The ACT Party promises that if you give us your party vote and we hold the balance of power after the election, we'll create an economy that gives the average New Zealand wage earner an EXTRA $500 A WEEK - enough to outperform Australia and bring our children home.

How's that for a bribe? Don't believe we can deliver? Then click here and see a pledge card with a difference. A detailed plan to do just that.

Nearly all of the policies we propose are regarded as international best practice. Others will be after we've pioneered them!

Not hard right. Dead right.

These policies will give us the growth we need, so we can afford things like lifesaving breast cancer drugs that countries like Greece can now afford, but we can't.

After fifteen years of gutless governments:

  • The average New Zealand worker is now $450 a week poorer than the average Australian worker.
  • If we were a state of Australia, we'd be the poorest - $100 a week poorer than Tasmania.

  • If we were a state of the USA, we'd be 51st and last - $120 a week poorer than Mississippi.

Is it any wonder so many Kiwis with get-up-and-go have got up and gone?

One thing's for sure. Unless you stop voting for politicians who bribe you with short-term treats at the expense of policies that enrich you in the long run, you'll keep getting poorer and poorer.

John Key is not the key.
Roger Douglas is.

National leader John Key can see that Labour's policies are hurting you. But he needs Labour's voters to make him prime minister. So he won't change them.

He's copying Australian PM Kevin Rudd's strategy of saying 'me too' to the present government's policies. But can you spot the difference?

That's right. Rudd said 'me too' to policies that have made Australia richer. Key's saying 'me too' to policies that are making New Zealand poorer!

There's only one way to save New Zealand. Only one way to bring our children home.

And that's to make sure the ACT Party

New Zealand's Real Economic Dream Team

Left: Sir Roger Douglas, New Zealand's greatest Minister of Finance.

Right: Rodney Hide, environmental scientist and economist, ACT Leader and proud MP for Epsom.

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Sweet! I want a small one -

Sweet! I want a small one - government that is. But most importantly, I want the money. Bring it on!

Yea wow. A powerful,

Yea wow. A powerful, powerful plan. Rock on - I can't wait for it!

A common sense plan to put

A common sense plan to put NZers first not just favoured interest groups that have the ear of this socialist government & a refreshing change from the Nats timid do nothing plans. Good luck!

Visionary leadership is what

Visionary leadership is what we need to sustain one of the best places in the world to live - and that is what I am seeing.

Following on from reading Richard Prebbles book "I've been thinking" I am much better informed and can see the plan and the values behind the ACT party.

Looking forward to the election debates.

The Three V's VISION

The Three V's

VISION VALUES and VELOCITY

Today I joined the ACT party for the first time. I joined for the following reasons:

Only ACT has painted a clear VISION of a New Zealand I want to be part of

Only ACT has demonstrated and been uncompromising VALUES which will make New Zealand a country we can be proud of

Only ACT has the VELOCITY or speed of movement to make these things happen.

Bring on the elections!!!!

Lyn Murphy

Dear Mr Douglas and Mr

Dear Mr Douglas and Mr Hyde,

I guess i'm not too left and not too right at the moment when it comes to politics. I'm sick of minority parties and the amount of control they have under MMP and the pc correct flipping policies being shoved in our face at the moment. However, i can't see how this offer you're putting forward of an extra $500 per week for every wage earn could work. I see a lot of cost cutting going on and a flat tax system, however - i suspect even though Joe (oh and Jill - let's be pc now) Public has an extra 500 in their pocket this is going to go towards paying for the privatisation of industries including Health and Education. I fear we would be heading for a dangerously expensive society where the rich are truly rich and the poor live out of cardboard boxes - kind of where the US is right now. To me it's all swings and roundabouts - you guys take from one hand and put in another. A real vision for this country is where the country actually acquires other countries assets and makes a lot of money from them - as well as bringing home the export dollars.
Also how do you guys propose to handle interest rates ? I would like to see some relief for current home owners who are already struggling (oh by the way - we're not all landlords).
If you guys get into power i'd like to see the current election spending policy removed from existence.

Cheers

Hi Paul, The cost of any

Hi Paul,

The cost of any kind of Education or Health vouchers would be added on top of the $500/week extra we're aiming to give people, otherwise you're right, it wouldn't really all be 'extra' would it?

But in some ways, you're right... we certainly are giving people back their own money, but we're not planning on having the government take it all back again. The whole point of giving people their tax dollars back, is because we believe people should be spending their own money and that they can make those spending decisions much better than any government can.

Also, it's important to remember that almost a third of all New Zealander's have some form of health insurance already - it's actually surprisingly affordable.

Oh and you can bet that the Electoral Finance Act will be repealed as soon as possible if we get enough votes to make that happen.

-Peter

Good luck, save New Zealand

Good luck, save New Zealand from Labour.