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bike tory posted:I was trying to remember this oval office's name so I went to the national party website and holy poo poo how do they have so many MPs who look like their skin isn't properly attached to their skull I don't find their names to be all that important. It's not like you're going to find one that doesn't follow the tax-cut, service-cut, welfare-cut, tough-on-crime template. The occasional pimp, perhaps.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:No I mean you only hear lower taxes lower taxes lower taxes you never hear what the actual correct amount is That's a good question. One of the things I like about the Living Wage concept is that it's an actual measure of what it would cost for someone to work a standard full time job and not have to have a lovely life as a result. There's probably a few similar calculations you could make for tax rates, although it would be significantly more complicated. You'd look at what acceptable targets were across all services, transport, health etc and look at the funding that would be required to meet those targets. That would get difficult in getting agreement on what targets should be, and costing the solutions would probably involve spending money on designs that will never be implemented with the goal of working out what a theoretical tax rate should be. That would actually be an incredibly valuable piece of information that could influence future policy decisions, but... "lol, Labour's consultants and working groups, just bring back 3 strikes. I am very smart."
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Guess who and what Turns out people are particular about the specific brand of horseshit they listen to.
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Wellington trains at 50% for the next few weeks because Kiwirail have literally one car that checks the tracks and it broke down. Cool.
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Content to Hover posted:If anyone is interested RNZ mediawatch has a fairly good article on how quickly media have moved on from celebrating the law changes that allow kiwis to gain Australian citizenship to scaremongering about the possibility of an exodus. Thanks NZ Media. This is because we haven't had to worry about talent migrating to Australia since 2001, right? Or are we more concerned about the slightest increase of pressure to compete with Australian wages and working conditions, you know, the ones above starvation level?
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Content to Hover posted:I mean the article points out that the country pretty much agrees with you on media. "No! More empty rentals will hurt Mum and Dad property investors! Why do you hate small business?"
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WarpedNaba posted:Didn't know there was a straight line in all of New Zealand, we put Lancre to shame. The car addled would literally see nothing wrong with blasting an 800km, 12 lane hole through every hill and forest if it meant not having to wait for a passing lane.
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Looking forward to the incoming hot takes on Damehood.
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Besides our regularly scheduled vomiting and diahorrea, we are also in a recession.
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exmarx posted:https://www.handsoffourhomes.nz/ Someone tell David Seymour's nephew to stop abusing gradient fill.
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Beartaco posted:you can't post this without sharing your dollar site op-eds, come on now. Based on his posting history, he's obviously this man from the New Zealand initiative: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/300832078/teachers-unions-arent-helping-our-best-teachers-get-the-pay-they-deserve Although some of his posts lead me to believe he might be this guy: https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/132389012/with-fuel-prices-set-to-soar-next-week-z-energys-boss-offers-his-view
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bike tory posted:let me tell you about horseshoe theory... Stuff needs a way to "gas thread, ban OP"
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bike tory posted:https://twitter.com/MayorWayneBrown/status/1674589056041385984 
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Looking forward to seeing the former chair of the food and grocery council take the supermarkets to task.
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Some people would actually prefer population caps before one red cent gets spent on a modern rail network. Wellington Facebook Group posted:
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https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/300934025/kiri-allan-resigns-as-minister-charged-with-reckless-driving-and-resisting-arrest In hindsight, she probably needed to leave earlier. Some mental health struggles take a lot more than a holiday to work through.
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I would like to vote for this seal I found in Kaikoura last week. 
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They're not even real libertarians. Well, the cousin loving guy, sure, but the rest of them are just stock standard far right.
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I've been too a few comedy nights. James Nokise is always pretty solid. Ben Hurley didn't quite hit the mark, "No one laughed at my climax joke." I didn't realise he'd finished.
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The pro road argument comes from people that don't actually live in the cities and talk about urban planning and transit systems literally like they're culture war. One guy was arguing that Wainuiomata was going to be turned into a 15 minute city. Firstly, stop threatening people with a good time. Secondly, no they're not. There's not going to be a point where you can't move to the burbs and drive to wherever. It's urban planning, key word being urban. Personally I'd prefer if suburban sprawl was kept under control, but we already know that's not going to happen.
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It's been lovely in Porirua.
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exmarx posted:extremely sinister vibe on this blackrock announcement lmao Great, looking forward to them owning all the property.
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If we have to have Nact, please somehow make it so they also need Winnie. Mix a little comedy into the tragedy.
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It'll be at least two terms of Nact if they get in now, probably with more National seats in the second term. We'd have to see rioting in just about every region for a main party to get one-termed.
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Labour/Green/TPM's best hope is National and ACT MPs loving up worse than Labour MPs. It's a high bar, but they're giving it a go.
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bike tory posted:I think this is probably the most hosed up thing ACT have announced. I don't think even National would let this through tbh. It's so infuriating to see them get away with dropping policy like this completely unquestioned, but it was covered on 1news tonight like a loving press release for ACT. "ACT want us to be building houses at a rate not seen since the 1980s." By allowing quality standards not seen since the 1990s.
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The young voter's debate is worth the watch.
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I'm waiting to see if Chloe has another crack at him, he looks like he's about to cry. Edit: I think he finished mid-stroke. Edit Edit: I have been informed he does actually have facial paralysis from Bell's Palsy. Spyderizer fucked around with this message at 09:31 on Sep 25, 2023 |
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It's almost like the work doesn't magically disappear when the person doing it does.
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Might vote today. Feels more like damage control than anything.
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Done, voted the Christmas colours.
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Content to Hover posted:Black, red and white and green? At least half of those.
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I have never been prouder of my home province. Get Coked Up, Smash the Ranfurly Hawkes Bay represent!
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Grats on stopping 3 waters. Here's your 20% increase on rates.
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klen dool posted:Right but they campaigned on doing that so their voters should already know and want that They stopped listening after "we'll make fuel cheaper by..."
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Might get a road or two out of them perhaps. Some of the pro business stuff might generate some jobs but it would be difficult to weigh against the public sector losses.
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