Did you know that it could cost over 30 million dollars just to change the New Zealand flag? I believe that we should keep the current flag that has represented the country many for years and I’m going to tell you why, we could be using this money on other things in New Zealand, people might get into fights or maybe war, and we are well known and won 2 Rugby world cups...soon to be 3.
Firstly changing the flag costs a lot of money that we could be using for many different things. The build-up itself will cost 25.7 million just to vote whenever we change the flag. The 25 million dollars could fund the entire Kids Can Programe for eight years, thats eight years, New Zealand! All of our parents are voting and paying. In total it will cost over 90 million or more just to change the New Zealand flag. Is it really worth it?
We should not change the current flag because it is and has been a huge part of our history. In World War 1 brave kiwis fought under the flag. New Zealand has also been part of the Olympics 5 times and guess what flag we had then! Also in 2015 the flag represented our country in the Fifa world cup. Would you like to get rid of this history?
Futhermore not many people actually want to change the flag. So the goverment did a poll and asked if it was time for New Zealand to design a flag for itself, 25 per cent said “yes” and 70 per cent said “no”. If people don't want to change the flag, there could be fights and people might get angry. There would be endless debates on what we change it to as so many people want different things. Some people want the silver fern while others want something completely different. No matter what the new flag is changed to, not everyone will be satisfied.
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