Mary Brooks (letters August 23) destroys her credibility when she says that Treaty settlements have cost the taxpayer $39 billion.
She is contradicted by official figures from the Office of Treaty Settlements and the book ‘Twisting the Treaty' that the total for all Treaty settlements during the last 25 years is $2 billion.
Current Government spending is $100 billion per year – $2 billion over 25 years is insignificant.
It is a serious matter that Mary is providing wrong information that is easily contradicted by official figures.
Equally serious is Mary's statement that Treaty claims are unproven.
The reverse is true. Nobody has produced any credible evidence that any Treaty settlement is unproven or a fraud.
Peter Dey, Welcome Bay.
4 comments
@ Peter Dey
Posted on 30-08-2013 19:03 | By Captain Sensible
As usual you miss the point; any handouts based on race or hearsay is misappropriation of tax payers money. $40 Billion has been estimated by many people, and to say that it's only $2 Billion is a deliberate attempt to mislead the average kiwi. If $2 billion over 25 years is "insignificant", that is still no reason for maori to get it.
Where have you been
Posted on 30-08-2013 20:05 | By robin bell
Cap'n its you that misses the point.Purposely I'm sure,$40Billion is in reference to total Maori assets.Maori have been awarded $2 Billion over 25 years for land proven to have been stolen,but then you already knew that eh!Sooner or later Cap'n you will realise,no matter how often you tell a lie,it will nver become the truth.Remember Cap'n STOLEN LAND.Repeat it 10 times and maybe you will remember.Robin Bell.
Truth please
Posted on 01-09-2013 21:59 | By Captain Sensible
Race based handouts include money and assets. For example; Sealords, forests, land and god knows how many "full and final" settlements. One maori tribe even got $10 million in compensation for the loss of a cannibals 'maritime empire' because after the treaty was signed, it became illegal to paddle across the Cook Strait and slaughter other maori. Finlayson and co can't give our money away fast enough. It is almost $40 billion now and still no end in sight.
RACE BASED COMPENSATION FROM RACE BASED INJUSTICE
Posted on 02-09-2013 14:59 | By Peter Dey
Captain Sensible you repeat the figure of $40 billion as though this was Treaty settlement payment. As Robin Bell writes. No matter how often you tell a lie it will never become the truth. Treaty settlements have totalled only $2 billion over 25 years according to Office of Treaty Settlements.
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