The Ministry of Youth Development spent $300,000 of taxpayer money making three videos like this one. The first two received less than 200 views each on YouTube, and this one hasn't even been posted there! How many counselling sessions could this have paid for?
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At least these staff have transferable skills for if there's ever a programme run by another gang
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NEW Taxpayers' Union – Curia Poll
Party Best at
Economy - National lead by 22.1%
Health - Labour lead by 6.0%
Leadership - Labour lead by 12.8%
Inflation - National lead by 15.4%
Jobs - National lead by 1.5%
Law & Order - National lead by 12.6%
1000 respondents (2-7 May 2023)
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NEW Taxpayers' Union – Curia Poll
Net Favourability
Hipkins +22% (-6)
Luxon -7% (-1)
Seymour -11% (-5)
Swarbrick -10% (-1 since August 2022)
Kerekere -24% (New)
1000 respondents (2-7 May 2023)
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The seat projection of CR 62 and CL 53 was done before National ruled out the Māori Party.
In future the Māori Party total will be included in the CL, so this poll would be CR 62 and CL 58.
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NEW Taxpayer' Union – Curia Poll
Decided Party Vote: ACT boost means Centre Right can form Government
Labour 33.8% [-3.1]
National 35.6% [-0.9]
ACT 12.7% [+3.2]
Green 7.0% [+0.3]
Māori 3.7% [+0.8]
NZ First 2.6% [nc]
Other 4.5% [-0.3]
1000 respondents (2-7 May 2023)
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Projected Seats
Labour 44 (-4)
National 46 (-1)
ACT 16 (+4)
Green 9 (nc)
Māori 5 (+1)
The Centre Right is in a position to form government with a combined total of 62 seats.
1000 respondents (2-7 May 2023)
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NEW Taxpayer' Union – Curia Poll
Decided Party Vote: ACT boost means Centre Right can form Government
Labour 33.8% [-3.1]
National 35.6% [-0.9]
ACT 12.7% [+3.2]
Green 7.0% [+0.3]
Māori 3.7% [+0.8]
NZ First 2.6% [nc]
Other 4.5% [-0.3]
1000 respondents (2-7 May 2023)
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Milking taxpayers for all they're worth. The GIDI fund shows udder incompetence by the Minister who fails to understand that coal emissions are already governed by the ETS and therefore this money won't reduce one gram of net emissions.
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Chucking Millions Of Taxpayers’ Money At 'Green' Banks Will Not Reduce Emissions
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union slams spurious claims by the Minister for Climate Change, James Shaw, that a $300 Million increase in New Zealand Green Investment Finance’s (NZGIF) funding will… ~~~~~~~~~~ hf3f8e3a 992bba08-8399-4bde-ab97-c1305e64876 SSR-I18N f2c6ac64-eb07-4bf8-bb18-52a36cf153b7 hf3f8e3a ~~~~~~~~~~
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There was nothing wrong with the old Human Rights Commission website, yet $418,000 was spent on a new one. If the Commission has enough money to splash out on nice to haves during a cost of living crisis then its budget needs to be cut to save the taxpayer money.
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The Human Rights Commission's new $418,000 website has a new button labelled "Take a Moment" that takes you to a blank page featuring only their logo. Has anyone else needed some time to recover after visiting their website?
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"Jacinda seems to trust me, why wouldn't you?" - Lifetime Mongrel Mob member Harry Tam.
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Almost half a million dollars on a new website for the Human Rights Commission. What was wrong with the old one?
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How much do you think the new Human Rights Commission website cost taxpayers?
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How much do you think the new Human Rights Commission website cost taxpayers?
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Taxpayers' Union Executive Director, Jordan Williams on The Common Room NZ explaining the inflation tax. Jordan explains why politicians use this sneaky trick to hike up your taxes and makes the case for indexing income tax brackets for inflation.
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Immigration NZ has spent more than $17 million on IT contractors for its new computer system. The system is expected to cost $2 million a month for the next year with $275,000 of that monthly spend going to contractors.
The new system has been described as "an utter disaster"… Show more
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This won't reduce one gram of emissions, it will simply free up carbon credits to be used for emissions elsewhere. Taxpayers are on the hook for handouts for big business. Is this what kindness looks like?
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At least some of this is the governments fault to be fair; the fuel tax hitting taxpayers for a second round.
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The ute tax has been used to fund of $80,000,000 in subsidies for wealthy people to buy Teslas. It is just cruel to push additional costs onto farmers and tradies, particularly those who are replacing flood-damaged utes, to help pay for a Wellington bureaucrat to get a Tesla.
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You really have to feel for the competitors of corporate welfare recipients. Instead of allowing the best companies to succeed, the government is picking winners making it harder for other companies to compete.
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Is the programme just to switch them from meth to caviar?
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Not only will this proposal make people’s lives even tougher, but it won’t even make a shred of difference to the environment. Construction emissions are already governed under the ETS so any reduction would simply free up carbon credits to be used in other sectors.
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25.9% of renters spend more than 40% of their income on housing, if the Government truly cared about reducing the cost of living, they would focus on removing barriers to supply rather than making it more expensive to build houses.
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A cap on construction emissions would unnecessarily drive up construction costs and in turn would result in increased house prices, higher rents and a reduced growth in supply.
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Media Release:
The Taxpayers’ Union is slamming the Government’s plans to implement a cap on emissions from new buildings - a policy which will drive up house prices and put more pressure on Kiwi families during a cost of living crisis.
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END CORPORATE WELFARE. Big business shouldn't be subsidised by hard-working taxpayers, especially when the funding won't even achieve its goal of reducing New Zealand's net emissions.
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In 2013, Youth Parliament cost taxpayers $90,464.78. Last year the price rocketed up to $451,500. What has caused this massive cost blowout?
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Congratulations to the NZ Film Commission for being smarter with their taxpayer funded budget this year! After exposing their wasteful $58,000 spend on a taxpayer-funded junket to the 2022 OSCARs they decided against sending anyone this year.
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Grant Robertson has been caught telling porkies. After saying the ute tax wasn't going up, it did in fact go up the very next day. 🤥🐷
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Here's how lifetime Mongrel Mob member, Harry Tam, is spending the $2.75m in taxpayer funding his company received. More than $100,000 on hiring a van, you would've thought they would just buy one!
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Millions of dollars collected from the Auckland Regional Fuel Tax is sitting collecting dust. Congestion isn't getting any better and the roads are getting worse. If it's not being used, we say it should be paid back to road users.
nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/mo
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While working Kiwis struggle with the cost of living, the government is dishing out millions in taxpayer dollars to big business.
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Taxpayers are forking out millions in corporate welfare subsidies for businesses. If the government is offering free money, these businesses would be silly not to take it but it is a gross waste that won't even reduce New Zealand's net emissions. End corporate welfare.
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Media Release: Are the National Party serious about good fiscal management or not?
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Successful people enable governments to spend money. We need to be encouraging more businesspeople and entrepreneurs to set up shop in NZ, not scaring them away to places where they make no contribution at all to our country.
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Borrowing more money to pump into the economy will only make inflation worse and burden the next generation with higher taxes, more government spending on interest payments rather than frontline services and will make it even harder for them to get ahead.
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Have a listen to Hon. Ruth Richardson's podcast with the Herald's Thomas Coughlan yesterday on David Parker's report and why we should be pushing for a more productive, high-growth economy where people want to invest, take risks and start businesses.
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