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Quote by: G. Adams  This website, Darnton vs Clark gives a decent covering of the problems of New Zealands current government.
In addition a brief scan of wiki tells me she has introduce tax credits (crediting your own money back to you rather than not taking it in the first place demonstrates the assumption a principle of considering the money governments in the first place), raising minimum wage 6 times in her tenure (presumption that society at large has a right to determine trade between two private individuals) etc
Also from wiki on how lovely her government is... |
No government is perfect, and nor will they do things that everyone agrees with.
Taxation here is a bit sloppy, we are one of the few countries actually in tax credit rather than deficit.
The argument for tax cuts have been going on for awhile.
As for raising minimum wages, I am ok with that.
As there is no reason to presume that trade between two private individuals will be on a level playing field.
Minimum wage is for youth and unqualified workers and assures they receive a fair wage. There is no assurance that employers will give a reasonable wage on their own merit.
The Darnton vs Clark thing is an issue more complicated than given in that link. It concerns misspending and misinterpretation of laws regarding spending on election advertising.
The Electoral Finance Bill, is probably an over reaction to the events surrounding the last election.
Partly caused by the exclusive brethren ( a so called non political religious group) spending thousands of dollars to support an opposition party without revealing who they were.
The EF bill is in theory an attempt to make it so that people have to reveal who they are and the amount they are donating to each party and to limit the amount of money spent by a party to promote itself during an election.
Again no government is perfect and there is a predominance of nanny state ism here that I don't care for.
But some of them I feel are necessary as in minimum wage and some I wait to see the effects before judging as in the EF bill