If the public service stops hiring so many consultants, National Party leader Christopher Luxon says it could afford greater childcare subsidies.
During his State of the Nation speech on Sunday, Luxon promised he would order the public service to cut $400 million from its consultancy bill. That money, he said, would fund a new childcare policy, giving a 25 per cent rebate to most families’ childcare bills.
The childcare rebates were expected to cost about $250 million per year, and would be available per household – not per child.
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Luxon and National are going to stop spending on consultants and instead splash that cash on providing subsidies for the middle classes so someone else can raise their kids.
Hmm, not very conservative is it?
This is nothing other than a shameless appeal to middle-class women, to get them to move from Labour to National. He’s ostensibly replacing one-off consultants costs with intergenerational costs to the taxpayer via subsidies for childcare.
There must have been some massive donations to National from the childcare sector, who are going to benefit enormously from such subsidies.
Here’s the thing: they’ll never rein in those consultants’ costs, either. The bureaucrats know how to keep a good thing going.
What we will see is increased impost by way of subsidies and the consultants’ bill remain the same, meaning the state has expanded yet again.
There’s a name for that – Socialism – and here is the National Party wrapping their arms around expanded state services like the good little socialists they are.
‘Vote National to change the Government’, those with blue blinkers on say, except the Government doesn’t really change: they are still socialists, but now they wear blue shirts.
Cam Slater is a New Zealand-based blogger, best known for his role in Dirty Politics and publishing the Whale Oil Beef Hooked blog, which operated from 2005 until it closed in 2019. This article was first published HERE.
3 comments:
Quite right Cam.
Unfortunately NZ has become wedded to socialism in its present form as practiced here. Any party who wants to change state dependency, and advertise it, is history.
So it is now very dangerous to be industrious?
( A life of indolence paid for by someone else is not a plan which will last long.)
sending your kid to ECE is a choice, not a compulsion. why does this decision need a state subsidy?
on the other hand, if ECE is being treated as a daycare to allow parents to work or work longer, i'm sure they can do a cost-benefit analysis to make a sound decision either way.
if at all one wants to support working parents, the best option would be to remove the irrelevant restrictions on running day care centres. besides a police clearance to vet pedophiles and an inspection to ensure safety of little ones, nothing else should be of state's interest.
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