By Redbaiter- in the leftist's lexicon, the lowest of the low.

National Govt Redistributes $65 million of Taxpayer Money To NZ Film Industry

NZers worked hard for that $65 millon. The laboured in South Auckland factories, or laid drains on Nth Shore building sites. They picked Kiwifruit in the Bay of Plenty. They sheared sheep in Southland.

All of those NZers working to earn those wages have tax taken from what they earn, and this tax is then dispersed back into the community by bureaucrats and politicians we appoint to the task.

Initially, this tax was taken to cover the cost of only a few basic requirements of government. The armed forces, record keeping, the police force and justice system. However as we have foolishly allowed government to grow, and its power to grow, and elected too many politicians and employed too many bureaucrats, there is now far too much done by government, and far too much is taken from NZ’s working productive sector to pay for it.

People work for their money, and they should have the right to spend it how they wish. They often have families, and they may wish to use their earnings to buy a house, or pay for an education, or put towards a retirement fund.

THEY SHOULD NOT BE COMPELLED TO GIVE THEIR EARNINGS TO WOULD-BE FILM MAKERS.

The Screen Production Incentive Fund (SPIF) was set up in 2008, and now National are tinkering with it, when they should be killing it off.

“…there will be more opportunities for New Zealand film makers to see their projects through to completion, and more opportunities for the industry to showcase its diverse creativity, talent and originality,” Mr Finlayson said.

Read National’s founding principles in the side bar of this blog Mr. Finlayson, especially the pledge “to oppose interference by the State in business, and State control of industry”.

Yet more evidence of how National are weak and impotent and infiltrated by Labourites. Finlayson could sit on the Labour side of the house and with such rhetoric would fit right in.

According to the Govt-

The fund was allocated $68.5 million over five years and was established to ensure the New Zealand industry remained competitive with offshore film incentives.

So far nine feature films have received SPIF funding, including Boy, Separation City and Love Birds. About $20 million remains in the fund and is available for the next two years.

Ridiculous in these hard times that NZ working families should have their earnings looted by fat cat politicians and bureaucrats for this nonsense. Big vote buying government has to be downsized and brought under control.

Its not going to happen until National starts living up to its founding principles. Getting all the treacherous left wingers like Finlayson out of the party would be a good start.

2 responses to “National Govt Redistributes $65 million of Taxpayer Money To NZ Film Industry”

  1. Sika Avatar
    Sika

    NatLab doesn’t run into any abattoir workers, shearers or fruit pickers at gallery opening drinkees and nibbles……lots of the arteest collective tho.

    And imagine the angst if Baz, in a fit of pique about the scandalous lack of subsidies for the yarts, using Other Peoples Money, was to make his annoyance known at election ad time.

    Oh the humanity…..

    Would i rather Key spend my money on these poseurs of would i rather retain my money and spend it on my family?……..guess.

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  2. KG Avatar
    KG

    “Its not going to happen until National starts living up to its founding principles.”
    It’s not going to happen until Kiwis wake up and make sure the Nats suffer at the ballot box for not living up to those principles. But Kiwis won’t wake up. They don’t even know what those founding principles are.
    Even if they did, to a bunch of conditioned, self-subjugating socialists it would be all too scary to contemplate.

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