Labour and the Greens have both launched campaigns asking their members and supporters to help payback their election over-spending debt. As far as I am aware ACT has not.
As I said previously I am not voluntarily paying for other people's mistakes. We get enough of that through taxation.
So it makes me quite sick to see the collective mentality at work with the first two parties. In our 'caring and sharing way' let's all be responsible for this cock-up. Well it wouldn't surprise me if members and supporters don't quite see it that way. At least one commentor on the Frog blog doesn't.
"I personally think that the MP’s wages should pay at least two thirds of the debt, if I even cared about recompense, because if we as individuals over spend to get a job then the money comes from our pocket’s. Or maybe a vote of confidence within the party’s and the for and against vote became the quotient the sitting member’s were liable for. Taking away some of their privilege might get them thinking more about what it’s like to be us… responsible for our action’s."
It must have passed the commentor by that the Greens are not into individual responsibility.
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Rodney Hide paid it himself
Socialist theory is great until socialists are asked to pay.
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