Bryan Gould’s latest article points out the need for New Zealanders to do more than simply notice the income equality gap. We also need to act in favour of closing it. This year that means voting for parties whose policies address inequality.
Concern versus action
Closing the Gap RSS Feed
- INEQUALITY IS MAKING KIDS SICK
- Media Statement: Capital Gains Tax
- Media release: Scrap the minimum wage and replace it with the living wage
- Media statement: Child poverty bill doesn’t address cause: Inequality
- Media statement: Response to Interim report from the Tax Working group
- Media Statement: Fonterra, home of the poor-performance bonus
- Why something needs to be done smartly about the homeless
- Press statement: Economic rights are human rights: It’s time to legislate
- DROP THE CAP TO CLOSE THE INEQUALITY GAP
- Economist Jeffrey Sachs warns of fraying societies
Or why not admit no capitalist party can ever reduce inequality as inequality is the very essence of the system. Instead of all the effort spent on campaigning for parties that are the lesser of two evils (and do we really have a choice anyway under the neo-liberal consensus which is in effect a dictatorship of the rich for the rich) we should be spending time looking for alternatives way of organising production and distribution to ensure a just allocation of resources.