Te Whatu Ora doesn't mention how many waitlists are not currently allowing new patients on... I know for a fact you can't even get onto a trans surgery waitlist in Wellington, and I think it's the same around most of the country.
We keep hearing the media go on about so-called Labour “porkies”, but we hear nothing about National’s big lies.
A labour junior staffer said on Instagram, “A National/Act coalition will not only cut fees free for first-year students, but they will also add interest back on ALL current student loans.” Labour took it down immediately. Although National said it is untrue, we don’t really know what ACT in collation with National will do. National had reversed interest-free loans in their last reign. National also reversed its election policy about “no new taxes” and then went ahead once elected to raise the regressive GST tax. So, it remains a distinct possibility.
We know that “Willie Jackson, in a debate said National and Act would scrap the minimum wage.” Yes, National suddenly pledged otherwise, but coalition partner, Act, who along with National has fought until against minimum wage increases, has pledged that there would be a “moratorium on any further increases”.
Why are the really big “porkies” by the National Party ignored? For example, those thrown about by the National Party leader on TV (28 August) and never retracted? Christopher Luxon claimed that the "government has been the second biggest spender of government money per capita in the world". In reality, OECD figures easily retrievable from their site (with 2023 updates from Statistica and Treasury) demonstrate the opposite, that we continue to be in the lower 1/3 of the OECD in spending per GDP, just above Turkey and Mexico, and for most years on par with spendthrift Japan. Similar OECD charts show that our tax-to-GDP ratio and debt-to-GDP is similar, well into the lower half.
Yet miraculously, Luxon expects us to resolve our health, education and housing problems by spending even less. Talk about “porkies”!
Te Whatu Ora doesn't mention how many waitlists are not currently allowing new patients on... I know for a fact you can't even get onto a trans surgery waitlist in Wellington, and I think it's the same around most of the country.
How does that retraction by labour over ride the ridiculous tax policy and foreign property property balls up that National are proposing???
We keep hearing the media go on about so-called Labour “porkies”, but we hear nothing about National’s big lies.
A labour junior staffer said on Instagram, “A National/Act coalition will not only cut fees free for first-year students, but they will also add interest back on ALL current student loans.” Labour took it down immediately. Although National said it is untrue, we don’t really know what ACT in collation with National will do. National had reversed interest-free loans in their last reign. National also reversed its election policy about “no new taxes” and then went ahead once elected to raise the regressive GST tax. So, it remains a distinct possibility.
We know that “Willie Jackson, in a debate said National and Act would scrap the minimum wage.” Yes, National suddenly pledged otherwise, but coalition partner, Act, who along with National has fought until against minimum wage increases, has pledged that there would be a “moratorium on any further increases”.
Why are the really big “porkies” by the National Party ignored? For example, those thrown about by the National Party leader on TV (28 August) and never retracted? Christopher Luxon claimed that the "government has been the second biggest spender of government money per capita in the world". In reality, OECD figures easily retrievable from their site (with 2023 updates from Statistica and Treasury) demonstrate the opposite, that we continue to be in the lower 1/3 of the OECD in spending per GDP, just above Turkey and Mexico, and for most years on par with spendthrift Japan. Similar OECD charts show that our tax-to-GDP ratio and debt-to-GDP is similar, well into the lower half.
Yet miraculously, Luxon expects us to resolve our health, education and housing problems by spending even less. Talk about “porkies”!