Written By:
KJT -
Date published: 6:04 am, March 14th, 2021 -
49 comments
Categories: benefits, Economy, employment, labour, minimum wage, poverty, socialism, welfare
Tags: economy, housing, poverty, ubi
I believe, as our first Labour Government did, that everyone has the right “to a life” regardless of their perceived ,”value”.
In our country, with its excess of resources and capability, we have no excuse for poverty.
For leaving people behind.
Written By:
weka -
Date published: 11:11 am, March 6th, 2021 -
46 comments
Categories: benefits, Economy, greens, TOPS, welfare
Tags: gareth morgan, no right turn, ubi
A newly published report in the United States on a two year UBI trial shows remarkable results. Is such a trial possible in New Zealand?
Written By:
weka -
Date published: 1:27 pm, November 23rd, 2020 -
21 comments
Categories: benefits, labour, welfare
Tags: emergency benefit, GMI, Guaranteed Minimum Income, migrants, ubi, unconditional basic income, universal basic income
Giving migrant workers access to insufficient welfare is a financial coercion tool of right wing and centrist economics.
Written By:
te reo putake -
Date published: 9:19 am, March 25th, 2020 -
75 comments
Categories: benefits, business, capitalism, class war, Economy, equality, jobs, Keynes, welfare
Tags: grant robertson, ubi
Universal Basic Income is on the Government’s Covid-19 survival agenda. NZ needs it now, and NZ will need it tomorrow too.
Written By:
weka -
Date published: 7:10 am, February 27th, 2020 -
122 comments
Categories: benefits, disability, economy, wages, welfare
Tags: chloe king, precariat, SLP, Supported Living Payment, ubi, WINZ
Please don’t let economists, lefties, the right, or TOP design a UBI until we start talking about bolting welfare on. Here’s why.
Written By:
weka -
Date published: 9:48 am, September 19th, 2017 -
97 comments
Categories: benefits, class war, disability, Economy, election 2017, TOPS, welfare
Tags: #cripthevote, gareth morgan, the big kahuna, ubi, YUBI
Safety nets should be for all people and the best way to ensure that is to design them for social need not as economic tools. Despite Gareth Morgan’s assertion that policy is everything, The Opportunities Party has managed to create a youth policy that is discriminatory.
Written By:
weka -
Date published: 11:47 am, June 7th, 2016 -
13 comments
Categories: benefits, democratic participation, referendum, welfare
Tags: switzerland, ubi
Some context for the debate.
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 8:44 am, June 7th, 2016 -
35 comments
Categories: capitalism, class war, employment, human rights
Tags: debate, switzerland, ubi
Seems the path towards acceptance of the UBI is not going to be smooth.
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 10:28 am, June 3rd, 2016 -
51 comments
Categories: benefits, employment, human rights, jobs, leadership, welfare
Tags: future of work, ubi
Practical trials of an Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) are taking place or are under consideration across Europe. Given the increasing automation of work it’s difficult to see a practical alternative to a UBI in the medium to long term.
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 8:01 am, April 1st, 2016 -
221 comments
Categories: economy, jobs, labour, making shit up, spin
Tags: imperator fish, ubi, unconditional basic income
Imperator Fish warns us of the terrifying cost of Labour’s UBI.
It’s even worse than you think.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 8:00 am, March 31st, 2016 -
117 comments
Categories: benefits, grant robertson, john key, labour, making shit up, national, national/act government, paula bennett, same old national, slippery, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: jordan williams, ubi, universal basic income
Labour’s discussion of a possible UBI is still generating debate.
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 11:19 am, March 27th, 2016 -
200 comments
Categories: class war, economy, jobs, john key, wages, workers' rights
Tags: bernard hickey, ubi
Bernard Hickey makes some excellent points on the Unconditional Basic Income / Guaranteed Minimum Income.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 7:30 am, March 24th, 2016 -
144 comments
Categories: David Farrar, dpf, john key, making shit up, national, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: bradley ambrose, david farrar, flag distraction, ubi, universal basic income
John Key and an array of National sock puppets have misrepresented Labour’s UBI proposal as party policy and as being very expensive when it is not party policy and when a variety of different potential forms have been raised for discussion.
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 1:44 pm, March 16th, 2016 -
95 comments
Categories: us politics
Tags: donald trump, hillary clinton
Results are coming in from Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio in the US primaries. Trump and Clinton take Florida, Rubio drops out.
Written By:
KJT -
Date published: 12:46 pm, January 25th, 2014 -
68 comments
Categories: benefits, class war, Economy, equality, Politics, poverty, quality of life, tax, welfare
Tags:
However, a UBI is a change in distribution of incomes, not an increase in the size of Government.
Progressive taxation is the price of living in a well resourced, pleasant, and cohesive society.
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 2:15 pm, January 22nd, 2014 -
35 comments
Categories: benefits, Economy, tax, welfare
Tags: income inequality, ubi
Income equality is one measure that can be used to indicate the equality of a society. Flip has analysed the 2011 income distribution and show how a UBI (Universal Basic Income) can create greater income equality.
Written By:
KJT -
Date published: 3:37 pm, January 17th, 2014 -
27 comments
Categories: benefits, class war, Economy, employment, global warming, human rights, poverty, superannuation, sustainability, welfare
Tags:
Why a UBI?
Firstly. To overturn some paradigms:
That a great many people should lead poor and constricted lives, so a very few can be rich.
That ordinary people are disposable economic production units.
Written By:
KJT -
Date published: 9:34 pm, January 12th, 2014 -
227 comments
Categories: benefits, class war, economy, Economy, equality, human rights, poverty, sustainability, welfare
Tags:
Those growing up after the 80’s will find it hard to imagine the paradigm shift, that was the rise of Neo-liberalism, in the 80’s, in New Zealand. The colossal untested experiment, it really was, and the huge shift of wealth from the lower and middle classes to the richest of us.
Written By:
KJT -
Date published: 8:47 pm, January 7th, 2014 -
361 comments
Categories: child welfare, Economy, human rights, minimum wage, monetary policy, political alternatives, poverty, socialism, superannuation, vision, welfare
Tags:
New Zealand was once considered one of the best places on earth to live. It could be again …
Written By:
Michael Valley -
Date published: 8:11 am, October 8th, 2013 -
91 comments
Categories: us politics
Tags:
As the US federal government shutdown drags on, an even more crucial point is approaching. The US government will hit its debt ceiling in ten days. If that happens, the results will be cataclysmic. But the Republicans who control congress hardly seem to care. Having gone nuclear already over Obamacare by shutting down the government, they can’t back down over the debt ceiling.
Written By:
KJT -
Date published: 11:58 am, September 5th, 2013 -
232 comments
Categories: benefits, capitalism, child welfare, class war, climate change, cost of living, Economy, economy, employment, equality, families, global warming, heritage, human rights, jobs, minimum wage, monetary policy, poverty, socialism, superannuation, sustainability, tax, uncategorized, welfare, workers' rights
Tags:
The concept of UBI has a long history in New Zealand.
Of course, we already have a UBI for those over 65. Which has been extremely successful at eliminating poverty amongst the elderly, at a very moderate cost by international standards.
Written By:
Marty G -
Date published: 4:29 pm, November 14th, 2010 -
29 comments
Categories: Economy
Tags: jeff rubin, peak oil, sustainability, trade
Economist Jeff Rubin explains that the peak oil crisis is the underlying cause of the global economic crisis and why the economy isn’t shaking itself out of recession as in the past. In the age of peak oil, trade advantages will be overwhelmed by transport costs. The winners will be self-sufficient countries with their own agricultural and manufacturing bases.
Written By:
Guest post -
Date published: 2:40 pm, October 31st, 2025 -
22 comments
Categories: AUKUS, australian politics, China, defence, Disarmament, Japan, nuclear war, Pacific, Peace, war
Tags:
Like the Americans, maybe we should re-name our Ministry of Defence as the Ministry of War. The frigates New Zealand wants to buy can carry long-range Tomahawk Cruise missiles, with lethality so beloved by Judith Collins.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 9:40 am, October 25th, 2025 -
23 comments
Categories: climate change, Economy, Environment, global warming, national, Politics, same old national, science, transport, uncategorized
Tags:
National has announced it will be spending nearly three times as much on Roads of National Significance as it campaigned on and has justified dubious investment decisions by changing how benefits are calculated.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 12:14 pm, October 13th, 2025 -
13 comments
Categories: climate change, national, national/act government, same old national, science
Tags:
In a move that further undermines the country’s response to the climate crisis the Government has halved the methane reduction goal and determined that farms will not pay a price for greenhouse gas emissions.
Written By:
Mountain Tui -
Date published: 11:07 am, October 1st, 2025 -
4 comments
Categories: health, Privatisation, Shane Reti, simeon brown
Tags: serco
The British multinational meeting was first reported by ODT. Plus: Physician Associates spell more danger for the health of our health system
Written By:
Mike Smith -
Date published: 3:10 pm, July 11th, 2025 -
27 comments
Categories: broadcasting, gaza, genocide, israel, journalism, Palestine, Peace, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, us politics, Zionism
Tags:
UN Special rapporteur on Gaza Francesca Albanese’s latest report highlights the corporate role in enabling genocide in Gaza. Utterly predictably, she has been sanctioned by the United States.
Written By:
eugenedoyle -
Date published: 4:30 pm, July 10th, 2025 -
1 comment
Categories: colonialism, Deep stuff, defence, Dirty Politics, history, military, nuclear war, Pacific, Peace, Spying, war
Tags:
On its last voyage the Rainbow Warrior evacuated the entire population of Rongelap. Cancers, birth defects, and genetic damage had ripped through the population after US above-ground nuclear explosions.
Written By:
advantage -
Date published: 11:52 am, April 22nd, 2025 -
10 comments
Categories: Deep stuff, poverty, religion
Tags:
“Let us not be afraid to say it: we want change, real change, structural change. The system has imposed the mentality of profit at any price, with no concern for social exclusion or the destruction of nature.”
Written By:
Incognito -
Date published: 5:36 pm, March 13th, 2025 -
12 comments
Categories: jobs, labour, science, Shane Reti, tertiary education, unemployment
Tags: academic activism, innovation, research funding, united in science, universities
Science and tertiary education are being ignored in NZ, which is just dumb.
Written By:
weka -
Date published: 9:33 am, March 11th, 2025 -
29 comments
Categories: us politics
Tags: claude malhuret, fascism, marco rubio, proto-fascism
“well, I don’t know about a dictator, I said a third world strong man. He’s running for President, so no matter what he won’t be a dictator unless our republic completely crumbles, which I don’t anticipate it will.”
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