"Streamlining and simplifying the Resource Management Act is an important part of the new Government's programme."
So reads the press release published by the Beehive's in December 2008.
I turned 30 this week and I realised that the National Party has spent more than half my life doing RMA reform without delivering any. When asked why the RMA still hadn't been reformed, Chris Bishop replied with, "No disrespect but the idea you can completely replace the RMA in 12 months is wrong. Well you could but it wouldn’t be a quality product."
It's been nearly 17 years now. What did they do the last time or the time before that? Surely the old drafts could have been ready to go on Day 1.
The other story that sent me back in time was Seymour’s driving of a land rover up the steps of Parliament for charity. That same land rover had been up Parliament’s steps in 1948 and the stunt of driving a vehicle up those steps had last been repeated in 2003 by a National MP protesting the “fart tax”. It was successful and the tax dropped by Labour, yet the eventual climate scam taxes levied by National have been far worse.
In 2023, National campaigned on abolishing the "ute tax", but left the Clean Car Standards in place. Over $7,000 in price hikes for some imported vehicles are on the cards this year. Granted, they did water down what would have added over $5,500 to the average car, but the framework was left in place and the requirements become more onerous when the sales of electric cars slump.
One of the criteria for the size of the non-ute tax is… you guessed it: weight. Enter the “ute tax lite” under National. There has been no legacy or new media attention on this story even though new cars have gotten much more expensive this year and will continue to get more taxes heaped on every year.
In addition, the Paris Accord targets will cost the economy billions per year whether they're met or not. In 2003 a National MP drove his tractor onto the steps of Parliament to protest the "fart tax" yet the current regime is far more onerous than that tax promised to be. National has now spent over 20 years running on a strategy to implement lite versions of Labour’s climate scam taxes and a similar amount of time running on a strategy to reform the RMA that never materialises.
I’m definitely getting a lot older, but the National playbook to scam voters is frozen in time.
Dieuwe is the editor of Right Minds NZ. - where this article was sourced. In addition to conservative politics and reactionary thought, he likes books, gardening, biking, tech, reformed theology, beauty, and tradition.
It's been nearly 17 years now. What did they do the last time or the time before that? Surely the old drafts could have been ready to go on Day 1.
The other story that sent me back in time was Seymour’s driving of a land rover up the steps of Parliament for charity. That same land rover had been up Parliament’s steps in 1948 and the stunt of driving a vehicle up those steps had last been repeated in 2003 by a National MP protesting the “fart tax”. It was successful and the tax dropped by Labour, yet the eventual climate scam taxes levied by National have been far worse.
In 2023, National campaigned on abolishing the "ute tax", but left the Clean Car Standards in place. Over $7,000 in price hikes for some imported vehicles are on the cards this year. Granted, they did water down what would have added over $5,500 to the average car, but the framework was left in place and the requirements become more onerous when the sales of electric cars slump.
One of the criteria for the size of the non-ute tax is… you guessed it: weight. Enter the “ute tax lite” under National. There has been no legacy or new media attention on this story even though new cars have gotten much more expensive this year and will continue to get more taxes heaped on every year.
In addition, the Paris Accord targets will cost the economy billions per year whether they're met or not. In 2003 a National MP drove his tractor onto the steps of Parliament to protest the "fart tax" yet the current regime is far more onerous than that tax promised to be. National has now spent over 20 years running on a strategy to implement lite versions of Labour’s climate scam taxes and a similar amount of time running on a strategy to reform the RMA that never materialises.
I’m definitely getting a lot older, but the National playbook to scam voters is frozen in time.
Dieuwe is the editor of Right Minds NZ. - where this article was sourced. In addition to conservative politics and reactionary thought, he likes books, gardening, biking, tech, reformed theology, beauty, and tradition.
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