Govt’s need behind loss of early pay power discount
What absolute socialist claptrap from Meridian over dropping the promptpayment discount.
I am a pensioner, dependent on Super. I do without many things to ensure I can meet the essentials, food and warmth.
I build up a credit during the warmer months to help me through the winter and the prompt-payment discount helps me to do that.
Who owns Meridian? Our Socialist Government.
Obviously it has put pressure on Meridian for higher dividends. It’s a way of getting the money it needs to meet that financial hole it has created with its pipe dreams, without adding yet a further tax.
It will hit more households struggling to keep their heads above water than their socalled rich. Philip MWard
Taradale
Legacy of disservice
A well-written comment by John Thompson ( Hawke’s Bay Today, September 13).
History will show the present Hawke’s Bay Regional Council led by Rex Graham and his friends left a legacy of complete disservice to the future prosperity of Central Hawke’s Bay and the wider region.
Neville Twist
Waipawa
Farms suffering
The Talking Point by Martin Williams was spot on. In it he commended the Labour Government on trying to better rebalance the economy, environment and our social responsibility, rather than National’s neoliberal approach and over-emphasis of driving the economy and GDP. Unfortunately the farming sector has also suffered from a similar unbalanced perspective by viewing our soils and landscapes solely for the production of food and fibre, and focusing too much on production and some misleading key performance indicators.
Soils and landscapes should also be the sponge that protects our farms, environment and communities from the fluctuations of nature’s elements but instead their function has been severely compromised by some of our farming practices, while also ignoring the impact that it has on other people within the catchment.
Typical of that neo-liberal approach, we continue to see some individuals taking or degrading a disproportionate amount of our community resources for personal gain and, in the process, imposing costs on others. Murray Cammock Waipukurau