Labour have said if you earn under $150,000 a year you need welfare payments from the Government if you have a baby. The following MPs have a salary below $150,000 so if their partner is not working and they (or their partner) has a baby, taxpayers will have to fork out a baby bonus to them under Labour.
- Grant Robertson, Labour
- Shane Jones, Labour
- Jacinda Ardern, Labour
- Chris Hipkins, Labour
- Nanaia Mahuta, Labour
- Phil Twyford, Labour
- David Shearer, Labour
- Su’a William Sio, Labour
- Phil Goff, Labour
- Louisa Wall, Labour
- Andrew Little, Labour
- Moana Mackey, Labour
- David Clark, Labour
- Kris Faafoi, Labour
- Carol Beaumont, Labour
- Megan Woods, Labour
- Darien Fenton, Labour
- Trevor Mallard, Labour
- Poto Williams, Labour
- Clare Curran, Labour
- Rajen Prasad, Labour
- Raymond Huo, Labour
- Rino Tirikatene, Labour
- Meka Whaitiiri, Labour
- David Clendon, Greens
- Denise Roche, Greens
- Gareth Hughes, Greens
- Holly Walker, Greens
- Jan Logie, Greens
- Julie Anne Genter, Greens
- Kevin Hague, Greens
- Mojo Mathers, Greens
- Andrew Williams, NZ First
- Richard Prosser, NZ First
- Brendan Horan, Independent
- Phil Heatley, National
- Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi, National
- Ian McKelvie, National
- Simon O’Connor, National
- Paul Foster-Bell, National
- Claudette Hauiti, National
So the question I would ask each of those MPs is if they agree it is a good use of taxpayer money to give them a welfare payment of $3,000 a year if they or their partner chose to have a baby? Do they think that on their salary of $147,800 that taxpayers should be giving them welfare payments if they or their partner have a baby?
Political commentator David Farrar posts at Kiwiblog.
David Farrar
Tue, 28 Jan 2014
Tue, 28 Jan 2014
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