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So while you're tenants are paying tax every week, pay as you earn, you're complaining about paying tax 12 months plus after earning the income. Whinge on, and on and on So perhaps since it's so tough paying tax every week and such a luxury paying every 12 months we should do away with PAYE, pay wo...

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NZ Government debt $175 billion last year rising to $193 billion this year and is projected to hit $230 billion by 2029. Anyone who doesn't appreciate that this is a much bigger problem than pay equity is an enemy of the people of NZ. Something drastic needs to be done but unfortunately we have a co...

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Bob Jones goooone. He saw me reading a comic when I was like 9 or 10 and told me I'd go to jail if I kept reading comics. FHHD. Bit of a wanker. Funny with it though . Threatened to punch me once when I called him out on some bullshit he was saying art related . He was insisting that if an artist h...

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Lol are you after imposing 'morals' legislation for business ffs What! How on earth did you arrive at that from either Farmer Dave's or my posts? :lol: However, as it happens, while not morals per se, I am a supporter of good corporate citizenship, integrity in business and corporations and their e...

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Thanks for your detail rich information. As impressive as Singapore’s achievements may be, you can quickly see why it probably won’t transfer easily to NZ. No it will not, we won't accept, rightly, an authoritarian government, Yes. Thoroughly inconceivable that Kiwis could tolerate Government attem...

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Agreed. I've known several councillors who have had successful business careers and reach semi retirement age and decide to run for council. Everyone thinks "They'll be great! They'll sort the Council out!" But instead they become about as effective as the aforementioned church mice and give it awa...

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That would translate to being 'golden' while 'being open to bribery or corruption' which probably sums up what alot of people with a victim mentality are hoping to achieve with it.

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How about Michtam Venality?

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Bringing up freeze peach? Not you Booji. You were always my favourite NZ righty tighty despite your town being more expensive than the Swiss Alps. But bullshit freeze peach arguments is a bridge too far. :D Aw shucks. :blush: I always considered you a smart poster and would have thought you'd be pe...

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Should have checked, it's 50% higher at 6% 2022 statsnz 80% of our exports are produced by the food and fibre industries which make up 13.4% of our workforce, its not hard to find these figures. Moreover you talk about most people in NZ being unproductive and then mention beneficiaries? The benefic...

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I don't disagree it would be a strategy for NZ. However, the key point is you have to reduce corporate tax rates to very low levels to get business to locate HQ's here to avoid tax in their own countries. Selling this to the NZ voting public with its current mentality would have a very low chance o...

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I don't disagree. But that doesn't make the concept wrong. Ireland is a good example. Here for instance, crypto and other tech coys such as AI struggle to even get banks to let them open accounts. We're not just not providing meaningful incentives we're actually putting nonsensical barriers in the ...

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Lake Onslow, or some such, might have been handy for that. :thumbup: I've been google searching what's un utilised power generation in NZ , but not had much luck on results Possibly because the last large scale power scheme in this country was Clyde. Since then, there has only been a bit of fiddlin...

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People don't want to be curious these days. They just want to hear that their views are right. No people these days don't understand economic reality is not about views it is about facts. How much you earn vs how much you spend and the money you have to borrow to pay the deficit. The debt collector...

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Easiest way is to increase income levels. Transition to a tech based economy We've been talking about that for decades. The problem is talk is cheap and these things don't magic into existence just because some wanker in suit sell it during an election. No government has provided meaningful incenti...

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This coalition has almost crippled an already shaky R&D sector , back on track folks ! Yes it is not ideal but the Ardern/Hipkins government got us so far off track we are going to have to take baby steps back towards the track for the next decade, at the sacrifice of all else but the basics. Unfor...

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Lots of blaming political leanings for the state of the roads. Reality is they are symptomatic of our general infrastructure problems. We don't have the funds or energy to maintain what we already have so building new stuff just makes it worse, more spent on new means less to spend on maintenance o...

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Don't worry Booji the Greens will get rid of those roadworks overnight if they get elected in coalition with Labour and TPM will build their own separate roads just for Maori.

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No mention of the latest polls? https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/04/07/poll-national-and-nz-first-up-coalition-would-get-second-term/ https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/557194/labour-te-pati-maori-lose-ground-april-taxpayers-union-curia-poll https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/poll/556774/rnz-reid-research-poll...

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Trump policies. Bullying the poor and the weak. :thumbup: 11.9 million Vietnamese are employed in the mfg sector. 30% of their export turnover is stateside bound. I suspect they are deeply concerned about the impact of millions of furloughed workers if orders dry up. They'll just pivot to other mar...

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Yep, his finger was hovering over the tit, then the tat, then back to the tit and so on. His decisiveness can always be counted on. As someone noted earlier, NZ tends to be very “pragmatic” over trade issues and, in any event, Luxon wouldn’t have enjoyed the populist boost that other leaders have f...

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Good time to buy? Always the hardest job picking the bottom. However, if you are going to hold longterm and have the means to go fairly big I don't think you can lose form here. Warren Buffet stockpiling all previously selling and stockpiling all that cash is probably going to make a killing putting...

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-The EU is stupid putting up for tariffs on US good. There's a US trade deficit, the EU will run off of goods to tariff before the US does. The EU has a 39% trade surplus with the US which was why Trump hit them with a 20% tariff The US is an importing nations, totally dependent on other countries ...

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I dunno , being surrounded by gays when in Newtown and living with a lesbian couple for a while ; I was repeatably shocked at some of the language used . Slowly I got so used to it that I even went there as the relationships became trusted and more casual . I’ll admit it was long ago and me in my m...

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I take it you don't trust them to run a hot bath. What do you think of their views on homosexuality?

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Look up what Bussy means. He has deleted 52 posts and made his account private. Apparently one of his deleted posts had a picture of his young son sitting on his lap with Bussy galore posted below. That blue spiral symbol he has on his page is also very similar to one flagged by the FBI as one used ...

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All deeply conservative religious people are tossers. Why you expected him to be any different is beyond me. Pot kettle black zero self awareness these far left bigots I'm not on the left at all, but I've never met anyone deeply religious that I'd trust to run a hot bath. Different to people who ju...

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They should send Folau to Palestine.

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Wow how good is this competition this year. Very competitive. Well done Drua.

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This is ironic coming from you. Most of your posting in this thread is US right wing soundbites that you're trying to imprint on a political climate in NZ that is completely different. The same predictability of response can be aimed at you and a few others on here from the other side. You're accus...

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Oh shit now I think I am the one enabling this virtue signaling hypocritical bore. Time to go do something else and let him get back endlessly posting his partners opinions about school lunches and how terrible Christopher Luxon is. Of course they miss the irony that if Luxon is rolled the replaceme...

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This is ironic coming from you. Most of your posting in this thread is US right wing soundbites that you're trying to imprint on a political climate in NZ that is completely different. The same predictability of response can be aimed at you and a few others on here from the other side. You're accus...

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This is ironic coming from you. Most of your posting in this thread is US right wing soundbites that you're trying to imprint on a political climate in NZ that is completely different. The same predictability of response can be aimed at you and a few others on here from the other side. You're accus...

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Compared to yours it’s the frigging Hoover dam ! Ohhhhhh now who’s re-editing their posts eh ? Seriously I edited my post changing it from ' a weak argument' to 'a lack of understanding of others arguments that you are presenting as your own.' According to the post clock I posted at 00:46 and edite...

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What specifically don't you like about Labour and the Green's?

Do tell and go into depth with multiple posts like you do on the parties on the right.

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I wouldn't say it is snide though just a resort to basic insults to cover up a lack of understanding of others arguments that you are presenting as your own.

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You are a very lazy thinker and rather dishonest as well . In fact I criticised the Labour government quite often for lack of delivery . What got my goose was the fact that very good research was funded and agreed by several groups only to be then ignored . The stupid waste of millions for counsell...

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Oh by the way No one belittles other posters on this thread more than you. If someone disagrees with you directly it isn't long before you start attacking their intelligence or character. If you want I can go back through the last few pages of this very thread and quote examples but I am sure you ca...

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Hardly anyone is arguing with you about Luxon and Willis anymore they have shown themselves to not be very competent in their roles and need to go. They absolutely should not have cancelled the ferries just stopped the stupid spend on the port infrastructure to bring the cost down and fired the boar...

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An interesting thread to read today. My eyes started to glaze over however when Tubby started on his left-right bullshit…hate that pigeon-holeing of a persons point of view. Left-right always reminds me of armies on the march…and having to declare yourself entering an English football stadium to si...

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