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No Welfare Payments To Rock Stars - Libertarianz
Libertarianz Deputy Leader Richard McGrath today attacked
government plans
to underwrite a musical concert in
Gisborne.
He suggests we reflect on what these political
hacks want to do here. "They
are advocating using money,
extracted from taxpayers by the IRD, to line the
pockets
of some of the wealthiest people in the musical
industry."
"These rock stars and operatic performers are
already millionaires. It is
utterly obscene for a
government to sanction the compulsory transfer of
money
from its own citizens to these performers."
Libertarianz
asks that the now controversial concert be allowed to
succeed
or fail on its own merits. "Why should a person
wanting to celebrate New
Year's Eve in their own way be
forced to subsidise a party in Gisborne that
no one wants
to go
to?"
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