Expanding the economy, employment and wealth
Creating employment is one of the most important thing's a nation can do. Here are a few idea's on how to create more job's and a healthier way of living.
Remove tax on nz made products and produce, increasing tax on imported item's/products and exported products. This will allow nz company's to expand and grow. It will also benefit the country with cheaper healthier eating, plus much more. It's a no brainer to me, what do yous think.
Another idea to increase employment is create non profit dental care and health care. This will also cut down on the country's yearly medical bill thus freeing up money to put into education and development . Imagine a nation with perfect teeth and health with the amount only at cost and no profits going to greedy business owners. This move will create jobs as millions flock to get there teeth fixed at cost.
Last but not least cleaning the rivers and lakes. This will create thousands of job's and if done correctly we would be the most attractive country in the world and our tourism will drastically increase.
I have alot more ideas. Let's see how these go. Sorry if there already been thought of or implemented as these are my thoughts only.
Brian Welman Mon 1 Sep 2014 7:20PM
What about taxing the working middle class LESS and taxing the BIG
CORPORATIONS more instead?
Virginia Toy Mon 1 Sep 2014 7:37PM
I think its important to create jobs that are worthwhile but also make use of technology where it makes sense in terms of best use of energy and natural resources... examples of jobs I think we could have more people doing include:
Possum trapping
Planting around riparian margins in dairy farming areas
Helping to produce food without adding pesticides and pollution to the environment - e.g. running community composting facilities?
Nick Taylor Mon 1 Sep 2014 9:15PM
So what is the history of "jobs"?
People were forced off the land and into factories... in large part by a thing called "The Enclosures", where wealthy land-owners stole the commons, forcing ordinary people to pay rent, just for the right to exist.
Today? They no longer need the labour, but still want the rent. A great many people who aren't wealthy are forced to become landlords themselves, just to make ends meet.
Back in the 60s, wealth-trends and automation trends were such that people were theorising the everyone would be wealthy by default, and our biggest problem would be "how to spend our leisure time".
Instead we have a situation (to give a uk example) where 1/10 working parents now has to routinely skip meals to pay the rent.
What happened? The property market happened.
We're entering an age of abundance. We don't need "jobs" - the prime purpose of which seems to be to pay landlords and banks (to sit on their arses and get fat off the backs of everyone else)... what we need is to end the property market.
so:
1) Land Value Tax and a UBI
2) A Napster of Housing - ie: radically cheap housing (eg: hexayurts etc) on co-op owned, or govt provided land.
John G Mon 1 Sep 2014 9:29PM
A Universal Jobs Guarantee is needed. Government paid full time jobs for anyone who wants one at a low but living wage.
Doing the things that need doing that capital cannot or will not do, or does badly.
The jobs can be decided and organised at a local level to benefit the community at large.
It would eliminate involuntary unemployment and underemployment, boost aggregate demand and thus create a positive employment environment, would be countercyclical to the business boom/bust cycle and eliminate bad jobs in the private sector by giving people the no thanks option when 'negotiating' with private employers.
Hugo Kappes Tue 2 Sep 2014 9:42AM
we could start by getting rid of all the overseas investors from our property markets, give them 3 years to sell or be sold. If this wasnt enough to make housing affordable then limit the number of residential properties that any one person could own, houses are for people not profit, lets bring some humanity back to the world.
Kristian Thompson · Mon 1 Sep 2014 2:32PM
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