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"Our future fund is about a third of the cancellation fee for the iRex ferries"
Cool, bold, inspiring. Not.
Also, not even half of what Mr Car-Brain over here has announced to spend on more car dependency TODAY.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/576442/watch-christopher-luxon-on-515m-spend-up-for-new-roads
Do better, Labour.
@pezmico It's only their first announcement of what will have to be a whole portfolio of policies. Let's not dismiss it just yet. If it is done right it has potential to make a big difference in the long run.
@Salty the idea is not terrible at all. A fund of that nature is actualy good, IMO.
The scale of it is underwhelming, as is labour tradition. This highlighted not only by the size of the landlord tax cuts that got us here, but also as you point out, by the panicked 🥚 announcement of moar car-dependency that's still much larger than the fund itself.
The worst part really though, is page 8 of their policy document here:
https://www.labour.org.nz/futurefund
"We've heard the lesson of last term: too much, too fast."
That is exactly the same line he used to justify his "policy bonfire" when he took over from Ardern.
receipt:
https://newsroom.co.nz/2023/01/21/labour-mps-gather-to-choose-new-pm/
He's learned nothing, is what I worry.
He is signalling to campaign on doing fewer things, but also slower?
After seeing the speed with which the current lot move?
It makes me wonder why labour's first move is to mitigate any fear of tax reform... which is btw, what most of their voters want.
@pezmico While it will be interesting to see how much Labour will commit to tax reform at the outset, the Greens will be pushing hard on their policy which does have major reforms. Hipkins is not as weak as Luxon but I expect there will be some amount of dog-wagging to agree to, or he won't be PM.
We definitely need to see more. More policies, more detail.
@pezmico They're gormless dipshits who can't get their heads around #MMT. Until they do, we are doomed to continue slow-walking into feudalism 2.0 with some flavour of regressive nazis in charge.
All centrists are good for is delaying the onset. They won't fix anything structural and they consider it sufficient to put a kinder, gentler face on neoliberal destruction of the commons.
@pezmico ooo how many National voters own properties they’ll buy to make roads.
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