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ACT's Giant Pledge Card Submitted by Jameson on Sun, 2008-07-20 04:40.
ACT have released an A4-sized pledge card to out-pledge Labour. For all his egocentric short-comings, it has to be said that Rodney Hide's promises ~ as a whole ~ would certainly take the country a step in the right direction. ........................ 1. Government waste. Cut state spending to Australian levels. 2. Tax. Cut and flatten rates. 3. Local government. Limit to core activities. 4. Public service: Close departments we don’t need, Reduce bureaucracy, Return bureaucracy to non-political role, Limit Cabinet to 12 ministers, Limit Parliament to 100 MPs. 5. Red tape. Get rid of all nutty regulations, Appoint Minister of Regulatory Reform, Pass Regulatory Responsibility Act to set checklist for good lawmaking. 6. Resource management. Reform the Resource Management Act. 7. Education. Create competitive market. 8. Healthcare. Create competitive market. 9. Accident compensation. Create competitive market — as used to work well here. 10. Welfare. Create competitive markets for sickness, invalid, and unemployment insurance. 11. Immigration. Welcome more good quality immigrants. 12. Labour. Allow freedom of contract to make it easier to trial new workers and replace poor performers. 13. Privatisation. Sell state businesses where private firms can serve customers better. 14. Infrastructure. Build better networks (e.g. roads, water, electricty). Replace user charges with tolls that reward off-peak use. 15. Tariffs. Cut remaining tariffs on imports. Strengthen bonds with the US. 16. Housing. Free up more land for homes. 17. Law and order: Bring back private prisons now best practice overseas, Let private firms free up cops for ‘zero tolerance’ policing, Speed up courts (e.g. night courts) to reduce unfair delays. 18. Climate change. Adopt saner policies. Low carbon tax better than carbon trading. 19. Constitutional framework. Strengthen. Adopt Taxpayer Bill of Rights. Pass Regulatory Responsibility Act to set checklist for good lawmaking. Return to Privy Council. Hold referendum on MMP voting system. 20. Families at risk. Appoint mentors to teach parenting and life skills.
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Is it a 'step' in the right
Is it a 'step' in the right direction? ...well, yes it is...but that is hardly saying much.
I have always viewed the ACT party as grossly over-rated and think this worth a 2/10.
Wait until they start all the Compulsion Touting ...points 7/8/9/10: "we will give you freedom by compelling you to choose"
....(and what if some of us prefer not to purchase insurance but will accept the full costs of certain things on the 1/1000 chance it happens?)
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C'mon, Elijah ~ I didn't say ACT had suddenly become a libertarian party; I said this would take us a 'step' in the right direction. Granted there are a lot of pulled punches here, and a good dollop of socialistic reshuffling, but I'm sure you didn't reject the Douglas/Prebble privatisation revolution in the 80's as "Labour party policies dressed as mutton."
I assure you, promises 2, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15 & 17 will never appear on a card with a red background.
If, by some miracle, they were implemented, are you saying they wouldn't take us a step in the right direction?
Pfft...sounds an extremist
Pfft...sounds an extremist socialist pledge card to me...
Points 1 - 5 which will replace one bureaucracy with another
Point 6 is communistic ...'reform the RMA', rather than abolition...(as if 'reform' would make any difference)
Points 14/16 are extremist socialism...
18/19/20 will require an entirely new bureaucracy to implement!
This is pathetic...just Labour party policies dressed up as mutton, and all the more reason to get a candidate in Epsom in the hope we split the vote and Hide is defeated and ACT consigned to an historical footnote.
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