Leftist New Zealand Govt to Hand Out Stimulus Checks to ‘Fight Inflation’

Breitbart ^ | 05/20/2022 | Kurt Zindulka

[ChicagoConservative27]

The leftist government of New Zealand will begin handing out millions of checks in an attempt to fight inflation, despite government spending typically being a key contributor to inflation.

In order to supposedly combat inflation, which has risen to a 30-year-high in New Zealand, Finance Minister Grant Robertson announced on Thursday that the Labour Party-controlled government would be issuing 350NZD ($225/£180) in checks to some 2.1 million Kiwis in weekly payments over the next three months.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Printing money to take the hard edge off inflation? WTF is this dumb BEEP talking about?

[Nashcash]

Is this from Babylon Bee?

[Oberon]

It’s like putting out a fire with gasoline.

[Red Badger]

That’s like ‘Fighting for Peace!’.....................

[Red Badger]

They cannot compete with reality..............

[Rurudyne]

Or deterring looters with big screen TVs in the parking lot.

[M Kehoe]

Breitbart. I had to look twice.

5.56mm

[Jonny7797]

No, you dont understand. You’re not using enough gasoline.

[caww]

Must be they’re afraid of the population so they’ll do a few hand outs to pacify them. Money does talk.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Pouring gasoline on the fire.

[Steely Tom]

Then when inflation continues to go up, they’ll say it’s because they didn’t give out enough free money the first time. The NZ MSM will enthusiastically agree.

[fuzzylogic]

Anyone supporting this is just outing themselves as somebody whom has zero clue about what causes inflation and how economies actually work.

Unreal.

[Lurkinanloomin]

New Zealand has been disarmed, they don’t fear their citizens.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Finance Minister Grant Robertson

[billorites]

If you liked Sri Lanka you’re going to love New Zealand.

[W.]

Well, he never misses a lunch!

[Dragonspirit]

It doesn’t make sense until you remember: Leftists ALWAYS lie. They lie at all times. They would rather climb a tree to tell a lie than stand on the ground and tell the truth.

They know full well this won’t fight inflation. They are only citing inflation as a pretext to do something they want. In this case, redistribution of wealth.

[Nateman]

...zero clue about what causes inflation..

If there was anything I could teach to a low information voter it would be that inflation is a tax on the poor. We all know it is more than 8%, they simply redefine the items used for the count.

[griswold3]

Money talks. It did coax Georgia into voting Dem in 2020.

[Tench_Coxe]

And this must be how New Zealand will meet increasing power demands: