Innovators, creators, producers, inventors. Think of the greatest leaps forward in modern history that have changed economies and how people lived. Think how many were spearheaded by a government bureaucracy. Think how many benefited from being in a high tax economy. Then read this from Wayne Mapp, a man who knows about innovation with his extensive entrepreneurial and military and political background:
The Government is backing innovation to drive New Zealand’s economy forward and raise New Zealanders’ standard of living... Prime Minister John Key today launched the new Ministry of Science and Innovation (MSI)
Think of every single technological innovation in the last 30 years, do you really think there would be more if there had been the MSI?
What else could government do?
How about get out of the way? How about cutting company tax to 10%, so that businesses that do want to engage in research, development and be cutting edge about technology have an environment when they don't see the state taking a third of the "winnings"?
How about opening up the education sector so schools and universities are not dominated by a centrally planned bureaucratically specified curriculum, but that parents can withdraw their children from state schools and take their taxpayer funding with them to free private schools? In other words, let innovators get involved in educating future innovators, not schools dominated by sclerotic unionists whose main philosophy is a burning envy of distrust of business and a politically driven view of the environment and humanity's relationship with it.
How about saying openly and loudly that you don't know what's best and you can't hire bureaucratics who can pick winners either? You would be telling the truth, you'd be confronting the myth perpetuated by the left and most other parties that they can magically rescue the economy and advance it by spending other people's money on bureaucratically assessed beneficiaries.
However, it is clear National is of the left, given it's interest in growing the state. So why vote for more of the same this year?
2 comments:
I recently learned (at last) what a relatives job was. I knew he was very well paid and now know he is the UK Head of Engineering Services for a large American company.
He avoided Government interference, has few GCSEs, no A Levels, degrees or similar qualifications but has appropriate knowledge and ability second to none.
Does Government have plans to take control of the 'University of Life' and will 'Qualified by Experience' be based on an imposed curriculum?
Nothing in life can't be made better by having a bureaucracy for it. Families Commission et al....
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