The Kiwi Party want another Royal Commission on Social Policy.We have had two Royal Commissions on Social Policy in recent times. One in the 70s and one in the 80s.
The first stressed the principles of allowing beneficiaries to participate and belong (and gave us the DPB) and the second confirmed those principles.
A third commission would see a much stronger lobby for re-stating these principles (which rest on wealth redistribution and ignore the destructive incentives inherent in the process) than any opposing voices. The Kiwi Party must already know the same forces that lined up behind the anti-smacking legislation would line up at a Royal Commission arguing for 'inclusion' 'social justice' and other social democrat warm fuzzy concepts.
I can understand their political motivation for calling for another commission but am very sceptical that it will achieve anything beyond giving another platform to the poverty industry protagonists and keeping printers in work as they churn out volumes of reports.
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I really, really do not understand the fondness for Royal Commissions.
Just another way of avoiding the issue. Whatever the manifold unconstitutional failures, blatant corruption, veniality, and criminality of the current government
reliance on Royal Commissions is not one of them
Governments are elected to govern. Parties should have policy. The Kiwi party should just decide what will appeal to its voters and use that to get elected, then decide what is best for the country and to do that. It's called government.
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