A New Zealand National Party Farmer Candidate Speaks His Mind Mike Butterick is remarkable for having sharply identified the flaws or “own goals” as he describes them in the Emissions Trading Scheme and even more remarkable for publicly pointing them out. Why, he asks, is New Zealand hell-bent on “restricting its export income?” This is the income that pays for the “expectations” in health, education, and welfare the “teachers, nurses, and police…..” The ETS, emissions trading scheme, he describes as inflationary in that can “only add costs.” At the heart of the problem is that dividends are paid out only…