@Papaioeajake *rates can reduce the incentive to build so there can be some small, indirect and delayed effect iff public home building is insufficient. Land value rates would avoid this but it's a minor effect and is far outweighed by the benefit tenants get from increased council services
@Papaioeajake Increasing rates doesn't increase rent prices.* Increasing rates benefits tenants and costs landlords, that's why landlords are always so against it. Whatever point you think you're making isn't helping.
@MaxWatersNZ@EDTheDicta17093@jofromgreylynn Cigarettes are good to smuggle because they're small and light for their price. At $20 a kg (gross) out of a country as isolated as NZ you're gonna struggle to make any money.
@MaxWatersNZ@EDTheDicta17093@jofromgreylynn This exists in Indonesia for coal and palm oil, it's called a DMO. It's not an export ban and nor is it a maximum export quota. The proportion that must be sold domestically can be adjusted regularly as required in response to changes in domestic production or consumption.
@MaxWatersNZ@jofromgreylynn This is a pretty dumb comment because minimum domestic sale requirements are not that difficult to implement and would still allow around 95% of dairy output to be exported for international prices
@DailyIndgnation Greive's whole thing is believing and trying to convince his audience that the worst right wing freaks in NZ, real pariahs like Sean Plunket, are actually fine normal people
@matty_prasad @StuartBDonovan They love to complain about infrastructure types where you can add supply faster than you can add demand as well
You can add capacity to a school in like a year, to add demand takes multiple years to make the homes and then multiple more years to make the kids
@R_Harris494@labourcartel@chrishipkins Knowing NZLP they would say that, drive down the sale price, then cancel the policy once in government and let investors keep the windfall