Happy New Year – ACT has some New Year’s Resolution ideas for Jacinda Ardern and her Government
Firstly, start listening.
The Government has too many policies that divide people and divide wealth. It should dump them. Instead, we need policies that unite New Zealand behind good ideas to create wealth.
The Government proved last year it was capable of listening on one issue – it scrapped the highly unpopular cycle bridge in Auckland.
Here are some other things the Government should dump:-
- Three Waters Reforms, complexity and division with questionable benefits-
- Fair Pay Agreements, compulsory unionism that will kill productivity growth-
- Another public holiday, paid for by employers-
- Scrapping interest deductibility on property investors mortgages-
- The covid eradication response, failing despite the Government’s denials-
- Firearms reforms, alienated licenced firearm owners, but did nothing for gun crime-
- Zero Carbon Act, an overcomplicated way of reducing emissions-
- Commercial property law changes, shaking confidence in the rule of law-
- Significant Natural Areas, confiscation for improving your property-
- Live Export Ban, an enormous economic cost based on faulty assumptions-
- Car Tax, impractical, inequitable, and won’t reduce carbon emissions one gram-
- Oil & gas ban, destroying investor confidence in New Zealand-
- National Policy Statement on Freshwater, one-size-fits all and practical nowhere.
Those are just a few examples where the Government should listen to New Zealanders, back down from its ideological stance and do what’s right.
ACT has plenty of positive policies the Government can replace these with, including:
- An Epidemic Response Unit to govern the response to covid professionally and collaboratively
- Student Education Accounts, so parents are in charge of the education budget-30-year infrastructure funding and planning partnerships to get infrastructure built in each region
- Private insurance on new builds instead of costly council building inspections and get homes built
- A Regulatory Responsibility Act to ensure law making consults and considers peoples’ rights
- A Mental Health and Addictions agency to ensure the mental health dollar is efficiently spent
- ACT’s alternative budget would cut taxes, and start repaying debt by 2025-Electronic income management for welfare, so the kids get the benefits
- Gang injunction orders and tougher asset forfeiture laws, so organised crime doesn’t pay
- A four-year term with independent select committees, so law making is sober and considered instead of rushed and reckless
- A straightforward climate policy that links our emission levels to our ‘competitors’
It’s a New Year and time for some new thinking. Here’s hoping Labour finally starts listening.
You forgot to mention vax status! And segregation.
David Seymour clarified his position on vax mandates in a comment to his facebook post, see below.
We need a Union for Building and Construction safety it’s appalling what’s going on out there working conditions are shocking wages need addressing Nothing has changed in 35 years not good enough New Zealand wake the he’ll up. Regards Terence
David Seymour posted the above on Facebook, and replied to himself as follows:
For all the people complaining about mandates here, a few thoughts:
1) ACTs position is that people should be able to choose what goes on their property, so we believe the Government’s policy
Is wrong. We laid this out in October.
2) Under ACTs policy, most businesses would still require vaccination. Why? Because their staff and customers demand it. Why? Well because the overwhelming majority of us are thrilled with the technology that is mRNA vaccines. We don’t think it’s a giant conspiracy, just an amazing human achievement. What’s more, we’re getting a little tired of hearing from a tiny minority about the latest lunacy they’ve “researched” from some crackpot on rumble or some second tier website. If you want to go down your rabbit hole, fine, just leave the rest of us alone.
3) When it comes to listening, I’m hearing from people in the real world every day, and they just don’t agree with you.
Sorry to tell you all this, I hope you come ‘round.
Needless to say we disagree with him and this policy. Hopefully, by the time of the next election Covidiocy will be over.
Thought you might disagree 😉
All of Seymour’s list means nothing if you don’t have bodily autonomy and freedom of speech. He is actually very rude and dismissive and calls people dickheads etc whereas Judith Collins is much more astute, not that I would vote for National either. Seymour is a weasel.
In my opinion there is no-one to vote for and I am now apolitical. People trying to maintain their bodily sovereignty are going to have an excruciating time of it and an infinity of private misery unless there is mass non-compliance.
The essential thing is to turf the Jacinda government out of power and that requires National, very likely in coalition with with ACT. National is a centrist, populist party — it’s going to have policies that won’t alienate too many people so no chance of anything radical. But it’s not a party hindered with failed dogma and ideology like Labour and the wackiness of the Greens, so it’ll be a lot more reasoned and sensible. They are committed to scrapping the Jacinda government’s most dreadful schemes and restoring Freedom of Speech. For Kapiti people the infrastructure projects they want in this district make National a no-brainer.
I take your points WW regarding removing the sitting tenants but would be hesitant to vote for either the Nats or ACT especially if they still want to ram through compulsory jabbing. They have not guaranteed that people will enjoy bodily sovereignty and given that almost any other party, apart from Labour and its coat tailers, may have proven more efficient in the jab rollouts – this does not inspire confidence.
We have seen the slow watering down of “there will be no mandated jabs” to “we will go and find those who have not had the jab” to people losing their jobs. National and ACT need to put their libertarian/conservative pants on, be brave and show themselves as being worthy of a vote and confirm people are able to determine what goes into their bodies . I voted ACT at the last election and think I was conned as to ACT being a libertarian party.
ACT was a protest vote party in 2020 and most of the people who voted for it were protesting primarily against National not opposing Jacinda’s gun grab in 2019. But the situation the country is now in is a lot more serious without the brake on Labour’s excess and craziness that Winston provided. ACT’s policies generally are ones we support, but there are a few that we oppose. Nevertheless as stated, stopping the destruction that the Jacinda government is causing to the country’s social fabric and economy is paramount.
Seymour’s stance on the vaccines and mandates is very strange for a so called ‘freedom party’. Is the man so ignorant that he has not heard of the Nuremburg Code? Makes me wonder whether big donations from Pfizer et al haven’t come his way!