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@ponekeben That's a weird thing for an organisation with unconstrained revenue raising power to say

If you want the Golden Mile to proceed as scoped, that's $160m of debt that needs to be taken away from social housing upgrades, cycleways, depreciation and maintenance. Those are the only pools of $ with any discretionary spend attached. No BCR changes that stark reality.

@Papaioeajake *rates can reduce the incentive to build so there can be some small, indirect and delayed effect iff public home building is insufficient. Land value rates would avoid this but it's a minor effect and is far outweighed by the benefit tenants get from increased council services

@Papaioeajake Increasing rates doesn't increase rent prices.* Increasing rates benefits tenants and costs landlords, that's why landlords are always so against it. Whatever point you think you're making isn't helping.

People who live in their own home pay rates. Landlords don’t. They pass it on and they can get a tax deduction so long as they don’t admit they are passing it on. They also get tax deductions for insurance, home repairs, legal fees, advertising + interest on their mortgages

@cloisteredoystr @PedagogyMaxima Almost nobody who immigrated in the last ten years is retired

@PedagogyMaxima yes but the drain must be more than the benefit......for example the retirement age has to go up and GST has to go up.....so there must be negative benefit for kiwis?

Just a reminder the same minister saying there's no money for teachers or nurses or doctors spent a billion dollars on a single helicopter that's main purpose would be to attack our largest trading partner

@timeswmariana Thank you Hamas

@ClintVSmith Crazy that we are eroding our democracy because some granddads are too addicted to the TV to wait 3 weeks for the election show

@rodmanmaffet @CoryBMorgan A level of progress the US can't even dream of

@CoryBMorgan China has entire cities no one living in them.

Yeah the Soviets already showed what happens when the government takes on housing like this.

@gpu_thief @Grey_Athena True if you disregard all scholarship outside of computer science

@Grey_Athena fun fact nobody has figured out whether there is even a difference

@NathanL0lz Yes that's how settler colonies work

@narrenhut I see everything that they’re calling “spiritually Israeli” on here as spiritually American tbh

@SarahLockwood28 @_waleedshahid @mattyglesias Good! She was (and remains) pro-genocide.

A year ago, anti-war and pro-Palestinian delegates inside the Democratic Party urged the Harris campaign and the DNC to take a few basic steps: - Invite a Palestinian American speaker to address the party’s convention in the largest Palestinian city in the U.S. - Support a new policy ending unrestricted weapons transfers to the Israeli government. - Meet in Michigan with Palestinian and Lebanese American families who lost loved ones to Israeli bombs. - Issue a public statement or interview in which Harris or Walz explained how their Israel policy would differ from both Biden’s and Trump’s. - A statement outlining how a Harris administration would uphold U.S. and international law regarding weapons transfers. Every ask we made was rejected. Some delegates lost their jobs. That wasn’t just factional maneuvering. It was a real attempt to change policy. What we hit was a wall: risk-aversion, ideology, donor pressure, deference to center-left Jewish institutions still supporting unconditional weapons transfers, and Biden himself. We tried. jacobin.com/2024/11/the-le…

@FrankMcRae Damn I forgot Little was running. That sucks

The dynamics of the wellington mayoral race are so bad. The frontrunner andrew little is determined to do as little as possible and his main rival is one of the dumbest and weirdest people in nz protecting little from even having to pretend to try

@MaxWatersNZ @EDTheDicta17093 @jofromgreylynn Cigarettes are good to smuggle because they're small and light for their price. At $20 a kg (gross) out of a country as isolated as NZ you're gonna struggle to make any money.

@MaxWatersNZ @EDTheDicta17093 @jofromgreylynn This exists in Indonesia for coal and palm oil, it's called a DMO. It's not an export ban and nor is it a maximum export quota. The proportion that must be sold domestically can be adjusted regularly as required in response to changes in domestic production or consumption.

I still don’t understand why our cheese and butter prices overseas *must* be reflected here.

@MaxWatersNZ @jofromgreylynn This is a pretty dumb comment because minimum domestic sale requirements are not that difficult to implement and would still allow around 95% of dairy output to be exported for international prices

Because it's an international market. Unless you ban exports of dairy, you pay the international price. A real economy would generate concurrent growth in incomes so it wouldn't matter. In NZ we import low wage migrants, export high value products and have the dead weight of iwi giveaways, green taxes and a huge beneficiary population but we don't generate the domestics capital formation and growth to pay for any of that.

@DailyIndgnation Greive's whole thing is believing and trying to convince his audience that the worst right wing freaks in NZ, real pariahs like Sean Plunket, are actually fine normal people

Was anyone asking The Spinoff's Duncan Greive to go out of his way to defend Chris Bishop? He believes Bishop was "likely trying and failing to express" his problem with the politically-aligned Toitū te Tiriti org, rather than just being, y'know, another CONSERVATIVE.

@therag100 @KeeganLangeveld @NZGreens If you inherit both an asset and a debt you would pay tax on the net not the gross

@KeeganLangeveld @NZGreens Even worse for those who inheret a property with debt still owing, people will need to take another mortgages just to cover their tax bil

For a lot of young people in New Zealand inheritance is the only credible pathway to home ownership. The @NZGreens want to rob young kiwis of that pathway with their new $88bn of new taxes, including an inheritance tax. The average house price in Auckland is $1.2m, meaning anyone that inherits a home from their parents in Auckland would be hit with a massive tax bill. In this dangerous nonsense becomes a reality, watch young kiwis take off overseas.

@KaiWaiata @KeeganLangeveld @NZGreens No one is going to join a strike against inheritance tax you're delusional

@KeeganLangeveld @NZGreens Why take off overseas? Is there an option to fight? In protests, natiowide STRIKES, marches?? We have to protect our country and values. Dont give up hope.

@matty_prasad @StuartBDonovan They love to complain about infrastructure types where you can add supply faster than you can add demand as well You can add capacity to a school in like a year, to add demand takes multiple years to make the homes and then multiple more years to make the kids

@ShaiNavot @cjsbishop You need to learn to read

@cjsbishop It is a reprehensible position to take. The mere suggestion that Jewish people deserve to face this kind of hate because of actions of a Govt in another country is bigotry and morally wrong h. He should be ashamed. So should his wife.

Anti-semitism in plain sight from a prominent academic. Sickening stuff. The world’s oldest hatred is alive and well in NZ.

@R_Harris494 @labourcartel @chrishipkins Knowing NZLP they would say that, drive down the sale price, then cancel the policy once in government and let investors keep the windfall

The real estate sector is salivated at the prospect of selling off state homes in Auckland's prime suburbs, quoting agents who say its "hugely" exciting for developers and a "goldmines for developers". nzherald.co.nz/nz/kainga-ora-…