
Just look on it as a down payment on environmental protection.
Alf sounds a warning today: bit by bit, New Zealand is in danger of having its economy shifted into the control of iwi.
He sounds this warning on reading of a perturbing precedent being set by an “iwi tax”, or a conservation levy.
It’s for environmental protection, according to
the Dom-Post report at Stuff. Ha!
This (Alf would contend) entitles us to view it as as a protection racket.
This snide thought is reinforced by the discovery that – first up – the levy is being slapped on Ngai Tahu business competitors, presumably to try to ensure they do not remain competitors for too long, and if they do, they will be struggling competitors.
This would ensure the protection of one bit of Ngai Tahu’s business empire as well as the environment.
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