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Our Tenets
The fundamental beliefs of our Party:
The economic, political and social system should be established and built on the foundations of loving care, truth, justice and honest endeavor.
What is physically possible and desirable for the happiness of humanity can always be financially possible.
Systems should be made for people, not people for systems; any that fail to serve people should be reformed or discarded.
Individual and co-operative enterprise should be the basis of economic organisation.
Where state-owned enterprises are necessary or desirable, they should conform to the same conditions and rules as privately-owned concerns.
The proper purpose of industry is the production of goods and not the provision of employment
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Our Key Policies
Community Credit
Our Policy Will:
Have new interest – bearing debt presently being issued by private banks, replaced by interest-free finance from the publicly owned Reserve Bank of New Zealand
Have interest-bearing local authority and district health board debt, as it matures, replaced with interest-free Community Credit
Remove Student Fees and abolish the students loan scheme
Provide interest-free Community Credit for voter-approved local and regional authority projects
Introduce a Guaranteed Basic Income for all, as of right
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Guaranteed Basic Income
Our Policy Will:
Promote the right of every New Zealander to have an adequate basic income, universally applied.
Provide the guaranteed basic income free of tax
Pay this guaranteed income to every man, woman and child as of right of citizenship
Progressively replace all current benefits and allowances with a guaranteed basic income, regardless of employment, marital status or gender status
Relate the level of payment to age, with more for adults than children, and more for the elderly than working age adults
Retain supplements for the disabled, their carers and housing
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Financial Transactions Tax
Our Policy Will:
Progressively replace GST, income and company tax with a financial transactions tax
Relieve businesses of compliance costs when GST is phased out
Collect the tax through data bank facilities on every bank transaction
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