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exmachina posted:Hmmmm ACT, after underperforming in the GE, suddenly is polling back to where they were before the election? Either the polling is skewed or people are forgetting to vote. (Or lying about who they are voting for) exmarx is a big fan of political pollsters Roy Morgan, take it up with him. Meanwhile Nicola Willis unveiled a mini budget that "draws a line under Labour's economic mismanagement" as she unveils her party's mini budget that has inflationary tax cuts that we can't afford and which axes a bunch of spending that was projected to save billions.
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Sorry we can't afford the tax cuts this year so it's just cutting spending and helping their mates out with stuff like interest deductability.
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lmao that you imagine they're not doing tax cuts just because they're unaffordable
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Oh they're absolutely doing the tax cuts, they're just going to have to borrow shitloads to pay for them, on top of all the service cuts, programs being axed, raiding the climate emergency response budget and cuts to benefit increases
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they're also gonna loot the emissions trading scheme. literally destroying the planet for tax cuts.
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$1.5 billion in cuts to the public service. like half of that is gonna be job losses.
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What I don't understand is how they managed to find 75 billion to save but like whatever that was to be spent on surley still needs doing at some stage so they must be spending it elsewhere anyway
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klen dool posted:What I don't understand is how they managed to find 75 billion to save but like whatever that was to be spent on surley still needs doing at some stage so they must be spending it elsewhere anyway That's when you sell off assets
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loving hate to see the media running the national party spin that these are "savings" rather than cuts, too. "Nicola Willis finds 7.5bn in savings" is such an innaccurate headline.
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It's almost all unrealised savings from cancelling light rail and the ferry upgrades lol. Plus 2bn from beneficiaries which treasury says is actually about 400m tops.
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Are they counting the 1 billion in assumed revenue as savings by stopping the ciggie ban?
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I don't think so, no. they're "savings" from: - cancelling LGWM - using the climate emergency response money - canning a bunch of MBIE programs and subsidies - reduced benefit increases (treasury says this is going to deliver way less than Willis claims) - "tax changes" (not sure what the detail of this is)
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voiceless anal fricative posted:I don't think so, no. they're "savings" from: Isn't the Climate Emergency response money kind of restricted on what it can be used for? Ie it's earmarked for climate impact reducing things. Or is that a paper bag they intend to try legislate themselves out of?
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cerf is just a pot of money that labour invented to put ets revenue in. now ets revenue will be funding tax cuts instead – a form of "climate dividend" 👍
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Lobsterpillar posted:Isn't the Climate Emergency response money kind of restricted on what it can be used for? Ie it's earmarked for climate impact reducing things. Or is that a paper bag they intend to try legislate themselves out of? the government in parliament is sovereign and can indeed use money intended to mitigate climate change to instead fund suck and gently caress sessions for landlords
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voiceless anal fricative posted:The lockdowns definitely set a lot of those brain worms off here, all centred around Jacinda. You'd see the odd bumper sticker around that said "lock her up" or "Jacinda ArGERM" or "ditch the bitch" or whatever. Usually on utes. At least two members of my family think that Jacinda is/was some sort of tyrant funded by secret backers to *mumble mumble mumble* anyway a RECKONING IS COMING FOR HER
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:i thought make ardern go away was pretty amusing It was tossup on what was more pathetic between that and #turnarden but I never saw anyone spend money on bumper stickers or aerial advertising for the latter
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gently caress this poo poo terf government
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Saw on twitter someone say that if cis sports people really opposed the law, it wouldn't happen. Imagine if the all blacks opposed it lol - but it's all pink washing.
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voiceless anal fricative posted:gently caress this poo poo terf government
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voiceless anal fricative posted:gently caress this poo poo terf government
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This is actually worth a watch, Robbie Nicol is loving funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BKH5jdXu6o
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voiceless anal fricative posted:gently caress this poo poo terf government
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tbh i was wondering how long it would take for them to get to the only thing all 3 parties have in common (the trans agenda)
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redleader posted:tbh i was wondering how long it would take for them to get to the only thing all 3 parties have in common (the trans agenda) Hey now, that's not fair. All three also dislike Māori, and they all like big business extractive industries
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voiceless anal fricative posted:gently caress this poo poo terf government
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voiceless anal fricative posted:Hey now, that's not fair. All three also dislike Māori, and they all like big business extractive industries They also have a deeply shared love of
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gently caress around find out
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Huh maybe Simeon Brown has been deliberately set up to be hated by being given that portfolio. Nobody should be surprised to see that coming. Frankly if they were going to use the CERF funding to fund 3 waters stuff it'd be more palatable than raiding it for tax cuts. But I have a feeling that the CERF fund wouldn't be enough Lobsterpillar fucked around with this message at 09:43 on Dec 22, 2023 |
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Terf implies this government is feminist.
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Who would have thought repealing the one initiative we had for keeping rates under control would result in a rates rise? Running a country is such a dark art.
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Ratios and Tendency posted:Terf implies this government is feminist. https://i.imgur.com/2YskUsV.mp4
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Discrimination based on race got us into this mess and discrimination based on race is the only way to get us out of it, but discrimination based on race is only racism when you are doing something bad to someone not when you are doing something good to someone.
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klen dool posted:Discrimination based on race got us into this mess and discrimination based on race is the only way to get us out of it, but discrimination based on race is only racism when you are doing something bad to someone not when you are doing something good to someone. Yes, I know I stole all of your stuff and shoved you into a pit, and stealing is bad and so we really should stop doing it, I agree! So when you forcefully take some of the stuff back in compensation, that's stealing again, and we shouldn't be doing that, remember!! Please stay in the pit and let me enjoy
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sure we signed a treaty granting sovereignty but it wasn't with a multicultural nation so we don't have to honour it.
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I was reading about the concept of "policing with consent" last night and it just occurred to me that the NZ police supposedly are able to police because they have the consent of the people - the existence of the treaty means they can't be, at least for Maori.
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klen dool posted:I was reading about the concept of "policing with consent" last night and it just occurred to me that the NZ police supposedly are able to police because they have the consent of the people - the existence of the treaty means they can't be, at least for Maori. this is any institution, including treaties themselves
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Laws are just words on a page,, man
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