Business encouragement
- With a transformation of the money system, the tax system and the banking system, entrepreneurialism would flourish.
Making Business Easy
Our main policy of issuing tax vouchers backed by land and having them circulate tax free is the most business friendly policy possible. The New Economics Party believes that we must be an enterprising nation and that pragmatic and creative business thinking must be encouraged at every level of our society. Our policies are the most business friendly possible. Little will stand in the way of entrepreneurship for those who create a labour intensive business with fair employment policies, good environmental practices and a low carbon footprint. Clean tech innovation can finally occur at full speed.
Ownership structures. Cooperatives will be encouraged, both workers and consumers cooperatives. The NZ Cooperatives Association would be funded adequately for the purpose.
- Farming would thrive
Exports
Farming and other export businesses will thrive because the NZ dollar will drop with our policies.
Resilience Planing and R&D
EECA’s (Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority) funding will be dramatically increased to assist all businesses to be future proofed against energy shocks. We would invest in research and development.
Small and Medium Sized Enterprises. Since these create most of the jobs, we would focus on supporting them with innovative solutions. Nurturing and mentoring of small and medium sized businesses will be encouraged. Currencies such as the one invented by Strohalm C3 in South America will add to the currency mix and allow confidence to re-emerge so that jobs can be created. This would be a priority for us to reduce unemployment.
Local banks owned and controlled locally. Because we will be decentralising banks, it will be possible for them to invest in local businesses, just as the Bank of North Dakota has been able to over many years. Through the local banks local investors will be able with confidence to invest in local enterprises just as in the 1940s and 1950s when Christchurch people invested in firms like Lane Walker Rudkin.
Currrencies Above all we will encourage business to business currencies by recognising their currencies and accepting them for taxes.