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Euan Mason's avatar

Luxon and Willis quite clearly do believe in the fantasy of "trickle down" as has been evident in their ludicrous comments about handouts to Landlords resulting in lower rents. The reality is that "investments" in housing are quite unlike any other business so long as we lack a comprehensive capital gains tax covering speculative gains. As it is the main "get rich quick" scheme employed by New Zealanders creates no wealth whatsoever, and the returns aren't even taxed! Most of those at the top of the housing pyramid scheme aren't about to deliver anything to their tenants that's not mandated by law.

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Shirley Brunton's avatar

The essay paints a very unsettling picture. “Strong stable government”- not! Hipkins has a long, long way to go, unfortunately, to rebuild trust that he understands what leadership is about. Hopefully though Labour, the Greens and Te Pati Māori have the incentive and capacity to build a strong working relationship together- with strong policies for when the coalition glue unsticks.

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Judith Paulin's avatar

The two of them need to fall on their swords - right now! Urgent surgery called for:

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Mountain Tūī's avatar

Upvoted on title alone.

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Jim Skeats's avatar

No country has ever taxed its way to prosperity despite what the innumerate left "believe" in their post 1984 geriatric raves about "trickle down". No indexation for a decade means phantom gains are being taxed. So rather than forcing Maori to work in Port Headland, The Welfare Retail Parties, need to explain why they never delivered anything but poverty in Rotorua.

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Kumara Republic's avatar

Liz Truss, much? Maybe it's time to haul out a spare lettuce.

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Jarrod Hedley's avatar

Imagine my disappointment when Labour and Jacinda made numerous promises and failed to deliver any of them....where was the media then asking for their resignations.?

The nats have lived up to their promises so far and while even I question true tax cuts over moving the tax bands...yet the media is baying for blood.

Another example how the MSM are so biased they can't see the woods for the tree's.

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Vicki B's avatar

Haha, have you forgotten the terrorist attack, Covid and the climate tragedies they had to handle?? All things considered, I think Labour did very well indeed!

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Jarrod Hedley's avatar

Wow, you are grasping at straws there.

Forget children living in material hardship - 4% up

Welfare dependance - up 100k

Build 100,000 houses....got about 5% of the way there and helped drive house price inflation at the same time

Plant a billion tree's....think they got to 4% on that one

Printed and borrowed 80 billion dollars and drove inflation up (78% of inflation was caused by local influences) and then engineered a recession

Light rail to Mt Roskill by 2020 - never got it off the ground

New Hospital in Dunedin by 2021...

What other failures do I need to inform you of?

Apart from putting on a Hijab and looking sad, Labour did little other than punish law abiding citizens on that one.

Covid was a difficult one I agree but they used it as an excuse to fund their socialist dreams.....one of the treasury reports even stated they gave up trying to track the money - feb 22

Its weather events.....climate tragedies is just another way to hype the kids up.

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