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Thank you @ninjakitty.bsky.social for allowing us to use your work. #nzpol #PayEquity

If you weren't angry enough about the underfunding of the health system, this will increase the rage levels. open.spotify.com/episode/7fqO... #nzpol

Every private sector funding needs to be available for comparison with public sector, without the ability to hide behind commercial sensitivity. If you're getting public funding, the public funding you is entitled to know the numbers. If you don't want to disclose you can fuck off. #nzpol

#nzpol Voting outside your electorate question The young one surprised us & came home for the long weekend. He's registered to vote in Dunedin. As he's working in Napier for the next 2 weeks, can he cast a special vote on Monday while he's here?

With fresh experience of our son buying his first home, with $71k income, reducing the deposit would have dramatically reduced borrowing capacity to a very limiting level. At 5% he wouldn't be able to buy anything. So again, this isn't a policy aimed at those who already have & the banks. #nzpol

Simeon Brown is 100% correct. That is why he should pay at least 5% more in income tax, whatever % in CGT and 2.5% wealth tax. Just because a policy is made universal to make it easy on admin costs, doesn't mean it will actually be free for those at the top. #nzpol

We need to stop talking about the need to grow the pie. The pie is fucking growing or you will not boast the 2.8% increase in GDP. We need to start asking how much of the pie do the top 1% get, the top 10% and how much the lower 50% get. Women can tell you that size doesn't matter. #nzpol

Oh, please do fuck off Ramsey. Poverty is ultimately a mathematical reflection of NOT ENOUGH MONEY. #nzpol #TaxTheBillionairesOutofExistence

This is why the Greens are being attacked in the media. They are the definition of "the marketplace of ideas" and not "the marketplace of what money can buy" and the CoC can't stand it. Vote accordingly. #nzpol

Same one who is head of a charter school? oh, the corruption they keep... #nzpol

"Those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." #nzpol

Is being a billionair immoral? Yes, yes, it is. None of them invented anything, and all of them extracted someone else's work & resources. Then they pretend to be the good ones with Philanthropy that again benefits them. www.instagram.com/reel/DdJsOJN... #nzpol

Fucking idiot. Putting the Greens between a rock & a hard place. If they buckle because they don't want the cruelty back in charge they'd lose support they work so hard to gain, if they walk away he will blame them for the cruelty back in charge. #nzpol

Considering Nats are polling so low their entire front bench of list MPs will be gone, who exactly do they have to take on the big portfolios? And it's not like ACT or NZF have any depth amongst them either. #nzpol

#nzpol #leadersdebate Is Peters not aware that that quote about Khaki Pakeha is his own words?

#nzpol #leadersdebate I thought grandpa Winnie was against career politicians (even though he's in parliament since the dawn of time)

#nzpol #leadersdebate Well done Rawiri Waititi for saying it as it is, the Māori Health Authority was asked to turn around health outcomes for Māori in less than a year, something the general system failed to do in 180 years!

#nzpol #leadersdebate Seymour, from the party that canceled pay equity has the chutzpah to quote Kate Shepherd!

#nzpol #leadersdebate Entertaining how Winston wakes up suddenly and argues a point that was made 3 questions ago.

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well, I have others." #nzpol

Maybe we should give tax a new name. We can even give it an acronym, like maybe Return On Investment or ROI. Will it make it less of a juvenile mud slinging contest? #nzpol

If you think things are much better over the ditch, think again. www.instagram.com/reel/DeYkvxJ... #nzpol

It was obvious to anyone paying a bit of attention that Opp will abandon the tax policy to start with, as Q said this was a long-term goal. Without a change to the tax system, there can not be any other change. #nzpol

Q says she doesn't believe Luxon when he says he will not work with Opp. This makes me wonder - why would you want to be in govt with someone you don't trust a word he is saying. @patbrittenden.bsky.social can you please ask Q when you interview her next? #nzpol

Under his eye. #nzpol

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Uncle Peters wants to be PM. That's what he's basically saying when he says "the country is desperate for a change." #nzpol

Please don't threaten us with good times. I hope all those this govt have pushed out will give them the kick out they deserve. #nzpol

I saved this because I knew it would become handy. www.instagram.com/reel/DeIxL7J... #nzpol #TaxTheRich

Also... www.instagram.com/reel/DeK3kHZ... #nzpol

#nzpol This is not charitable generosity. This is rich fuckers who are doing their best to block a wealth tax are asking the rest of us, who can't avoid paying tax, to fund their pretend generosity! Just pay your fair share, you ghouls. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

#nzpol 47 point(less) points and not one of them is - making sure people have enough money to spend in said small businesses, which is the most crucial point of difference between a struggling & a successful business. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

#nzpol I fully support this use of 'cry me a river.' substack.com/@ganeshrahir...

#nzpol Sorry, @chrishipkins.bsky.social this was an easy question to answer if you're not a neoliberal. It's not morally acceptable for any one individual to be a billionaire. None of them became one because they worked hard but all of them got there via exploitation.

#nzpol Luxon is still lying. His own minister was cornered in the house to admit they only hired 54 nurses in 2 years. The debate isn't parliament, Jack Tame, you can ask him why he's lying.

FFS. "They want to take over the country." You imbecile. You took over THEIR country! #nzpol

I hope Labour & Greens voters in Epsom have heard Goldsmith saying he would love to be an electorate MP & will vote for him. I know that will mean returning a white supremacist to parliament, but it will remove the smirk on Seymour face & probably remove Willis from parliament. #nzpol

Since we are so captured by defining the right size of govt as 30% of GDP, the solution is to increase GDP. But how do you do that in a tough economic climate? Easy. Add into the GDP calcularion all the free work (mostly) women do. There's billions of $ there. #nzpol

I think Craig Renney would agree with Seymour here. We should exempt the interest earned in Kiwisaver from tax to get the compounding effect and tax it as income when it is withdrawn. The only positive policy ACT has is one the stole from a socialist 🤣 #nzpol

That's $4.5b that would be circulating in the economy. Bring it on! #nzpol

Which religious values are we talking about? Because the current Christian fundies get a big fail on the most basic value - look after the volunerable. Side note. If you need a religion to tell you what you should value, perhaps you need a more in-depth look at yourself. #nzpol

Nicola Willis needs to use a govt scheme of low cost financing to put solar on the roof of her home? On what she gets paid as a minister? Seriously? What happened to "if you can afford it you should pay your own way"? #nzpol www.instagram.com/reel/Dd7EVa7...

First rule of graphic design - when you give the job of photoshoping to an amateur, don't use a white background. #nzpol

I want my hard earned tax I pay to go towards raising benefits, properly funding the health system, building schools, hospitals & PT, electrification and raising incomes of those most in need. I also know where I don't want my tax to go towards Mr rich & sorted. #nzpol

I am looking for a washing machine for the son who's spreading his wings. What can I say, the free market and its much touted competition is working so good that every single store is offering the same machine for exactly the same price. Third supermarket chain, anyone? #nzpol

#nzpol After you have finished understanding why we must tax the rich, go a bit further into understanding why we should stop chasing growth and chasing that ultimate washing machine none of us need to individually have at home. youtu.be/vTV7XdEWs-k?...

#nzpol If you haven't yet listened to this podcast, please do and then you will understand why we must vote for the Greens. I'm hopeful that as discussed, the wealth tax in California will win the vote and be the first domino to fall. youtu.be/gk9pDTI_uak?...

@chrishipkins.bsky.social Remove this guy and put Craig Renney in his spot. #nzpol

Look, we know it will harm people but we are comfortable with it. Goldsmith, propbably. #nzpol