@synacknz@the_salty_one_ Any policy giving power to iwi that's created can be uncreated by a government bold enough. But that's a very valid concern, nonetheless.
@AquaticFlapper Any time you see a post like this, you can search "from:(username)" and add Charlie Kirk or Palestine/Israel and you'll almost always find them supporting terrorism and assassinations
They play on empathy to disarm you from their own violence
Manipulation, never take the bait
Train wreck interview for Qiulae Wong and the Opportunities Party as they declare war on pensioners — punishing lifetime savers and those who are “asset-rich, cash-poor”.
Wong effectively tells them: Downsize the family home you’ve scrimped and sacrificed for your whole life (essentially forced displacement), or defer the tax and rob your children’s inheritance by hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Wong then doubles down, arguing that those whose properties have risen by a million dollars or more should be taxed on those gains — seemingly blind to the fact these are mostly unrealised paper gains that have already driven up their rates.
In reality, this policy could pressure thousands, if not tens of thousands of pensioners into selling their family home.
Every dollar paid in Land Value Tax (or deferred) is money taken from healthcare, daily living costs, or gifts to the grandkids.
The Opportunities Party is sacrificing pensioners for their housing redistribution experiment.
@nettieg3 "Universal democracy doesn't create voting blocks where NGOs bride the electorate with benefits from the treasury"
Meanwhile... in the real world...
@saltyreigns I thought a good chunk of Aucklands lower income households didn't pay for busses/trains anyway? Who's this appealing to? Teenagers on minimum wage?
@the_salty_one_ How on earth does social housing rent go into arrears?? Isn't the "rent" paid for thanks to the taxpayer?? So these people have chosen to not pay the rent??
Seems like a self-correcting problem if you ask me...
@AkkadSecretary I suppose the norm used to be open a window if hot, put another log(or lump of coal) on the fire if cold. I guess the modern UK home is missing this revolutionary heating device called fire...