"I get sick every time I go to the doctor that I still get subsidised and I can't opt out of the system. Now that's wrong. I was trying to take the welfare state off the middle class."
What this atomised mindset misses is that it's not her being subsidised, it's the doctor's surgery. If you want to contribute more according to your means, you do that by raising taxes, in ways that target those on higher incomes.
Another neoliberal dogma. The implication is that individuals can achieve the same thing with each dollar they spend that each dollar of govt funding can. It's just not true, see health posts above.
Shipley doesn't even believe it. Elsewhere in the interview she talks about leadership and doing the right thing even if it's not popular.
#JennyShipley's attempt to defend Max Bradford's 1990s electricity reforms boils down to...
'We did the work of replacing a publicly-owned, democratically-run electricity network with a competitive market between for-profit, companies. Now we've impoverished the public enough that you might finally make use of their freedom to switch to the cheapest one.
No thanks are necessary, it just felt good to do.'