Would you like to get paid more and have your work get worse, or have your pay decrease in real terms but when you’re saving lives or raising the next generation of workers, you get to keep your head juuuust above the water level during this flood of fiscally unnecessary backbench public service cuts?
Those graphs are sobering. And telling. This isn’t about constraining spending; it’s simply about deconstruction of public services: brutally and fast.
👍🏾💯Excellent article & with "receipts" - those graphs put it into cold hard sober perspective. And on top of all that the change to Work-from-home for low income workers means extra travel costs in an already stretched budget. Just another example of how out of touch with real workers and the real world this lot are 🤬 (and the laid off govt workers STILL won't be spending money on coffee & cafe food 🤷🏾♀️)
And pay for roads too, I suppose. What about climate change, biodiversity collapse, inequality and social cohesion? My "tax cut" is $2.15. That is not going to enable me to pay for health, education or roads. The point of a government is not to prop up corporations and the wealthy but to govern in all our interests, to invest in the things most of couldn't pay for on our own. Yours is the most selfish and stupid posting I've read in a long time.
Anyone with health issues is automatically losing that money on prescriptions. My partially subsidised inhaler went up with the removal of pharmac funding (the subsidised ones have an alcohol base which my autism can’t tolerate), so even with a community services card Luxon’s “if you can pay, you should pay” still affects me. and on a befit i don’t get a tax cut, so I’m directly making a loss. And I don’t even use public transport that much — anyone who does due to being low income must be absolutely fucked in a weekly basis by that reappropriation of tax money.
Like you say, that’s not even touching big health/education/etc costs that aren’t and cannot be “user pays”. Cutting taxes for them just means NO ONE pays.
Another leftie completely missing the important issue of getting government spending under control which has not by any means been achieved yet. Also fails to grasp the obvious that there were no tax cuts, simply an adjustment of the brackets which did not come anywhere near to adjusting for inflation. These went to ordinary hard working kiwis who deserve it, and not to the rich. Finally it is awfully telling that all the successful activities in New Zealand are delivered by private enterprise. Food, eating out, phones, cars, travel, as compared to the most hopelessly delivered services of health, education, and roading. The less tax the government has the better and let the free market deliver goods and services efficiently and successfully. I would any day prefer to purchase my own health services and education in the free market than the absolute shambles delivered by both local and central government.
“No tax cuts just an adjustment of the brackets” okay that’s actually still a tax cut because it took tax out of the system and gave it to taxpayers, so you don’t grasp this issue at all. It would be “not a tax cut” if they’d found the money to cover it from somewhere else, like corporations or landlords. But no, they also gave landlords billions of dollars in tax back over the next several years.
What do you think the brightline test is if not a tax cut caused by reversing a previously created tax ? A tax increase? Your math sucks.
Those graphs are sobering. And telling. This isn’t about constraining spending; it’s simply about deconstruction of public services: brutally and fast.
👍🏾💯Excellent article & with "receipts" - those graphs put it into cold hard sober perspective. And on top of all that the change to Work-from-home for low income workers means extra travel costs in an already stretched budget. Just another example of how out of touch with real workers and the real world this lot are 🤬 (and the laid off govt workers STILL won't be spending money on coffee & cafe food 🤷🏾♀️)
Note this austerity measure was brought in after MPs got a large pay increase. How fair?
And pay for roads too, I suppose. What about climate change, biodiversity collapse, inequality and social cohesion? My "tax cut" is $2.15. That is not going to enable me to pay for health, education or roads. The point of a government is not to prop up corporations and the wealthy but to govern in all our interests, to invest in the things most of couldn't pay for on our own. Yours is the most selfish and stupid posting I've read in a long time.
Anyone with health issues is automatically losing that money on prescriptions. My partially subsidised inhaler went up with the removal of pharmac funding (the subsidised ones have an alcohol base which my autism can’t tolerate), so even with a community services card Luxon’s “if you can pay, you should pay” still affects me. and on a befit i don’t get a tax cut, so I’m directly making a loss. And I don’t even use public transport that much — anyone who does due to being low income must be absolutely fucked in a weekly basis by that reappropriation of tax money.
Like you say, that’s not even touching big health/education/etc costs that aren’t and cannot be “user pays”. Cutting taxes for them just means NO ONE pays.
Another leftie completely missing the important issue of getting government spending under control which has not by any means been achieved yet. Also fails to grasp the obvious that there were no tax cuts, simply an adjustment of the brackets which did not come anywhere near to adjusting for inflation. These went to ordinary hard working kiwis who deserve it, and not to the rich. Finally it is awfully telling that all the successful activities in New Zealand are delivered by private enterprise. Food, eating out, phones, cars, travel, as compared to the most hopelessly delivered services of health, education, and roading. The less tax the government has the better and let the free market deliver goods and services efficiently and successfully. I would any day prefer to purchase my own health services and education in the free market than the absolute shambles delivered by both local and central government.
“No tax cuts just an adjustment of the brackets” okay that’s actually still a tax cut because it took tax out of the system and gave it to taxpayers, so you don’t grasp this issue at all. It would be “not a tax cut” if they’d found the money to cover it from somewhere else, like corporations or landlords. But no, they also gave landlords billions of dollars in tax back over the next several years.
What do you think the brightline test is if not a tax cut caused by reversing a previously created tax ? A tax increase? Your math sucks.