If you are a hard worker and do your best to get ahead in life, then may I state the obvious: don’t vote Green at this election. I don’t know what these people are smoking but their major overarching policy is to burn a hole in your back pocket quicker than you can earn the money. Marama Davidson is so high in this regard she’s on cloud nine, spouting bizarre nonsense that “tax is love”.
If tax is love then so is stealing which is basically what the Greens are about — stealing your hard-earned money to give to Shane’s nephews on the couch and others too lazy to get out of bed. The word love, as a noun, has two meanings. The first is an intense feeling of deep affection and the second is a great interest or pleasure in something. If Marama Davidson thinks this is how we regard paying our taxes, then Winston is right, the Greens are away with the fairies.
The Greens and Labour keep banging on about fairness. Grant Robertson used the word on ZB when he was asked to comment on Davidson’s “tax is love” comment. The problem with the left is they have an ideological view of fairness which, in the real world, is anything but. The idea that those of us who work hard should fund those lying on the couch is hardly fair. The idea that those of us who work hard should fund the extramarital behaviour of others when, under this Government, the male participant is not required to take any responsibility, is hardly fair.
I don’t mind helping to fund those in genuine need but I object to funding the core voter base of the left who are encouraged onto welfare in return for ticking the relevant box every three years. That’s if they can be bothered going to the polling booth. Welfare and the expansion of the public service are common traits of left wing governments. Having no experience of the outside world, these are the two areas they are most familiar and comfortable with.
The Greens believe in fairies as well as money trees at the bottom of the garden. These come in handy after you’ve drained the “rich pricks” and still need financial means to build the unused cycleways and fund the empty suburban buses plus the lumbering diesel Hamilton to Auckland commuter ghost train. That’s before you get to their other wacky ideas of empty trains running between rail hubs. It’s fast becoming a road-versus-rail election with Judith making another significant road announcement in Palmerston North on Monday.
I read on Backchat that the tax is love slogan was first coined by none other than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Why am I not surprised? These types would have you believe they’re all about love when the truth is they’re all about envy. What you have they want. In their world the haves are obliged to fund the have-nots in the name of fairness. For the most part, there is nothing fair about it.
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