Mr Reidy says the $461 million funding commitment means the three-year Rail Network Investment Programme 2024-27 is funded so KiwiRail can efficiently look after the national rail network.
Cancer patients won't have access to essential meds.
Our children will knowingly be given lunches of lesser nutritional value.
The maximum tax cut will be available to less than 3k families in the country.
A couple on super will get the colossal amount of $4.00 extra in "tax relief" per fortnight.
But landlords can claim significant tax rebates on their rental income.
Writ large - these are the priorities & values of a gvt with privilege and meanness at its centre.
#NZBudget #nzpol
I had a Tory mate tell me he was unable to make today's hīkoi because as a member of the silent majority he had to keep the wheels of industry moving.
Cheers to Spiderhoof' for this sped up footage of the numbers marching against this racist corrupt #NZPol govt in Tāmaki Makaurau today.
#NZBudget #Budget24 #ToitūTeTiriti #NZPol #TangataWhenua #TangateTiriti
"In the normal course of events, almost everyone asked to seriously comment on the Budget will be tertiary educated, probably home-owning (with mortgages, or not), and disproportionately from households whose incomes are higher than average.
So, we’ve driven north. The less beaten track. Why north? Well, the New Zealand Index of Multiple Deprivation has been here before us. "
NZ Government priorities:
- Cuts
- Compliance
- Corrections and
- Cruelty.
The way they're beefing up Defence Forces and Police I'd add Force but not necessarily Law and Order. Cuts will result in disorder in too many areas.
Cuts to
- biosecurity
- internet secrurity
- investigating child abuse and online harms
...
#nzpol #NZBudget #Budget2024
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350271271/5-departments-set-budget-boosts-amid-public-service-spending-cuts
"Nicola Willis’ big tax-cutting Budget for 2024 due on May 30 is shaping up as the heir to Ruth Richardson’s ‘Mother of all Budgets’ in 1991, which traumatised a generation and cost the National Finance Minister her job two years later.
...
The difference is Richardson’s swathes of cuts to the social safety were forged in the midst of a true fiscal and financial crisis for the Government, ..."
#NZPol #NZBudget #Aotearoa
https://thekaka.substack.com/p/paying-for-tax-cuts-by-not-funding
Ministry confirms funding pulled for new insulin pumps & glucose monitors, raising carer fears of 'Dead in Bed syndrome'; Simmonds didn't tell Cabinet of funding halt designed to help pay for tax cuts
Abolishing prescription co-payments saves much more in hospital treatment costs
https://venera.social/display/85a863ed-8864-65ff-86e5-85d723322991
"As Treasury concludes: 'Unemployment levels have consistently remained lower than Treasury forecasts, which anticipated a peak of close to 10 percent at Budget 2020, followed by forecasts of nearly 8 percent unemployment at the Pre-election Update 2020.'
This isn’t spin. This is the Treasury's dispassionate analysis."
#GordonCampbell, 2022
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2205/S00041/on-budget-2022.htm
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