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@caffeineworship Good post, totally agree

The situation is even worse for Joan, as many high earners, who contribute the most tax, will leave

That will increase PAYE and LVT, hitting the people who stay hardest

TOP's social/fiscal experiment will fundamentally break NZ

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@TheRedbaiter There is only a small of a percentage of NZers keeping the lights on for the rest of everyone else

Wong's policies will shrink this further

Noone is going to stick around for this shit

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@JustineBateman The Spectator
Beautiful Bizarre Magazine
Rolling Stone

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@2ETEKA Interesting question 🤔

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@chrisluxonmp So embarrassing 🤦‍♀️

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@mikelavelle93 Count Binface is genuinely what's missing from NZ politics, I love him 😂

#nzpol

[Michael Lavelle @mikelavelle93]

This may be the greatest 2 minutes and 44 seconds of television I’ve ever seen

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@dbseymour Next?!

There is still time, even now, to withdraw or change ACT's support for the India-NZ FTA

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@japan_nobunaga @Miss_Competence I love Netflix's Old Enough! Japanese preschoolers (2 - 5yo) do first errands alone, with camera crews safely following

It's super cute, but also shows little kids are capable of so much in a safe community

Wouldn't dream of my kids doing this where we live

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@aniobrien It's a catastrophic betrayal of vulnerable children

Can't begin to comprehend the scale of deportations, prosecutions, systems overhaul that needs to happen, and the horror that nothing may be done

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@FlyAirNZ @Being_Kara Well, yet another reason to fly Emirates or Qantas

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@PronouncedHare @aniobrien In NZ, far more funding for the arts comes from Lottery Grants Board profits than from general taxes

And Lotto sales disproportionately come from poorer communities

So... kinda worse? 😬

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@2ETEKA National is planning an FTA with Bangladesh next

What will NZ have left after we've given so much, uncapped, to India? What does Bangladesh even offer us?

Can we stop selling out to shitholes?

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https://t.co/IqF4vSquDh

[Lenore Skenazy @FreeRangeKids]

Soon everyone will be watching @Netflix's new Lord of the Flies.

So let me repeat what the great Peter Gray says about that story:

IT. IS. FICTION.

We can't use it as a reason to give kids less freedom because "this is what happens."

No it isn't. (REAL story of 6 kids marooned on an island found them working cooperatively and rescued more than a YEAR LATER. Look up "Tongan Castaways.")

As for the Netflix series, the book was adapted for the screen by Jack Thorne, co-writer of “Adolescence,” which was ALSO FICTION.

These twin visceral, dystopian soap operas about how horrible kids are when left to their own devices -- left with not enough adult supervision -- have a tendency to seep under the skin because they are so dramatic and shocking.

I just wish there was some way to dramatize how depressing it is to grow up with CONSTANT adult supervision. Mental health problems are soaring among kids and we keep hearing about how little they are allowed to do on their own. 50% of parents won't let their kids, 8-12, go to another aisle at the store.

That stat is NOT FICTION. It could be what's crippling a generation with anxiety. But it is not DRAMATIC, so we just keep perseverating on how bad kids behave when they're not in travel soccer.

https://t.co/f3Yx3wfZAY

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@ChrisPenknz @RyanHendersonNZ Thank you, come again

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@NZNationalParty Here's another fact:

You came out at the start and said you were desperate to sign an FTA with India within this term

You lost all negotiation strength at that point

India is likely in disbelief that they got away with it

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@xCameronAce @NicolaWillisMP @toddmcclaymp Yes 💯

The NIA needs to include:

• Realistic forecast how much India will actually buy

• Opportunity cost of NZ$34bn FDI into India (not NZ) & our IP given away

• ⬆️strain on health, infrastructure, fraud enforcement

• impact of job displacement, social cohesion issues

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@SAHZ74 @2ETEKA @chrisluxonmp 💯

A bleak day for the New Zealand as we know it today

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@DominoFreed @xCameronAce Withdrawal from FTAs is rare in practice. Never been done by NZ before. They create deep economic ties, vested business interests, and massive legal/political inertia

Renegotiation more likely if politics shift. But the concessions would likely make it not worth it