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Luxon: “ the average kiwi wants to be able to flip their bach without the burden of paying tax on the profits. How would they afford the heli pad? Paying tax is for minimum wage earners. I am very touch with the average kiwi” (probably)

Starting with the 400m limo ride, to the many pointless junkets in bad suits, to us paying him to live in his own mortgage free unit cause he didn’t like the decor in the mansion he was provided by us, to him self dealing on real estate gains, Luxon is an extraordinarily expensive prime minister

Liability Luxon and a picture that will haunt him.
Smiling with a fascist pedophile talking about pointless bollocks.

Haven’t we all?

The Nats are really quick to go on about the CGT affecting poor old Mum and Dad kiwis that have a bach or a rental, but stop before the bit where it only affects them IF THEY SELL AT A PROFIT.
And that it's only the profit taxed. Not the entire sale amount.
#nzpol

Oh well Luxy should expect to be embarrassed by us. I will follow the Janey Godley model of “welcoming” him.

I wonder if the general population have worked out “cloud” simply means “someone else’s computer” - still just a computer.

And Otautahi is far better off for those assessments. Exclusion zones around the Avon are fabulous.
Obviously I think we should listen to nature - but here we all are.

🧵- Atlas influence on rushed Education -curriculum changes

Screen grab Bangerz Education and Wellbeing Trust Picture of Karen Chhour and 2 young men james at bewt.nz Banger: 1. awesome 2. forceful and aggressive athlete

Why are David Seymour, Karen Chhour and Erica Stanford not being absolutely hammered over this?

Imagine if this were the Greens or TPM.
#nzpol

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, you don’t have to believe the science. But your insurance company does believe the science and they will charge you based on that science.

The coalition are terrible
They suck at health
They suck at education
They suck at trades (or “we” lolol)
They suck at roads (we have more potholes not less and the road cone bullshit)

What they do well is self dealing - like Lying Luxon changing the tax regime then flipping 4 houses for half a mil

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I get that, what I struggle with is why the media never push on him. He would crack like the dumass egg that he is

Lolololol

Winston’s bitcb

I want him to explain that he was splitting hairs to every reporter and how he thought he could weasel out of admitting to his self dealing.

“You knew what we were asking you, why did you not answer us?”

Labour leader Chris Hipkins has had a crack at the prime minister's real estate portfolio while making the case for his party's new capital gains tax (CGT) policy. The Labour Party announced on Tuesday it would campaign on a CGT on property, excluding the family home and farms, at a rate of 28 percent from July 1, 2027. Part of Hipkins' pitch on the tax policy has been that it's a simple approach that would capture one in ten New Zealanders but deliver three free GP visits each year, for everyone. National has been poised to jump on Labour's long-awaited tax policy and has already pushed out a series of attack ads on social media. Asked about those ads, Hipkins said he was more than happy to debate Christopher Luxon about his personal finances. "Bring it on. He sold four houses last year and made more money, tax free, from doing that than he made in the prime minister's salary, which he paid tax on every dollar of. "Why should he be able to make more than $600,000 in one year from flipping properties whilst the people who go out and work hard every day for a living pay tax on every single dollar that they earn?" Luxon was registered as having two residential properties and one investment property in Auckland, in the 2025 Register of Pecuniary Interests. He had two residential properties in Auckland, one residential property in Wellington and four investment properties in Auckland in last year's register. Labour has previously criticised Luxon for making money, tax-free, from property sales in an effort to argue the tax system is unfair. Asked about his own property portfolio, Hipkins said he owned a family home and a beach house. He said he would happily pay a capital gains tax if he sold that beach house after July 2027.

Shots fired!!! Ol' Liability Luxon has no idea how much trouble he is in #NZPol

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Nailed it.

Take classes for free? Does it including getting qualification for free, or just allowing them to sit in on lectures? Cause very different to allow people to attend lectures to providing degrees for free……

This certainly does nothing at all to stop me ridiculing economists - esp those who support neoliberal policies that have never ever worked for anyone but the lazy 1%

A bit of a long thread on the strategy and cultural war the right is surging ahead with here in Aotearoa (while I’m tired and awake at a hospital bedside).

Fermenting from a few things, including a NZ democracy conference in Wellington last week and good chats with friends #NZPol

Flipping rentals really fucks over renters. Added costs moving, problematic for school rolls and community recreation (grass roots sport) and keeps families in a rental/poverty cycle.
All good for landlords, very bad for young families.

The main thing that scare the coalition about the CGT is that it will help homeownership over investment property ownership. It will help first home buyers and make flipping investment properties for profit less appealing - which makes life for renters more stable - allowing saving.

Damn, the accuracy.

Honestly though? The priorities…

Wonder how Trumps bunker ….oops I mean ball room is going.

Here’s a thought - Hitler died in a bunker……

WorkSafe board no longer has any worker representative - CTU Removing the voice of the worker from the actual governance of WorkSafe is "deeply concerning", says the CTU.

Workers are just collateral damage, to these posh ghouls.

Ok - how about this then. Churches take all the real estate they own and reprioritise to housing their communities rather than having fancy churches?
Or buy groceries for their communities?
Truly - if churches did what they preached, there would be no poverty - but instead they own cities.

Unions and Māori come together for Rā Whakamana Nationwide day of action calling to reaffirm the tino rangatiratanga of tangata whenua and protect the rights and wellbeing of all workers.

"Rā Whakamana is about recognising the mana of our wāhine, our workers, our rangatahi and tangata whenua, and coming together to create kotahitanga, strength and unity against this government and the attacks that are happening across all fronts,"
#nzpol

Surely pitchfork sales around the world are growing….surely.

In 2023, Mehr was awarded the Prime Minister’s MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize – a top honour for New Zealand researchers – for his work on how humans perceive and create music. Mehr told Newsroom his interaction with Luxon at the awards ceremony was brief, but engaging. “I remember he was so excited to talk to scientists about what we were up to. He told me that he had been looking forward to this event for several weeks. He said it was one of the most fun things he gets to do.” But this enthusiasm did not square with the budget for research set under Luxon’s Government – or the governments that preceded it. “So either he’s totally insincere, and he was bullshitting me, or he’s incompetent and doesn’t realise that he, himself – and his own Government, the people he’s put in power – have signed off on pennies on the dollar for scientific funding in this country, rather than serious investment in research that can change the world. “I don’t think they’re lying about being excited about science; I think they’re just being totally disingenuous about the connection between their own decisions about the Budget and the scientific outcomes that the country can produce.”

i think this is the thing I find so frustrating / depressing about how our govt works. there's a complete dissociation between what they say "we love science its great" and what they spend on basic science