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50,000 Kiwis Add Name To Petition Opposing Skypath Boondoggle - Billboard Campaign Launched
Sunday, 13 June 2021, 4:57 pm | Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union ’s petition to withdraw taxpayer funding for the proposed $685 million cycle and pedestrian bridge has reached 50,000 signatures many of whom have chipped-in to a crowd-funded billboard effort to spread the word. ... More >>
Fact Check: Taxing The Poor For Tesla Handouts Doesn’t Even "Drive Down Emissions"
Sunday, 13 June 2021, 4:46 pm | Taxpayers' Union
The proposed penalty on ‘gas guzzling’ vehicles is a painful, regressive tax, and does zip for saving overall emissions due to transport already being in the Emissions Trading Scheme points out the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union. “This is the sort ... More >>
Taxpayers Should Not Pay For Hollywood Propaganda
Friday, 11 June 2021, 1:53 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is condemning the prospect of taxpayer funding for a new film about Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s response to the Christchurch mosque shootings. It is reported that the production team intends to apply for a Screen ... More >>
The Most Open And Transparent Government Should Not Take A Year To Supply Official Information
Friday, 11 June 2021, 11:42 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The fact that it took Radio New Zealand a year to get a response to an Official Information Act request about a heated bureaucratic turf war between the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) and the Ministry for Primary Industries ... More >>
Congestion Charge: Minister Must Rebuff Revenue-hungry Councils
Thursday, 10 June 2021, 1:06 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Responding to the Transport Minister's suggestion of congestion charging in Wellington , New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union spokesman Louis Houlbrooke says: “Minister Wood says that congestion charging is not meant to ‘primarily’ be a revenue raising ... More >>
Costly, Ideological, Egregious: Climate Change Commission Report Doubles Down
Wednesday, 9 June 2021, 1:59 pm | Taxpayers' Union
“The Climate Change Commission has thrown a bone to a few sectors while doubling down on the most egregious and costly aspects of the plan,” says New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union spokesman Jordan Williams in response to the release of the Commission’s ... More >>
20,000 New Zealanders Back Petition To Withdraw Funding For SkyPath
Wednesday, 9 June 2021, 11:33 am | Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union ’s petition to withdraw taxpayer funding for the proposed $685 million cycle and pedestrian bridge has reached 20,000 signatures. The petition can be signed at www.taxpayers.org.nz/skypath . Union spokesman Louis ... More >>
SkyPath 2.0 Is A Slap In The Face For The Working Class
Friday, 4 June 2021, 9:59 am | Taxpayers' Union
Responding to the announcement of a $685 million dedicated cycle bridge to replace SkyPath, New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union spokesman Louis Houlbrooke says: “Today’s latest budget blowout brings the cost of SkyPath to $370 for every household in the ... More >>
Government Should Say Bon Voyage To America’s Cup Bidding War
Wednesday, 2 June 2021, 9:47 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is calling on the Government to abandon its futile bidding effort to host the America’s Cup defence. Union spokesman Louis Houlbrooke says, “The Government is engaged in a taxpayer-funded bidding war with some of ... More >>
$300,000 To Study Tinder? Marsden Grants Deserve Greater Scrutiny
Tuesday, 1 June 2021, 9:36 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers Union is questioning the cost of Marsden Grants awarded to academic research of dubious value. 259 grants were awarded in the last two years, accounting for $158 million of public money. The full list of Marsden Grants awarded in 2019 ... More >>
OP-ED: Enforce Electoral Laws – Let’s Do This!
Wednesday, 26 May 2021, 4:46 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Faced with a steadily growing number of electoral finance investigations by the Serious Fraud Office, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern stared kindly into the camera and intoned, “we should be looking at the way our regime works. Clearly, it's not currently, ... More >>
Secrecy Continues At Christchurch City Council As Crucial Report Withheld From Ratepayers
Tuesday, 25 May 2021, 11:48 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Christchurch City Council’s refusal to release an independent report exposing wasteful council spending is an appalling refusal to be transparent, says the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union . Union spokesman Louis Houlbrooke says, “Christchurch ... More >>
We Should Be Thanking Smokers. Instead, We’re Making Them Miserable
Tuesday, 25 May 2021, 8:50 am | Taxpayers' Union
Next Time You Splutter Your Way Through A Cloud Of Second-hand Smoke, Consider The Plight Of The Poor Sod Who Exhaled It. More >>
16% Rates Hike For Wellingtonians Is Unconscionable
Monday, 24 May 2021, 1:43 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is stunned at Wellington Mayor Andy Foster’s last minute attempt to increase the city’s proposed 13.5 percent rate hike. Union spokesman and Wellington ratepayer Louis Houlbrooke says, “Ratepayers have already ... More >>
Robertson “no New Taxes” Fib 2.0: The New Tax To Fund Astronomical Unemployment Benefit
Thursday, 20 May 2021, 2:18 pm | Taxpayers' Union
The Government’s attempt to bury the new Social Unemployment Insurance Tax (SUIT) is a nasty budget surprise for middle income Kiwis who won’t get a thing from this year’s Budget, says New Zealand’s largest fiscally conservative grassroots group, ... More >>
Return To 1980s-style Social Welfare Will Reduce Long Term Living Standards, Increase Welfare Dependency
Thursday, 20 May 2021, 2:16 pm | Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union says the benefit hikes announced today will reduce the incentive for Kiwis to work, and result in more intergenerational unemployment poverty. It points to Treasury’s forecast increases in benefit costs, despite its rosy economic ... More >>
Government Continues To Throw Taxpayer Money On Housing Bonfire
Thursday, 20 May 2021, 2:15 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Doing the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result is what the Government is doing with housing – the Budget reboots the failed KiwiBuild model for Maori housing. Jordan Williams, a spokesman for the Taxpayers’ Union ... More >>
Homegrown Railway Wagons: Return To 1980s ‘Polish Shipyard’ Economy
Thursday, 20 May 2021, 2:14 pm | Taxpayers' Union
Like New Zealand’s government-protected car industry of the 1980s, taxpayers are set to pay more because politicians have caved in to KiwiRail and its dream to make domestic railway wagons. “The lesson of the twentieth century that central planning ... More >>
Carterton District Council Puts Ratepayers At Risk With Unelected Committee Members
Tuesday, 18 May 2021, 10:36 am | Taxpayers' Union
Carterton District Council’s decision to grant voting rights to unelected marae members on its committees poses serious risks to ratepayers, says the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union . Union spokesman Jordan Williams says, “This change goes beyond ... More >>
Government's KiwiSaver Interference Will Hammer Savings
Friday, 14 May 2021, 10:49 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Government’s announcement that default KiwiSaver funds will be forced to boycott fossil fuel investments will reduce savings, says the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union. Union spokesman Louis Houlbrooke says, "The last thing KiwiSaver members need ... More >>
