Liam Wright

[henry cooke @henrycooke]

NEW: 15k pensioners had their winter energy payment wrongly suspended this winter thanks to an error in a bill rushed through the House last year.

[Clint Smith @ClintVSmith]

anyone who knows anything about a union knows they are democratic. The union leadership doesn't decide whether there's a strike. The members vote on it, and they're the ones who turn out to the protests.

[Liam Wright @LiamWright6995]

Right-Wingers don't read

[Eric Crampton @EricCrampton]

The "economics" section at Unity Books.

[Bhaskar Sunkara @sunraysunray]

Six years since we lost our brother. RIP Michael Brooks.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

A new research paper finds that catch-up development is largely a myth.

Since 1960, the income gap between advanced economies (the core) and developing economies (the periphery) has widened by 170–270%, depending on the currency concept.

Global inequality is getting worse.

[Liam Wright @LiamWright6995]

Both major parties are doing exactly what the Taxpayer's Union wants by having inflation erode the LTF.

We've been in real terms cutting the fuel tax since 2020.

[New Zealand Taxpayers' Union @TaxpayersUnion]

How will Labour fund their new policy?

Who knows? The Land Transport Fund looks after core services and infrastructure, so what will they replace their takings with?

The policy leaves taxpayers with more questions than clarity. 😵‍💫

If Labour are serious about easing pressures during a cost of living crisis, this is not the way to go.

[Oli Dugmore @OliDugmore]

If it even needed saying, trillionaires shouldn’t exist

[edward miller @labourcartel]

Sure farmers don’t catch the subsidised bus, but public transport users don’t get their livestock emissions totally subsidised so go figure

[Liam Wright @LiamWright6995]

@JosephMooneyMP They were literally talking about a land value tax... on a residential property.

[Musical Chairs @MusicalChairs14]

We don't need to grow the economy to get higher wages - we just need workers to get a bigger slice.

[Liam Wright @LiamWright6995]

@UnionJacked__ Many of the working-class voters most concerned about immigration are those most reliant on public health and pension spending. Immigration can slow down the population aging that places a high tax burden on current workers and strains the services people rely on and deserve.

[Liam Wright @LiamWright6995]

@synacknz @aniobrien God forbid they meet the healthy home standards National reneged on cutting.

[Liquid Times @Liquid_Times]

This is a straight up lie because this govt has been selling off state owned land that should be used for public housing.
Meanwhile, more & more Kiwis are sleeping on the streets.

[Musical Chairs @MusicalChairs14]

@JosephMooneyMP Good grief, join the dots. As rentier capitalism (fuelled by rapid private debt expansion) drove inequality, the Govt had to spend and tax more and more to redistribute money to people so that they could pay the rent and buy food.

[Liam Wright @LiamWright6995]

@danwallacenz @PronouncedHare Good! Wouldn't be ideal if it wasn't!

[Liam Wright @LiamWright6995]

@foxcar_joey This is only a problem if you think it's more important to appear fair as opposed to use public housing as the key mechanism to reduce housing related poverty.

Just build more public homes it objectively has a positive effect for private renters the more public housing exists.

[James Medlock @jdcmedlock]

The US has one of the most progressive tax codes on paper. But our tax and transfer system reduces inequality far less than countries with broader tax systems.

Tax cuts can't help people who don't have an income, but a generous tax financed welfare state can.

[🌸🍁Angela🌸🦊 @AngelaR_1011]

Please, Mr. Waid, feel free to write younger Bruce and Dick forever 🥹