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ACT’s regular
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The Road to
Serfdom
Mugabe’s (and, more importantly,
the people of Zimbabwe’s) demise reminds us of F.A.
Hayek’s classic work The Road to Serfdom. Hayek
maps out how government ownership of private property begets
government control of all our lives, and only the nastiest
among us have the desire and ruthlessness to run such
all-powerful governments. You won’t hear it from the
mainstream media, but Zimbabwe, Venezuela, and North Korea
all have one thing in common: socialism.
Shouting Down the
Socialists
Young Nats have been animated by
David Bennett giving them something (other than Partnership
Schools) to believe in with his fiery anti-socialist speech, where he
used the word socialism or socialist every 20 seconds for 10
minutes running. As is so often sadly the case, he followed
this up by voting to extend (taxpayer) paid parental leave
to 26 weeks.
NZ Politics in a
Nutshell
Bennett’s word-action disconnect
captures the reason why New Zealand is a socialist country.
The left pillage the taxpayer, National howls blue murder,
then joins in. Helen takes us on a step to the left, John
holds the line for a few years, then Jacinda takes us
another step left…. What next?
Teal
Deal 2020?
Elements in the National Party
would like to buddy up with the Greens after 2020, accepting
Prime Minister Ardern’s policies just as John absorbed
Helen’s. The net result is two giant steps to the left in
20 years with no real fight back except for partially
privatizing a few power companies and ACT’s Partnership
Schools. There’s got to be a better way.
Don’t Cry for Me
Aotearoa
Looking back ten years from now,
historians might say something like: New Zealand got
world-class policies thanks to Roger Douglas and Ruth
Richardson. First Past the Post made coherent reforms
possible, then MMP locked the policies in (sort of).
Unfortunately, MMP also made every election a bidding war.
Every coalition of the left expanded Government, then every
coalition of the right marked time unable (and mostly
unwilling) to do anything about it. Gradually, we got same
kind of high tax, low growth European Welfare State that
most countries with proportional representation have.
There’s Got to Be a Better
Way
ACT stands along in parliament standing
for personal responsibility, low taxes, and pushing back the
every widening regulations that gradually erode our living
standards from what they should be. This country does not
belong to the socialists, but they are winning politically.
We accept that ACT has not performed in the polls, but that
acceptance starts the path to better performance.
Join Us
ACT Members have
recently received a comprehensive survey on the party’s
values and strategy. The survey is a precursor to a series
of regional conferences in the new year. If you believe New
Zealand deserves better than a deadly ratchet to the left,
please join
us.
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