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Jeremy Noble is the director of a small building company and has been building for 23 years. He has always been interested in fairness and equal opportunities for all people. He wants to push forward a new era in sustainability, recycling, stronger family bonds and conscious beliefs of personal responsibility for our planet. Mr Noble believes this can only be achieved by relaxing economic pressures through monetary reform |
Top 5 Issues
- The Reserve Bank should be sole creator and provider of any new money issued into our economy , in the form of an interest- free but repayable loan. The Reserve Bank would use such loans to a) finance new infrastructure projects and b) to make money available to trading banks on request at a service charge only.
- Abolish GST in favour of a simpler and fairer Financial Transactions Tax (FTT), set at a low level and collected at point of withdrawal. The tax is aimed at stopping the rampant speculation in derivatives, hedge funds and currency transactions and to stop the use of robotic computer transactions.
- A Guaranteed Basic Income, payable to every New Zealand citizen, to progressively replace the welfare and Superannuation system. This Income would be also available to University students to finance their studies. Student loans would be abolished.
- Using Reserve bank loans we would build as many state homes as needed to overcome the present shortage of houses, currently about 40,000) and to ensure that homes are available and affordable to all Kiwis.
- We would stop the sale of assets and land to overseas companies. We would withdraw from all free-trade agreements (we prefer balanced trade). I would like to reverse the presently privatised assets. This could be done by giving the IRD the option of taking tax payments in the form of shares rather than cash.
Personal Profile
Authorised by Peter Ferguson of 21 Okoroire Street, Tirau 3410
Questions answered by Jeremy Noble
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Jeremy Noble's Reply
There will always be people abusing the beneficiary system. It’s about helping people in any way we can to rediscover the value of a good days work and contributing to society. I believe that a lot of our people have lost their way and need a little bit of encouragement to be more motivated.
One way would be to ensure a base rate income for all New Zealanders that would reduce at a certain amount per week if the participant does not participate in any weekly activity. This can be paid work or volunteer work. This would effectively do away with the doll. Exceptions would still be sickness, invalids etc.
The other option is to re- educate beneficiaries into fields of interest or niche jobs that will need to be filled in the future. e.g. building industries (CHCH).
I also believe that we need to start at secondary level by teaching life skills that will help the young people to find their way in the real world and give them support to find a direction for their future jobs. A way of teaching life skills could be an on site granny flat where students (yr13) would live for a certain amount of time. They would be all self contained to learn about living in today’s world and all the challenges that come with it.
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- 2011
Dunedin North
Results - Progress
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