April 19, 2024
Sweeping public service cuts hurt Māori, Pacifica, Beneficiaries, Renters and the working classes
Posted On April 19, 2024
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The sheer scale of public service cut backs is starting to become horrifically apparent as over a 1000 public servants inside Education and Oranga Tamariki are cut in a single day.
The new Government argues they are simply living up to their election promises, but when those promises amount to the mutilation of the common good and vandalising the egalitarian framework of our nation, keeping those promises and pretending that is ‘Democracy’ is nothing more than the tyranny of the majority.
Our public services have been stripped to the bone following our 40 year neoliberal experiment, and the recent slow gains under the last Labour led Government are being thrown out so that this new National led Government can find $2.9billion in tax breaks for the richest landlords!
Oranga Tamariki needs MORE staff, not job cuts!
Our Education system needs MORE staff, not job cuts!
Our Police, our Drs, our nurses, our teachers, ALL our public servants need more money and more resources and that can be done by properly taxing the richest amongst us!
Instead of a progressive taxation framework to properly fund our infrastructure, we are borrowing for tax cuts and taking out of the mouths of hungry children to put more into the pockets of the wealthiest landlords!
This isn’t social policy, it’s culture war revenge fantasies masquerading as social policy so that the Right’s rich donor mates get their interests looked after at the cost of our most vulnerable children!
These public service costs will hurt those with the least most! Māori, Pacifica, Beneficiaries, Renters and the working classes, people who are reliant on public services will be the ones damaged most by these cuts, while the very rich will gain.
This Government is like an anti-Robin Hood, they steal from the poor to give to the rich!
New Zealand should be deeply ashamed of this week.
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