{"id":273,"date":"2011-10-10T08:02:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T08:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neweconomics.net.nz\/?p=273"},"modified":"2011-11-11T03:13:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T03:13:19","slug":"summary-of-policies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neweconomics.net.nz\/index.php\/2011\/10\/summary-of-policies-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Summary of policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SUMMARY OF POLICIES<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_275\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/neweconomics.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/nz-economy-pie.jpeg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-275\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-275\" title=\"nz economy pie\" src=\"https:\/\/neweconomics.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/nz-economy-pie.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-275\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An isolated economy can still thrive after global peak oil production<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A National Plan for a 4-6% \u00a0annual decrease in oil use to be publicly discussed, together with a plan to implement if an oil tanker doesn\u2019t arrive.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The privatised and damaging money creation system we live with must stop. We would reclaim the public\u2019s right to create and control their means of exchange (currencies) and would distribute this power through many levels.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We advocate an integrated multicurrency system, with prudential supervision at every level.<\/li>\n<li>\u00b7 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Iwi, local government, communities all to be encouraged to create their own currencies.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Banks would be prohibited from creating new national money. This function would be performed instead by a special committee within the Reserve Bank. Banks would then be intermediaries between saver and borrower as they should be.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Because we address the money supply issue, we can deliver on full employment.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 We are green business friendly with no income tax, no company tax, no GST.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Because we address two basic underlying causes, we can deliver on lowering the gap between rich and poor without penalising anyone for working.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The only taxes we have are Resource Taxes including Land Value Tax, a Financial Transaction Tax, Excise Taxes and some Tariffs.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Land values for Maori will take into account Maori values; the imposition of Maori land taxes and rates will be reviewed historically.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We advocate a Basic Universal Income or Kiwi Dividend, and would also investigate decentralising social welfare to local authority level as the dividend may have to be in more than one currency.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We advocate an international currency for international trade created without interest.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Climate change policy dealt with by petrol tax, coal tax and gas tax and a carbon tariff instead of ETS. A plan to phase out oil use would be a priority.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In education, health and social welfare there would be a major decentralisation of the majority of power, so that local communities can influence social wellbeing.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Aotearoa\/New Zealand will become a republic.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rewrite the rules of global commerce to secure the right of each nation to regulate cross-border financial and trade flows.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUMMARY OF POLICIES \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A National Plan for a 4-6% \u00a0annual decrease in oil use to be publicly discussed, together with a plan to implement if an oil tanker doesn\u2019t arrive. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The privatised and damaging money creation system we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neweconomics.net.nz\/index.php\/2011\/10\/summary-of-policies-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neweconomics.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neweconomics.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neweconomics.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neweconomics.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neweconomics.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/neweconomics.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"https:\/\/neweconomics.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neweconomics.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neweconomics.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neweconomics.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}