Category: Economic Issues
President Trump wants to re-establish reciprocity in trade to enable the US to strengthen its economic base and rebuild a security umbrella for citizens and allies. His ultimate goal is to use tariffs to switch the US from taxing labour to taxing imports, by using funds collected to lower income tax towards zero for most Americans.
We now have a clearer picture of Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs and how they will affect other trading nations. The “reciprocal” tariffs are designed to impose charges on other countries equivalent to half the costs they supposedly inflict on US exporters through tariffs, currency manipulation and non-tariff barriers levied on US goods.
As a result of policies introduced to meet the demands of the United Nations Paris Agreement on Climate Change, the security of New Zealand’s electricity system has been severely compromised through the increasing use of intermittent wind and solar power. The ultimate objective of 100 percent renewable generation is clearly impossible.
Nothing we do can change the climate because India and China are burning vast amounts of coal and, anyway, real world evidence tells us that man-made global warming appears to be the biggest hoax in the history of the world. Trump and Badenoch have given up on net zero and we should do the same.
As a result of the embedding of the fabricated Treaty “partnership” culture throughout the state sector, and the explosion of DEI initiatives, the public became engulfed in a tsunami of “woke”. But instead of stepping up and dealing with these growing concerns, the PM continues to turn a blind eye. And this is where National has a serious problem.
It is time to call a loud “halt” on our international signings. We should start backing out of the Paris Agreement in lock step with other countries and build a national and then international case to have ruminant methane removed from all research, reduction commitments, or taxing.
Business owners affected by growing iwi control are too afraid to speak out or make formal submissions about DOC’s discriminatory practices, fearing it could cost them their livelihoods. And job applicants stand no chance if they can’t demonstrate total support for the obligatory Māori narrative.
Many State institutions have been captured by radicals, through their biased reporting the mainstream media poisons the public’s mind against the new Government, and tribal leaders continue their lust for power, assisted not only by the public sector and the media, but also by the Courts. That is the reality of New Zealand in 2025.
November 6 was a day of reckoning for the United States. It was the day the American people delivered a regime change by electing Donald J Trump as their 47th President. In what has been described as the greatest political comeback of all times, the 78-year-old went through hell to achieve his historic victory.
The cause of the problem we face is, of course, the inexorable rise in expenditure on super and healthcare as our population ages. While we currently have around 800,000 retirees, by 2061 this number is expected to approach 2 million. At that time the number of workers per pensioner will fall from around four to one today, to just two to one.
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