Politicians squirmed when asked about pay rises this week. It's not their call and the authority that makes the decision has been working on a fundamental review of MPs' pay
its all very well to go on about how stressful the job is or how much people criticise politicians but what comes first the distrust or the reasons for the distrust. politician's have been lying to us for decades while they sell of our state assets cut our wages ,destroy our unions and our right to organise and hello nobody likes us .
as for the argument that better wages means better politicians. No its better wages means greedier politicians. back before the neoliberal fire sale of state assets and freezing of wages in practice people were generally more respectful of politicians. granted that a lot of the abuse is misguide and directed at the wrong people and at time disgusting but when politicians bring in policies that lower wages, force up the price of housing and just about everything else while corporate profits go through the roof and taxes on the rich go through the floor and corporates pay no tax its no wonder there is a bit of scepticism.
I find it utterly incredulous that MP's have the luxury of an independent remuneration authority to set their wages when this is not afforded to EVERY OTHER NZ CITIZEN in paid work. To not provide this is to exist in the Orwellian dystopia of 'all animals are equal but some are more equal than others.' Democracy is a total sham, the rich get richer and the prols get the scraps off the table
its all very well to go on about how stressful the job is or how much people criticise politicians but what comes first the distrust or the reasons for the distrust. politician's have been lying to us for decades while they sell of our state assets cut our wages ,destroy our unions and our right to organise and hello nobody likes us .
as for the argument that better wages means better politicians. No its better wages means greedier politicians. back before the neoliberal fire sale of state assets and freezing of wages in practice people were generally more respectful of politicians. granted that a lot of the abuse is misguide and directed at the wrong people and at time disgusting but when politicians bring in policies that lower wages, force up the price of housing and just about everything else while corporate profits go through the roof and taxes on the rich go through the floor and corporates pay no tax its no wonder there is a bit of scepticism.
I find it utterly incredulous that MP's have the luxury of an independent remuneration authority to set their wages when this is not afforded to EVERY OTHER NZ CITIZEN in paid work. To not provide this is to exist in the Orwellian dystopia of 'all animals are equal but some are more equal than others.' Democracy is a total sham, the rich get richer and the prols get the scraps off the table
"Police minister Mark Mitchell conceded yesterday that New Zealand couldn’t compete with police pay packets on offer in Australia."
Sure we can. We just choose to give tax cuts to landlords instead.
How about tying politicians’ salaries to the median wage?
Would you normally accept a pay rise at your job? Of course you would!