Matamata resident Katherine Ransom is the Democrats for Social Credit Party candidate for Tauranga at the election on November 26.

The party vice president is standing in Tauranga for a third consecutive general election.

Katherine Ransom.

'As long as New Zealand continues with the debt-based economic system, the income gap will get wider and debt levels will grow,” says Katherine.

'Current economic policy benefits the rich and powerful, while a quarter of our children go hungry to school.

'Change is long overdue, and urgent if we want to avoid the kind of violent protest that other countries are dealing with.
'The Democrats for Social Credit party calls for the publicly-owned Reserve Bank to provide our money supply at cost rather than borrowing $300m per week at interest from foreign banks.

'If the RBNZ can provide credit lines for commercial banks and finance companies, it ought to do the same for local authorities and capital works for public benefit.”