Hipkins rates better on the transparency scale in my view , it seems to me that a vote for Labour is a vote for how things are …and with one child in every 5 living in a home that struggles to put food on the table .. things are not great and Labour’s failure to grasp the untaxed wealth nettle means this issue among many other social problems are not going to be solved any time soon
As someone who thinks we should have a fairer society where people don’t have to line up for food hand outs and every child should get the chance to be the best that they can be , as i say, I found this debate deeply frustrating . "
https://www.facebook.com/www.redsky.tv
"Then ,as the debate progressed, it became clear that my choice is National’s return to the hard line neoliberalism of the 1980’s of less government in our lives and promoting the interests of the already wealthy and Labour’s soft -line neoliberalism of wanting to promote social wellbeing but failing to recognize that to fix the poverty problem you have to fix the untaxed wealth accumulation problem . (Their own tax working group told them as much when they recommended a Capital Gains Tax)
I think it’s clear a vote for National is a vote for house prices to rise, for the already wealthy to get richer and for the many to struggle to make ends meet.
While Christopher Hipkins rates better on the transparency scale in my view , it seems to me that a vote for Labour is a vote for how things are …and with one child in every 5 living in a home that struggles to put food on the table .. things are not great and Labour’s failure to grasp the untaxed wealth nettle means this issue among many other social problems are not going to be solved any time soon
As someone who thinks we should have a fairer society where people don’t have to line up for food hand outs and every child should get the chance to be the best that they can be , as i say, I found this debate deeply frustrating . "
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