So, from National's 'rock solid fiscal plan' -the $3b foreign buyers tax (which wouldn't have worked) was nixed by NZF -the $2b from cutting benefits was actually $600m -the landlord tax cuts cost $2.9b, not $2.1b -the gambling tax raises $200m, not $700m ...
A 'normal' business operates in a market with supply and demand and some competition to keep prices honest. What we have in NZ is a captive market with demand hugely distorted by decades of under-supply, and a FIRE industry milking Kiwis with huge ...
"The purpose of an investment is to generate profit" Oh really?? But according to the government, landlords are providing a social good from the kindness of their hearts and are doing it tough đđđ
Whatever, it's a group of privileged people exerting unfair leverage over the market. Luxon loves tax cuts but does nothing about rent, the biggest expense for unhoused Kiwis, leaving them to the wolves. The Nats have gone pretty quiet about the cost of ...
Businesses that employ people can claim interest and depreciation costs, except landlords are not running a normal business and most of them are basically farming humans and extracting capital gains as well as rent. The moral argument against monopolising ...
We can't afford the rich. The Royal Family's combined carbon footprint tallies up to a massive 3,810 tonnes a year. To put this into perspective, the average Brit has an annual carbon footprint of just 10 tonnes.
Luxon is holding one finger in the air and hoping that his financial genius will result in more houses being built, but what is more likely is that the ownership class will have more ready cash to outbid first home buyers, making inequality worse.
Do any MPs actually divest themselves of their property assets before implementing policies that inflate house prices? Conflicts of interest everywhere
It's true, honest! The magical trickle-down fairy says so.
Is there a word to describe Seymour's prevarications and patronising? Supercilious? Glib? Bullshit artist? Here is Seymour lecturing Lisa Owen, in true Rogernome style, all theoretical economic gobbledygook that attempts to justify a counterproductive tax ...
âA new study from the London School of Economics says 50 years of such tax cuts have only helped one group â the rich.â But here's Luxon saying renters are "very grateful" the Government is reintroducing interest deductibility for landlords... what a lying...
thank goodness we cancelled affordable water upgrades and stopped the Mowrees from stealing everything đ Cryptosporidium outbreak: Hundreds of cases reported across New Zealand, more than three times normal amount
âThe Princess of Wales is missing and the spare Prince is in exile and the King is treating his cancer with herbs. If this were the 1300s France would be looking to invade.â đ https://x.com/thestefansmith/status/1767191732368867811
Labour's public interest journalism fund should have been continued and extended. But the public interest is very much not in the NAF coalition's interest. Josh Drummond's latest Bad Newsletter is worth a read on this topic.
Pokarekare ana / I stole your kids banana I look like a potato / And I love landlords But if you're poor / Please go away Shut up about living costs / And lower pay
Caption Contest (original tweet by @LuxonNotMyGovt)
The "antisemitic" left is a right wing trope to smear critics of the Zionist colonial project
Holy fuckballs. How the hell do we get $20b projects announced under urgency with zero debate, and other multi-billion projects cancelled (ferries, water, light rail) without a sneeze. What is the legal basis for the Governor General to dissolve Parliament...
Great find - Body can be sharp đ
Labour developed a Charter for TVNZ in 2003; to get more local content and balanced news. Of course, National got rid of that in 2011 so that TVNZ could "pursue commercial interests" Damian Christie wrote an interesting piece on how the Charter wasn't ...
Seymour's "free speech" posture didn't last very long.
On Gaza, the protests in the UK are among the largest in history One of the biggest protests in the history of Great Britain We did it 1 MILLION #CeasefireNOW --@Muqadaam Rishi Sunak is out here characterising the protests as a "hijacking" by hostile ...
Very well put Advantage. Dune takes many elements from The Sabres of Paradise by British travel writer, Lesley Birch. Fremen culture is a lot like the Islamic Caucasus (Cossack warrior culture) ; and the Empire and its vassals are modelled on European ...
It's a very sad reflection on our society. X/twitterđ© is a trash fire these days. The level of vitriol and resentment against Jacinda, tribal jeering at the misfortunes of left-wing politicians, hatred of Labour for the "tyranny" of lockdowns and vaccines...
(international monetary fund, not the impossible missions force)
It's part of professional development mandated by those far left woke activists, Harcourts... Just do the mahi Janet. (h/t @vlcnz)
The Atlas network is the velvet glove... the IMF, CIA and direct warfare are more assertive means of Empire-building
I wouldn't mind PPP's if they actually worked but the public gets burned every single time.
Thomas Coughlan of the Herald tries to blame WakaKotahi-NZTA for the Government's (probably Nic Willis) massive blow-out of $24 billion for its highway schemes. This is the GOVERNMENT'S crazy plan; WakaKotahi just gave a cost estimate. The real news is ...
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Some of the vile comments on social media today, in the wake of Efeso's untimely death, remind us of why the anti-vax mob made themselves social outcasts and pariahs. These are deeply antisocial people who thrive on hate and fear. They got away with some ...
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