$10 Billion Overpaid The MSD overpaid $10 Billion of wage subsidies but has refused to ask for the money to be repaid Reserve Bank figures show that after seven months of wage subsidies, businesses had $22.7 billion more in the bank than a year earlier Business profitability increased by 14% after 6 months of wage […]
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In October 2020 businesses had $22,700 million or 24% more in the bank than in October 2019. At that time there were a lot of reports about a high demand for all types of luxuries including luxury homes and expensive holiday homes and there were waiting lists for luxury cars, boats and camper vans. Businesses
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Few rules mean that we have greater corruption than in other similar countries who have rules to control lobbying, political party donations and the other means by which Government decision-making is corrupted. The Australian Centre for Public Integrity states that ‘if someone adversely affects the exercise of public administration directly or indirectly, this is corrupt
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Billions of dollars should be repaid by businesses who were overpaid or who wrongly obtained or retained Government Covid-19 assistance but no action has been taken to make them do this. Public servants arranged dishonest schemes with loose rules designed to channel as much taxpayer money as possible to businesses. The Auditor-General was very critical
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Public Servants gave away many billions of dollars to businesses and when it became clear that about $20 billion of Covid 19 assistance had been overpaid or wrongly obtained or retained, they did nothing about getting this money back.
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The top priority for political party bosses is to get as much money as possible for social media campaigns and election campaigns. This money makes the difference between winning and losing so they need to give those who make so called donations what they want in order to keep money rolling in each year. There
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Those who pay for access to public servants and Ministers get a big payback so New Zealand should follow what other similar countries did many years ago and introduce strict rules on lobbying. Our democracy is frequently undermined by lobbyists who arrange for promised policies to not be implemented or for new policies to be
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