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Don’t Forget To
Vote
It’s been a long road. Thank you for reading Free Press.
This week is our chance to give themes familiar to Free Press
readers a far bigger voice in Parliament and perhaps government. More
speeches and questions in the House, more ACT MPs on select
committees, more accountability. But, we need your Party
Vote.
COVID’s Been Tough
Some have pivoted and prospered through 2020. We admire the
entrepreneurs and innovators who’ve made the best of this time. For
others, the impacts have been severe. Whichever way this year has
affected you, we all need a better public health response. We have to
accept this virus may not be going anywhere for some time, and get
smarter about how we adapt. We need to maintain elimination with no
more lockdowns and safely reconnect with the rest of the
world.
ACT’s Approach
ACT has led
the debate for New Zealand to become Taiwan-smart about COVID. It
means a dedicated Epidemic Response Unit instead of a jury-rigged
Ministry of Health. It means government sets and enforces clear rules
of the game for the private sector to get on with it. It means
managing risk appropriately, working with the private sector to use
better technology, and comparing our response with the best, not
scaring the people with comparisons to the worst.
The
Debt
Politicians need to live within the same rules as everyone else.
Many households and businesses have had to spend on necessities and
cut out waste. The government needs to do the same, but Treasury now
forecasts 15 years of deficits on current policy. Every other party is
treating the election as a bidding war with borrowed money. ACT’s
interactive Debt
Destroyer puts the choices to balance the budget in front of the
public.
The Opportunity
Our isolation has been our biggest drawback for as long as we’ve
been a country. Being an island nation on a pandemic planet could be
our biggest strength, if only we welcomed investment and innovation.
At the moment, we are a country where it takes nine years to get
consent to take water out of our biggest river into a quenched city.
ACT’s
plan for the economy shows how tax and regulatory reform could
unleash a private sector recovery.
And So Much
More
ACT’s mental
health policy has been widely praised, from even the most unlikely
sources as hard-left blogs. Our small
and medium enterprise policy reaches the forgotten engine room of
our economy. When the Royal Commission reports on the causes of our
nation’s tragedy in Christchurch, it will be necessary to remake our
firearm
laws into the best in the world again. ACT will always stand four
square for free
speech. We also have the clearest solutions for infrastructure
so the next generation can build homes like the boomers did. All of
ACT’s policies including hunting, farming, tourism, welfare, and
environment can be found here.
ACT
Has Momentum
Colmar Brunton are forecasting ACT’s best result ever with 11 MPs
in Parliament this Saturday. A poll of 30,000 Herald readers
found David Seymour won the multi-party leaders’ debate with twice as
many votes as the next candidate. People from all walks of life are
flocking to ACT with their Party Vote. They tell Free Press
they want to elect a genuinely independent team to hold all the others
accountable.
How Good Is ACT’s Team
The more people find out about ACT’s team, the more they find to
like. If you’re interested in our top candidates, please take a moment
to check out their profiles here.
Among them are more business owners, lawyers, engineers, former police
officers, and teachers. It is the highest quality team any party is
fielding and will make a great caucus.
The Final
Push
Due to outdated laws, we are outgunned on TV and radio advertising.
The Electoral Commission does the allocations, giving the large
parties nearly 10 times what smaller parties receive. Thankfully, we
have the internet. ACT has the best digital team of any party and our
ads are cutting through. If you want to help elect more ACT MPs, please
give generously for our final week’s push.
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