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@EdLudbrook What about nationals debt? It's gonna be higher than Ardern, and there isn't even a pandemic.

The one reason Labour does not deserve to be trusted.

@Bluebird262626 Like all countries that had to borrow and spend for COVID. National have are borrowing more than Labour ever did, and there's not even a pandemic. How do you feel about nationals borrowing, or is that labours fault too?

Hipkins at pains to argue fees free was designed not to burden the next generation. Meanwhile his government got the country into debt levels that will cripple the economy for our children & their children for years to come.

@GreenTyler27 How did small business cope before the tax concessions were introduced? Maybe people will need to "work harder" rather than ask for government handouts?

When successful Australian business owners like Janine who built companies from nothing start sounding the alarm, people need to listen. Australia used to reward risk, hard work, investment and entrepreneurship. That’s how families built security, businesses employed locals and communities prospered. Increasing taxes on investment, productivity and wealth creation does not magically create prosperity. It actually risks discouraging the very people who build businesses, employ Australians and take financial risks in the first place. A healthy society should help people become independent and self-sufficient; not increasingly reliant on government redistribution just to maintain their standard of living. We cannot tax our way into prosperity while productivity falls, housing becomes unattainable, energy costs explode and government debt keeps climbing. Australia needs to rebuild a culture of aspiration, ownership and enterprise again. Vote @OneNationAus and let’s get back to work.

@KrispKiwi @SimeonBrownMP On the digital ID bandwagon huh? Maybe too much time on X? Your driver's licence is already sitting on a server mate, your credit card already tracks everywhere you have been, your ISP can trace your use of the internet, your phone and laptop records everything.

@SimeonBrownMP Party vote national is a vote for digital ID as confirmed by Erica this morning.

All we heard from Chris Hipkins on Q+A this morning was more of the same. He’s a man without a plan, full of spin and talking points, and he isn’t being upfront with Kiwis. Remember when Chris Hipkins and Labour promised no new taxes, then slapped us with the ute tax, the app tax, and a long list of others? Remember when they vowed to build 100,000 homes through KiwiBuild and delivered an abysmal fraction of that? Remember when they told us they had a plan for the cost of living, and instead we got 30-year high inflation, soaring interest rates, and families going backwards? Who knows what he’ll do this time. On Q+A, Hipkins called his GP visits policy “targeted”, yet it hands someone on a $300,000 salary like himself three free visits a year. That’s not targeted. That’s Chris Hipkins looking after Chris Hipkins. Not once did he mention his capital gains tax. That silence speaks volumes. Under a Labour-Greens-Te Pāti Māori Government, they’ll tax your house, your wealth, and everything else you’ve worked so hard for. Hipkins just doesn’t want you to hear it from him. He then spent two thirds of the interview dodging questions on fees free, refusing to tell Kiwis whether he’d bring it back, while happily defending $1 million a day being spent on students getting diplomas in things like DJ-ing, scuba diving, and yoga. He’s the man without a plan, with no new ideas and nothing to offer the families working hard to get ahead. National has spent the past two and a half years fixing the basics and building the future. To keep gang patches out of sight, a capital gains tax out of mind, and the focus firmly on growing jobs and the economy, Party Vote National on 7 November.

@Sauronlordking Another form of "tax" is ever increasing house prices driven by investment demand, which means rents go up to cover the higher mortgages - without a corresponding increase in earnings - *effectively* a further tax on those trying to save for a home going straight to investors.

Imagine if you were a young person. You're saving up for a house. A rich uncle dies and leaves you a 100 thousand dollar share portfolio. Under the new CGT arrangements ,the government will get at least 30 thousand dollars. Imagine if these blood suckers bring in death duties. There won't be much money left for a house deposit.

@SureshSyed @Sunkship2023 Sort of like that time in the late 1800s and 1900's when combustion or jet engine was developed and used nowhere else in the world... Gee they were dumbasses back then

@Sunkship2023 And are trialling electric aircraft used nowhere else in the world

Air nz is 400 million in the hole because they're woke, diversity dotards who buy 5 times more expensive imaginery green fuel for 30% of their fleet. They're stupid diversity hire morons who are more interested in virtue signaling then delivering a good product.

@ender_wiggin_ @senatorbabet @Rothbard1776 You're exactly right - but you'll never convince a group of people who want to continue the benefits/handouts they're getting.

@senatorbabet @Rothbard1776 Why should capital be taxed at a different rate than labor?

Capital gains tax shouldn’t exist. I risk my money. I build the business. I make the investment. I do the work. I take the risk. So why the hell should the government take a cut of my success? They risk nothing. They create nothing. They just take. Parasites. F’en parasites.

@jasonprgressive @Keg767 In your example, why would that person choose to invest it in something that achieves a capital gain then - surely you'd put it in the bank at 5%? The investment scenario would need to achieve a 7.14% return to break even AFTER tax. It's a silly example really.

@Keg767 You pay income tax on interest surely you know that?

My wife doesn’t work. We are blessed to have some money in savings. Let’s say she puts $100K in a hi interest account at 5% at the end of the year she owes nothing in tax. However if she gets a capital gain of $5K she’s up for $1500 in tax. What an asinine policy! Ludicrous!

@dobedobaba @em_Lazzy Yep it tells me you're a liar. Your sentence itself doesn't even statistically make sense. You would need to know approximately 37 million people generally, to come across 8 that died from the vaccine.

@em_Lazzy I don't personally know a single person who died from COVID. But I know of 8 that died from the jab. Does that tell you something?

Who else believes Covid vaccine has caused more health problems than Covid itself?

@TheRedbaiter @NMowbray23 It doesn't matter what it is - right wingers will complain. It's the script used every year. They tried in in the states and embarrassed themselves.

@NMowbray23 Been on about this for years. Att illustration from a 2018 report. Cost of govt inc wages, rent insurance etc estimated at circa $60 BILLION. Apart from a few die hards (like me) no one seems to give much of a damn.

WILD. Comparing the NZ government structure to Finland’s. A picture says 1000 words !! Both countries have similar populations (5.5M). The structures behind are very different. Finland: • 12 core ministries • Clear vertical accountability • Defined ownership • Built for speed, clarity, and execution New Zealand: • 40+ departments • 80+ ministerial portfolios • Layers of overlapping responsibility • Super-ministries reporting across multiple ministers The result? Accountability blur. No improvement. Massive waste. In any high-performing organisation, if everyone is responsible, no one is. NZ has exceptional people. But we need systems designed to deliver outcomes, not a birds-nest structure that creates no improvement or efficiency. Fixing this will be a HUGE unlock on NZ long term. All parties should come together in a bi partisan way to sort this out.@actparty @NZNationalParty @nzfirst @nzlabour

@Silverback_MD Invest in a diversified investment portfolio. If you sacrificed your 20's with a view of"making it" through multiple investment properties, then you're reinforcing the problem the government is trying to solve. Also, everyone works hard - you're not special.

lol My mates and I are doctors in our 20s/30s/40s starting off our careers. Absolutely everyone is gobsmacked at the budget changes. Genuinely feels like our generation will get punished for working smart or hard. None of us own investment properties yet - what’s the point now? How do we get ahead now? What was the financial incentive to sacrifice our 20s to train? It feels like all the worst aspects of communism with none of the benefits….. No incentivised housing/travel/childcare for doctors No one in my group is having kids Yet our alcoholic patients are on their 4th or 5th - supported via government programs What a joke Speedrunning civilisational demise

@Ryandally08 Left wing, right wing, right wing left wing. People on this platform pick and choose what side they believe the media are on depending on whether they like what is being written or whether they're trying to make some political point. I swear 90% people on here are nuts.

When even the left wing media start calling the Albanese Government communists. You know we have a major problem.

@Ritzyg2000 @Smithiface @chris_m_80 @AlboMP Having a more equitable tax system in punishing the rich. Are you saying that you needed the tax concessions/benefits implemented in the early 2000's in order to get ahead? Are you saying for the "rich" to have what they have today they needed a handout from the government?

@Smithiface @DickyButtons_ @chris_m_80 @AlboMP It’s concerning how younger generation doesn’t get basic economics or demographics, but has googly eyes for “punishing the rich” because it’s such an appealing slogan!!! It’s concerning that this naive generation is meant to support my retirement!!

We're changing property investor tax breaks to give first home buyers a fair go.

@Smithiface @chris_m_80 @AlboMP There's lots to invest in other than housing. Let's face it, people want lazy gains - which is why people hate these changes. "Work harder" - to get gains, don't expect the government to give you profits for free. Isn't that a handout? People will still take risks.

@DickyButtons_ @chris_m_80 @AlboMP I don't believe that at all. To be clear, I dislike the growing wealth gap and the disappearing middle class. Deincentivising risk taking by private investors is a very bad idea. Incentivising/subsidising people to upskill, invest and think long term is good.

@Smithiface @chris_m_80 @AlboMP Ah well.. I guess young people should just rent forever then and fund the lifestyles of investors - then retire with no assets at all - while they're at it pay more tax than property investors as well. Sounds like the "hard workers" are actually the renters

@DickyButtons_ @chris_m_80 @AlboMP Many reasons, living off of low wages, living paycheck to paycheck, short term employment history, bad credit. Also, there is a difference in the level of risk between making rent payments and convincing a bank to loan you hundreds of thousands of dollars.

@Smithiface @chris_m_80 @AlboMP You're grasping at straws with logic there. What about all of those who do have the fiscal discipline and that want a mortgage. Why can these people you speak of have the fiscal discipline for ever increasing rent but not for a mortgage? Riddle me that!

Thats some proper basic level lefty idealisitc thinking you've done there. There's a large percentage of the population who don't have the fiscal disciplin nor financial stability to take on such a large debt. Not to mention, many renters don't want to be stuck with a mortgage. Rents will go up

@chris_m_80 @AlboMP Exactly! This is the answer investors love to ignore though.. You're basically unwinding the tax settings that pushed prices up and pushed properties into investors hands. There will always be properties available to rent.

@AlboMP RENTS WILL NOT GO UP - RENTERS FINALLY BECOME BUYERS AS PRICES NORMALISE!!!

@AussieFlatus The saving? You mean the house price inflation at the expense of younger Australians whos incomes can't catch up? Then you cash out and say you "worked hard" - that's not saving. That's a windfall gain due to tax concessions.

Labor’s CGT grab: Because apparently “saving” is now a taxable offense. You did the hard work and the “doing without,” yet they want the reward. It’s a penalty on success and a broken promise that won’t be forgotten. Never again. #AusPol #Budget2026

@JojoNewZ @kapiti_coaster No I didn't. You're claiming taxes are wasted, im saying they're not because the government has cut taxes and then had to borrow again when they realised they didn't have enough money. If you're claiming "corruption" it would need to be billions worth to claim we're over taxed

@DickyButtons_ @kapiti_coaster You just changed the argument. I'm talking about any government. I don't care which party it is the system is flawed and needs ripping out root and branch. Is that clearer?

Great question asked on The Chaser UK tonight. When was a Capital Gains Tax introduced in the UK? Look at the decade of the options! So yes it is time to introduce a Capital Gains Tax in Aotearoa New Zealand. Australia also has the Capital Gains Tax.

@JojoNewZ @kapiti_coaster But hold on... National cut taxes, right - and instead are borrowing more than Labour? It's simple math - there's not enough tax revenue otherwise Nats wouldn't have borrowed. They shouldn't have cut taxes. They were warned by economists before being elected.

I understand how taxes can be used my point is that's not what's happening with the revenue collected and giving them more taxes to play with will only increase the soft corruption endemic in our parliament. What percentage of MPs own more than two house's do you think? When they talk of affordable housing for votes they should be made to put their money where their mouth is. I'll make a bet. If there is a capital gains tax introduced there will be a loophole in it designed for MP's to continue profiting. IT'S WHAT THEY DO!!