Letter to the Editor: Kiwi style or American style?
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FROM: "f.macskasy" SUBJECT: Letters to the editor DATE: Wed, 14 May 2014 23:59:33 +1200 TO: "Dominion Post" <letters@dompost.co.nz>.
The Editor Dominion Post . I am dumbfound. Absolutely gobsmacked. With New Zealand's sovereign debt now around $60 billion (as at November 2013) and having increased by $27 million a day since National took office - John Key is kite-flying with suggestions of further tax cuts?! Is this how National exercises fiscal responsibility - bribing voters with yet more unaffordable tax cuts? Previous tax cuts in 2009 and 2010 were paid for with assets sales; taxing children on their paper rounds; increasing prescription charges; as well as unsuccessful attempts to tax carparks and cellphones. Currently, National is planning to sell off 5,000 State houses that were once homes to low-income families. Instead of tax cuts, New Zealanders might care to tell the Prime Minister that we should be funding education so that parents don't have to fork out $357 million a year in so-called "voluntary donations" and spend long hours fundraising to pay for supposedly "free" schooling. It is patently simple. We can have free education and public healthcare. Or we can have tax-cuts. But we cannot have both. This is the moment we decide whether we want public services for all New Zealanders, regardless of their financial circumstances - or an American-style user-pays. I hope we choose wisely. -Frank Macskasy [address & phone number supplied]
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References
NZ Herald: Parents fundraise $357m for ‘free’ schooling
Fairfax media: Public debt climbs by $27m a day
Radio NZ: PM John Key dangles tax cut carrot
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No prizes for guessing which Key will choose! I have listened to 1ZB for the past two days, and now I understand why the hard-of-thinking vote National… 😦
Deb
Careful, Deb. Talkback Radio should carry a Mental Health Warning… Shall we say that quite a few callers are not “the full quid”?
That’s very true. I did it because I wanted to hear what they are up to. Not again! (Unless I forget my common sense)
Deb