Relief for jobless?
PA Auckland Social Credit’s superannuation policy would almost halve unemployment, said the party’s leader Mr Bruce Beetham. He estimated that 45,000 extra jobs would be available for younger people if qualification for superannuation were extended on
an optional basis to everyone from the age of 55. A 15-hour-a-week work limit for national superannuitants would also open up 22,000 job-sharing opportunities, said Mr Beethham. After attacking the “free market” approach in the economic policies of the National, Labour and the
New Zealand parties, he said the solution to trading problems lay in “countertrade” or barter. Counter-trade represented 25 per cent ($7OO billion worth), of all international trade. Other Western nations were willing to counter-trade, and so should New Zealand, in his view.
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