We are so being ripped off. Robin Bell writes very sincerely in defence of treaty settlements. No-one is complaining about legitimate settlements being paid out.
However, several of these settlements have been paid up to five 'full and final' settlements. That goes way beyond what could be considered a legitimate payment.
Ngai Tahu is an example of this quintuple of payments - and now there is a top-up, innocuously called 'a relativity payment” of $138 million for Ngai Tahu and Waikato-Tainui. In a stunningly ungrateful move, the tribes are arbitrating against this as it is at the lower end of their expected entitlement - in other words, folks - they want more - and more!
Many tribes have put their fiscal activities into charitable trusts so that little or no tax is being paid.
Just where is this bottomless pit supplying all this bounty that Santa Claus, Chris Finlayson, is happily bestowing with such largesse?
This is a very good reason why you, the taxpayer, must write to your MPs today and tell them you object to a written constitution entrenching the Treaty of Waitangi, as is being sought by the Maori Party, for then, the cupboard will truly be bare!

David Round aptly quoted Kipling:
'That is called paying the Dane-geld
But we've proved it again and again,
Once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You will never get rid of the Dane!”

Robin Bishop, Pyes Pa.