The post critiques high government spending as a disproportionate share of GDP, comparing it to military spending and referencing economic theories on optimal taxation and intervention.
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Now Greg's actually texted me, he's texting, absolutely 100% correct. And someone else is saying, what about everyone saying whatnot? But there we go. Hey, look, Andrew Little started talking about the unelected council board members, so I will as well. And I thought to myself this morning, what a busy 12 hours for Simon Watts. The local government minister unveiled his new policy yesterday that stops unelected council board members voting on those boards. And now he's been interviewed not once, but twice on News Talks B. Last night with me, this morning with Heather. And this morning with Heather, they ran through the numbers of exemptions that will not be covered by the changes. And there seems to be an awful lot of unelected board members who will still be able to vote. Last night he was a little less cautious in talking, and he said the quiet bit out loud. If the voting rights of those boards have been part of a treaty settlement, then they will be exempt because they were part of a binding agreement between the Crown and EWE that is signed into legislation. And to turn that round would take a massive legal fight. And that's a fight that the National Party is not prepared to get into, partly because some of these treaty settlements, of course, they were the architects of. And last night it led me to ask Simon Watts, well, actually, there's still going to be a lot of unelected people voting. And whether the changes he made was virtue signalling, you know, a headline that changes little but raises political capital sounds good. He denied that. But hello, come on. This all reminds me of the whole treaty principles debate where Nashville supported the conversation until after the first reading, and then they shut it down. They had no intention of carrying it through. They were virtue signaling. Simon's changes yesterday solves the far north situation, but not the whole issue. What it does do is take away some thunder from Axe push to revoke Māori rights and governance, and maybe that's good politics in election year. They'd like the refugees who ran to act to come home to national. But make no mistake, National has no desire to take away Māori voting rights in our councils.
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