Strypey<p>Maybe Aotearoa needs a nonpartisan citizen's organisation that does what what the Taxpayer's Onion purports to do; evaluate spending by publicly-funded organisations against the public benefits it realistically creates. While also pointing out corporate welfare in its various forms, eg public entities paying rent to property "investors" instead of putting that money into publicly-owned buildings;</p><p><a href="https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/558659/wall-street-style-fit-out-on-the-ratepayer-tab-taxpayers-union-criticises-tauranga-city-council-s-new-office" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rnz.co.nz/news/national/558659</span><span class="invisible">/wall-street-style-fit-out-on-the-ratepayer-tab-taxpayers-union-criticises-tauranga-city-council-s-new-office</span></a></p><p>(1/?)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/TaxpayersUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TaxpayersUnion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PublicSpending" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PublicSpending</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/CorporateWelfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CorporateWelfare</span></a></p>
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Strypey<p>When news media are reporting budget figures for public infrastructure projects, they tend to just quote them verbatim. But it might lead to a more informed public debate on infrastructure, if they reported the costs as per-year estimates. In other words, take the budgeted cost of building or buying something, divide by the number of years it's projected to last, and report it as '$N per year, over P years'.</p><p>(1/?)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/NZPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NZPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PublicSpending" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PublicSpending</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>infrastructure</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/NewsMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NewsMedia</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>Maybe we need a long term decision-making process for <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>infrastructure</span></a> spending that isn't hostage to the shifting political winds?</p><p>What if any capital spending projected to span multiple governments needed a supermajority in Parliament? Or to pass a referendum at an election? Either way, politicians would be forced to take a nonpartisan, long term approach to planning, building and maintaining infrastructure.</p><p><a href="https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=84797662-137a-49de-a8c6-42e15eb957b6" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolit</span><span class="invisible">ics?share=84797662-137a-49de-a8c6-42e15eb957b6</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/podcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>podcasts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/RNZ" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RNZ</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/FocusOnPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FocusOnPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/NZPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NZPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PublicSpending" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PublicSpending</span></a></p>
Estelle Platini<p>"Healthy life expectancy vs. health expenditure per capita"<br>Interactive chart: <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/healthy-life-expectancy-vs-health-expenditure-per-capita" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ourworldindata.org/grapher/hea</span><span class="invisible">lthy-life-expectancy-vs-health-expenditure-per-capita</span></a></p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/healthCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>healthCare</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/healthEquity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>healthEquity</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/healthExpectancy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>healthExpectancy</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/healthLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>healthLife</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medicine</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/physicians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physicians</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/pandemic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pandemic</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/epidemics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>epidemics</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/safety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>safety</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/personalSafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>personalSafety</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/publicSpending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publicSpending</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>India</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>Oh and as for the fairy tale about...</p><p>"... inflation driven by out-of-control Government spending."</p><p>... the evidence says otherwise:</p><p><a href="https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/the-causes-of-and-responses-to-todays-inflation/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">rooseveltinstitute.org/publica</span><span class="invisible">tions/the-causes-of-and-responses-to-todays-inflation/</span></a></p><p>So why do pro-austerity political parties and pundits keep making this fraudulent claim?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/inflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>inflation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PublicSpending" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PublicSpending</span></a></p>
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