Micky Savage News Today

A short story about a National Party candidate lost in a storm with the ghost of Liberalism past

My 2c on what I think Chris Hipkins needs to do to win this year's election.

Left wing contrarian Chris Trotter has made some outlandish claims about Jacinda Ardern's recent conference speech.

puts the options open to a capitalist government in Aotearoa/NZ which would shift investment from speculation in property to productive sectors. He prefers a 0.5% land tax to a wealth tax or Capital Gains Tax. But the Labour Government with a majority of seats has written all such taxes off as unpopular with the interests of the property-owning middle class. But for Marxists, such fiddling with capitalist monetary and fiscal policy does not exhaust solutions to the housing question! Part 1: Th...