Royal New Zealand Navy Discussions and Updates

[Rob c]

NZ needs a higher tax take, capital gains, wealth tax, inheritance tax, higher personal tax, and the retirement age needs to be increased to 67 at a minimum with gradual increase to 70 over a 10 year period, new roads need to be tolled.

We need to secure our future, get back to a world class health and education systems, have secure and affordable housing for everyone, and we need secure energy which needs to be a combination of renewables, geo thermal and more hydro and we need a defence force that is small yet modern but able to respond to humanitarian and natural disasters and patrol our part of the world.

For reference we had the lowest persnal tax rates in the OECD before the recent tax cuts. We must also look to our very economic system which was introducded in the mid 1980's at which point we were in the top ten GDP per person and ar now 24th and heading down. ( 40th on a GDP ppp Basis)
However fixing everthing would be in vain if we lose our sovereignty by not having a defence force that can defend us from outside aggression and we lose our freedom because we fail to protect it.

 

[John Fedup]

However fixing everything would be in vain if we lose our sovereignty by not having a defence force that can defend us from outside aggression and we lose our freedom because we fail to protect it.

NZ isn't the only country with pollies and citizens that can not figure this basic fact out.