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The right solution for the wrong problem

The regime has been taking a bit of stick about its "policy" of 10,000 new EV chargers , which seemed to have no tracking and no actual mea...

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Strypey 5d ago

"... a loan from the government is just creating a pair of matching asset and debt entries in the government books, and costs nothing."

@norightturnnz, 2026

https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-right-solution-for-wrong-problem.html

Which is why governments ought to hand out loans like candy to anyone with a realistic proposal to build something socially useful, which can't be removed from Aotearoa once its built. Anything from electric rail and shipping infrastructure, to social housing providers in areas short on affordable housing.

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The right solution for the wrong problem

The regime has been taking a bit of stick about its "policy" of 10,000 new EV chargers , which seemed to have no tracking and no actual mea...

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Strypey

Instead of handing out public subsidies to offshore-owned corporations as if they're cars on the Oprah show (you get a subsidy, and you get a subsidy, every corporation gets a subsidy!). Creating a public debt future generations have to service, while often creating nothing socially useful at all;

https://www.democracyproject.org.nz/p/rio-tinto-nz-aluminium-smelter

The NatACTs are the worst for this, but Labour are hardly immune. They gave Rio Tinto free public money to keep the aluminum smelter open too;

https://www.interest.co.nz/business/107254/labour-aims-three-five-year-extension-life-southland-smelter-including-supporting

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Rio Tinto NZ Aluminium Smelter

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