Submission to Whangarei District Council
Submission Date: 09 May 2008
Document Summary:
Non-commercial infrastructure should not be funded like industry at full commercial rates.
Submission to Wanganui District Council
Submission Date: 18 April 2008
Document Summary:
Democrats for social credit (DSC) has long advocated for the right of local bodies, the Department of Conservation and other ministries to have access to credit lines from our sovereign bank, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. We maintain that it is neither economical nor is it ethical for overseas investors to profit from debt raised for environmental projects and essential public capital works.
Submission: Inquiry into the future monetary policy framework
Submission Date: 19 July 2007
Document Summary:
Democrats for social credit (DSC) welcome the opportunity to make this submission on the future of New Zealand’s monetary policy framework. It has been obvious to us for many years that the techniques promulgated by orthodox economists, from the left or the right, do not work for the best interests of a modern society.
Submission to Housing Affordability Inquiry
Submission Date: 20 June 2007
Document Summary:
The Democrats for social credit Party has aims in which ownership of the nation’s capital resources are spread among as many New Zealanders as possible, as stated in our Party’s Tenets and Purposes. Home Ownership is probably the most fundamental property right to which a person or family can lay claim to. For most, it is the first and largest capital investment undertaken, and is the one most closely linked to the individual’s and family’s income.
Submission to Independent Rates Inquiry
Submission Date: 15 April 2007
Document Summary:
Funding of local government expenditure is a complex area, and the financial decisions councils make raise many issues of equity and affordability because of the impact they have on people’s lives.
Submission on Draft NZ Energy Strategy to 2050
Submission Date: 15 March 2007
Document Summary:
Without the conversion of energy there is no economic activity. Without understanding this truism policy makers will continue to make the egregious mistakes confessed on page 41 of the Strategy document i.e. that ‘liberalised market arrangements during the 1990s’ have left us the consequence ‘that there is no longer a central plan for investment in generation’.
Submission on Sustainable Land Management & Climate Change (MAF) Document
Submission Date: 02 March 2007
Document Summary:
Much of the reasoning now promoted in relation to forestry is illogical, based on false assumptions and also convenience of assessment at the cost of accuracy or relevance of data.
Submission on EEC Strategy
Submission Date: 01 March 2007
Document Summary:
Solutions “that provide the best outcomes for the environment, the economy and society” (p.4) can only be identified and implemented if the New Zealand electorate has democratic control over its own destiny so that, if charting a new economic course is necessary, our Government is not constrained by either outworn dogma or private sector interests.
Submission on the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Amendment Bill
Submission Date: 15 August 2006
Document Summary:
Democrats for social credit members are extremely concerned at the potential for this new amendment to the Reserve Bank Act to eliminate the little economic sovereignty left to us in this country.
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