But the Greens’ commerce and consumer affairs spokesperson Ricardo Menéndez March told RNZ that was only “one part of the puzzle” and the government needed to explore all its options – including breaking up the supermarket duopoly.
“While we support having new players in the market, Nicola Willis is banking on big corporations coming into Aotearoa, and that automatically leading to lower prices,” Menéndez March said.
“What we need is action that tackles the greed we are seeing in the duopoly right now.” …
Menéndez March also pointed to the Greens’ policy of taxing excess profits as an option …
Even for the Greens, this is a level of stupidity that is hard to imagine.
They are saying that food prices are too high, and that the way to lower them is to increase the tax on supermarkets!
This type of reasoning wouldn’t even get you NCEA Level 1!
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders
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