The Molesworth and Featherston has also noticed Mr Key's activities. (My criticism yesterday was not of what he did but how he drew further attention to it in such a self-serving manner.)
The Key to wealth and ignominy
National's finance spokesman John Key has always impressed us, as he has most political watchers. So, we are here to help.
You put your foot in a potentially steaming one, John, with that decision to take out a mortgage on the Wellington digs to take advantage of a perk available to MPs. (It became known through the otherwise innocuous – because it does not give details of size of wealth and assets – register of MP's assets.)Yes, most MPs structure their affairs to take advantage of the freebie. Yes, it is a rational economic decision. But are you not mega-wealthy? Can't you make more than the average wage on those Merrill Lynch shares every time the currency yawns and stretches? You are also fond of berating the Government for providing middle-class welfare through things like the Working for Families extension – as you did last week in this newsletter. Well, sorry John-boy.
Is this not middle class welfare capture extraordinaire? Do you need the cash? It is costing those poor taxpayers you are fond of saying need relief. Take our advice. Pay off the mortgage with your loose change and lance a potential boil before Labour wakes up to it.
If only these were the roles of the US President
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8 comments:
If he's entitled, he's entitled.
If the expense claims are within the rules then that does not allow us to ask if an MP 'really needs the money'. That's a disgusting stance to take. Quite a socialist one, actually.
Key has the right to extract the maxiumum allowable under the rules from his current position. End of story.
Don't like it? Change the rules. Don't attack someone who acts within them.
Absolutely! It shouldn't matter how much money he might have - he is entitled to the allowance and I don't blame him for taking it either.
You're missing the point - John Key is maintaining a flat in Wgtn that he wouldn't need to unless he was an MP. So he deserves reimbursement for the expense.
If he stayed in a hotel instead the taxpayer would stump up for that as well and you'd be none the wiser.
Why is it I get sooooo many anonymous comments on my blog???:-)
I don't know who they are from or who they are addressed to - me or the authors of Molesworth and Featherston.
I didn't much care for Key's action but he was entitled. What I thought imprudent was his response to the criticism.
Ok, ok! I'll come out of the woodwork. Anonymous no more. It was just easier to click on Anonymous, that's all.
And yes, I agree that his explanation let him down, not his actions.
Fancy seeing you here belt ;-)
I simply hate people who tell others how to spend or save their money.
Maybe I was a bit short, so let's start over. Isn't this exactly what the government always does?
You're too rich, you have to pay. You're too poor, let us help you make even more poor by making you and your kids forever dependent on us.
Wanting to take over the spending of others is a sure sign of a leftie.
John Key should take all the advantage of the rules just like everyone else can. If we are going to be the judge who can and cannot take advantage of the rules, we end up like Helen Clark. Everyone knows the rules don't apply to her.
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