LINDSAY MITCHELL: Waking up to reality
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- Jul 29, 2023
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Today's Labour Party boasts their credentials by raising beneficiary incomes. It's so important to them, that a requirement to report regularly on benefit incomes was instigated on advice from the Welfare Expert Advisory Group (headed by Cindy Kiro who was duly rewarded).
Here is a chart from the latest report. It shows that the average benefit income for a couple with two or more children is now $1212 weekly or $5,252 monthly. This is net. For more detail read the report.
This leaves a question I don't think the left has ever addressed apart from inciting Marxist class warfare whereby beneficiaries and low-paid workers are persuaded to unite in a relentless 'them' and 'us' struggle.
That might succeed so long as a margin between income from work and income from a benefit remains.
What happens when that disappears? What happens when benefits pay more than jobs?
Here's one result
Labour's worst nightmare.
Lindsay Mitchell blogs here
Meant to end in tears and fears. State backed programs have been running for 80 years to create a public that can be milked for tears. The Leviathan state needs mass consumption people to feed and be fed by the bureaucratic industrial complex. At this state crony capitalism and the bureaucratic leviathan are indistinguishable.
Housing is a massive issue intertwined with this. Urban planning fads dominating Councils are responsible for distorting property markets in exactly the same way that the British Town and Country Planning system distorted things there, starting a few decades earlier.
The result in Britain was that by 1979 nearly 50% of the population lived in "social housing" (with far less floor space than the 50% who lived in privately owned property) and yet there was still waiting lists for social housing with millions of people on them.
Without going into the complex reasons of how "save the planet" urban planning fads distort property markets, the result is that in the "still private" part of the market, there will always be…
Maori Paati income and wealth taxes would reduce the income of me and my wife to about that of a couple on a benefit, before paying rates and insurance..
This isn't labour's worst nightmare.
Believe you me, this is a result of decades of decline and what we see now is a direct result of left wing idealogical shit over ordinary people that just wanted to advance themselves by making their own path in life.
This awful soul sapping detritus has been evident for years now, because successive governments have been addicted to votes, and have forgotten about those that matter, and give not a fig to those that pay the freight.
It's not just that.
Look all around you.
See how well this country operates under a banner of greedy , self entitled and utterly deceitful fools, and realize that even though we may rid ourselves of these…
Benefits must be tied to educational courses. Even if they are simple basic gardening. How to grow healthy fresh foods.
If the kids don't go to school when they should, then the benefit is reduced progressively until the child is back in class.
I still think the best way is from a group collaboration and cooperation system by way of a communal setup. Some need the support of others to catch the hopeful outcome of self worth, and eventually becoming a contributing citizen.