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Yes I feel keeping promises to the voters who support them would be better than sticking to some arbitrary rules liked by the ones who don’t. They will never win the support of the second group but will lose the support of the first. But I think they are still finding fiscal holes left by Joyce and the 9 years of chronic under-funding. All in the name of these budget rules.
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May 4, 2018 04:44
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Not rhetorical: what is the issue with raising or not paying back govt debt in the short term? Interest rates would go up a bit I know, but god forbid kiwis actually save a little rather than drastically overleveraging themselves to buy property.
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May 4, 2018 05:11
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Too many people have bought in to the running a deficit is bad line. All of the cuts National made were in the name of returning to surplus. If Labour ups spending and borrowing it will be all over the opinion pieces etc.
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May 4, 2018 05:20
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Feels like it's too early to reinforce the "all the left does is create debt" thing e: beaten and said in a better way
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May 4, 2018 05:21
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True, maybe next year then
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lmbo hello sailor
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Xik posted:Feels like it's too early to reinforce the "all the left does is create debt" thing This literally happens regardless of if debt increased under right wing governments and decreased under left wing governments. Facts don't matter, it's all narrative when it comes to DEBT.
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So apparently the Gayford rumours seem to have begun with various twitter accounts. Posting them as image macros. The same accounts had also in the past posted pro-Trump images.
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Varkk posted:So apparently the Gayford rumours seem to have begun with various twitter accounts. Posting them as image macros. The same accounts had also in the past posted pro-Trump images. Delightful layer of added grossness.
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Dirty Politics II: Attack of the Trolls Do they really expect this to work in NZ? I think it's more likely to have the opposite effect and people will see him as a good bloke being unfairly persecuted
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Cor blimey. quote:A volcanologist says a giant sinkhole that opened up on a Bay of Plenty farm is the biggest he's ever seen in New Zealand.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17I8yPiapgw https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/05/new-zealand-sinkholes-volcanic-fault-lines-science-spd/ https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018643183/massive-sinkhole-on-farm-just-going-to-get-bigger-gns
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Calling someone a second class citizen because they're an immigrant or refugee is pretty close hate speech isn't it?
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That's some weapons grade stupid bigotry right there. Even leaving aside the "second class" part, 28 years ago is recent? A 9 year old "abandoned" her own country? Like that would be a stupid loving thing to say about an adult refugee, but a kid? The gently caress is wrong with this guy?
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Plunket is some sorta alpha fuckwit. It's like they grew him in a lab.
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quote:but following a select committee process in which amendments were made to reduce an employer's say in the matter, the party got cold feet What are the amendments that made the bill so scary?
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Hello I am a normal heterosexual person http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/05/it-s-not-gay-advert-offends-self-described-normal-heterosexual-person.html
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I never did quite get the whole censoring of language uproar - from either end. Both sides tend to forget that people just invent new words or appropriate old ones, like how cuck replaced human being, or troon replaced shemale. All you're doing is putting stumbling blocks in for linguistic habits, which means that once the new word pops up it's laced with a helluva lot more spite because it's seen as a giant gently caress you to whoever tried censoring it in the first place.
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Wait, cuck replaced human being? I thought cuck was short for cuckold.
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oohhboy posted:Wait, cuck replaced human being? I thought cuck was short for cuckold. Wait until you encounter "virtue signalling."
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oohhboy posted:Wait, cuck replaced human being? News to me, had no idea that cuck has become a gay slur
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It isn't specifically but it generally connotes effeminacy and weakness so it wouldn't surprise me if homophobes use it for gay people
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So who else is loving STOKED for budget day?
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Mark Richardson update: still a pillock https://i.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/103980377/broadcaster-mark-richardson-tells-tenants-on-live-tv-rents-going-up
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May 17, 2018 02:06
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It took me like three scrolls into the comments to get to someone suggesting that wanting to lower rents is Nazi Germany.
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May 17, 2018 02:22
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Sorry Rigor, loved your batting but it's time for the guillotine.
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The gently caress is this? https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/103993160/budget-winners-and-losers-of-the-governments-first-budget quote:Workers on the average wage could soon find themselves paying more tax, as wage inflation is tipped to push more into the top tax bracket in the next five years.
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Where the hell kind of wages are those being paid? I mean, I know of a few. But they have to work mad hours to make that.
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I dunno if they are being intentionally disingenuous but most people don't earn near $70k, the median wage is more like 50. E: Also wage inflation is very low, just yesterday stuff posted an article about it. Robo Captain fucked around with this message at 07:16 on May 17, 2018 |
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Yeah but what you're not taking into account is that Labour is going to completely gently caress up the economy and create a 40% increase in inflation within the next year because they're just tax hungry bureaucrats that don't care about businesses. But also <3 to the commentator who pointed out that Labour tried to make the top tax bracket $150k in 2014 and got so roundly thrashed for it by National and the media, that part of their 2018 election campaign was promising not to touch income tax in their first term.
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