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-Green infrastructure plan:✅ -Agriculture in the ETS:✅, though an idea I might push is to use the revenue to provide additional credits for agricultural emissions reduction -Clean Car Discount:✅, but the revenue mechanism could be more elegant -Green Jobs Guarantee:❔, highly highly skeptical #nzpol

On the jobs guarantee, there are nearly 150,000 unemployed and rising, so I'm just skeptical how even a Green government will be able to fund close to that much well-paying, green, and productive labour, especially since their infrastructure promises clearly won't come 100% from the unemployed.

-Green infrastructure plan:✅ -Agriculture in the ETS:✅, though an idea I might push is to use the revenue to provide additional credits for agricultural emissions reduction -Clean Car Discount:✅, but the revenue mechanism could be more elegant -Green Jobs Guarantee:❔, highly highly skeptical #nzpol

Daily Tax Policy Review: ACT #nzpol (disclaimer: tax policies are reviewed independent of other policies that the party would implement alongside them)

Targeting the Kiwisaver Tax Credit: ❌ You know me, I don't like means-testing, and this is basically another 3% tax on income above $48,000, but it's even worse because it deducts from people's retirement savings, but it's worse again because it's not actually a tax and is therefore less efficient

Daily Tax Policy Review: ACT #nzpol (disclaimer: tax policies are reviewed independent of other policies that the party would implement alongside them)

Abolish the Bright-Line Test: ❌ What can I say? I like capital gains taxes, especially those on residential property and land

Daily Tax Policy Review: ACT #nzpol (disclaimer: tax policies are reviewed independent of other policies that the party would implement alongside them)

I'd even be happy to see it go to 100% of GST and be expanded to other consented projects like infrastructure and energy and stuff so that we can get building things that matter

Daily Tax Policy Review: ACT #nzpol (disclaimer: tax policies are reviewed independent of other policies that the party would implement alongside them)

Low-And-Middle-Income Tax Credit: ❌ They don't show how this works right now, but it works like an EITC, which sucks. Further, it's not shown on the graph, but because the LMITC is deducted at 8%, the marginal rate for between $48000 and $58000 increases to 25.5% only with taxes, which also sucks.

Daily Tax Policy Review: ACT #nzpol (disclaimer: tax policies are reviewed independent of other policies that the party would implement alongside them)

There's so much mixed messaging on both sides surrounding the semantics of 'socialism,' especially for Americans. (1/3)

Some Republicans will call this or that social program socialist and other Republicans will deny that the Nordics are socialist simply based on their social programs but rather are 'market economies.' (2/3)

Daily Tax Policy Review: Labour #nzpol (disclaimer: tax policies are reviewed independent of other policies that the party would implement alongside them)

GST of Fresh and Frozen Fruit and Veg: ❌ If you've ever heard an economist on the news talking about this, you probably know why this isn't a great policy. Complex, not super progressive, and there are many higher quality proposals both for cost of living and for incentivizing healthy eating.

Daily Tax Policy Review: Labour #nzpol (disclaimer: tax policies are reviewed independent of other policies that the party would implement alongside them)

#nzpol Any of you ever heard of the parabole of the blind men and the elephant? I'm considering making a political cartoon about that, but with politicians (or party voters?) as the blindmen and the issue of housing as the elephant.

National ditched the MDRS (cringe) and emphasises greenfields development. I'm concerned about the urban limit of all the cities, but the NPS-UD ultimately delivers very little on density, and I find that density really needs to be the major focus if we want a more egalitarian housing solution.

#nzpol Any of you ever heard of the parabole of the blind men and the elephant? I'm considering making a political cartoon about that, but with politicians (or party voters?) as the blindmen and the issue of housing as the elephant.