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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 5h

Nicola Willis promised affordable tax cuts and zero borrowings - OR she would resign.

Instead, Willis borrowed $12,000 million i.e. $12 billion & has created another $8 billion hole in the budget. She's now down $20 billion and counting #nzpol #kiwi

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 4h

We have progressive taxation, which makes that tricky to get averages.

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 5h

That’s not correct. Even with the movement in the tax rates since the coalition took over, that is wildly inaccurate. www.theguardian.com/world/2023/a...

New Zealand’s millionaires pay lower tax rates than cashiers – it’s time to fix the system | Max Rashbrooke

Inland Revenue report finds New Zealand’s 311 wealthiest families pay 8.9% of their income in tax, compared to 10.5% paid by minimum wage workers

www.theguardian.com

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 10h

Oh! QUICK! Someone rush and tell our Atlas plant Seymour that Antifa are landlords - take that welfare off them!!!

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12h

he also said that 80% of antifa's members are landlords and if you lower the cost of housing, you basically starve the network of its financing

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 10h

Wishing you the speediest of recoveries!
It is a good looking wall 💖💖

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 12h

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.
Love,
Ms Rachel

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 11h

Imagine if the media was as interested in the Jago coverup and the amount of resources act and David Seymour personally pump into all that name suppression?
Why does the media give Seymour a pass with his 8% discount Temu fascist wannabe bullshit? Why?

UrbanAKL @urbanakl.bsky.social · 1d

I count five sentences of fluff, just to highlight that:

"the Greens' director of communications... announced he was resigning from his role to take a break..."

Is shitting on the Greens more profitable than actual scandals from the coalition govt?

#Nzpol

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 1d

Green Party loses another staffer

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Earl Mardle - Death Cult Govt - Squalour, poverty & Disease @rlmrdlnz.bsky.social · Dec 13

If the asset strip pumped cash into the economy so we all felt better off, that might work in the short term to get them through the project
But they are also sucking money out of the rest of the economy as well to feed to their tax cut buddies
the effects will be very quick, may be here already

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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 1d

Thought so. I shall wait for all of the social media posts from various political actors clearly condemning this political violence and unacceptable behaviour against Parliament's first nonbinary MP.

#nzpol

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

19-year-old charged after sending death threats to Green MP who since resigned

Detective Inspector Warren Olsson said the nature and volume of the threats met the threshold for investigation and subsequent prosecution.

www.stuff.co.nz

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trickyNOtreat 🎃 @trickykat.bsky.social · 17h

real shitposters only use lower case because we are anti-capitalism

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enrich12 @enrich12.bsky.social · 14h

Silly Mike!The Dems aren't the ones that are propelling down from helicopters to terrorize people in the middle of the night!
THAT WOULD BE YOU. #CrueltyIsKey

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the lunatic is in my head. @bluefrommagioh.bsky.social · 14h

Mike needs the whole NO KINGS thing explained to him.

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350 Aotearoa @350nz.bsky.social · 11h

Energy poverty is rising - and THIS is the government's response?

The govt is helping the shareholders of the fossil fuel industry and the gentailers, when they should be helping lower energy costs through cheap, community renewables!
350.org.nz/damp-squib-e...

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 11h

This is a Trump goon squad now, isn’t it? Democracy in the USA appears to be dying. Holy shit. I’m so sorry.

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 12h

This is probably a very stupid question……
As she is very clearly not an immigrant, on what basis is she being detained?
Your country looks terrifying right now…hope you all stay safe

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 12h

It’s also the hoarding money

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 12h

Imagine working for ICE. How soulless would you have to be?

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 12h

Cameraman: "You guys gonna share your names, too, or ya just gonna cover your face?"

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 12h

He is scary as fuck….

However this interview was telling - he knows the pitchforks are coming

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Tech billionaire Peter Thiel blasted for giving 'worst response EVER'

Tech billionaire Peter Thiel left viewers stunned when he gave a rambling, stuttering answer to Piers Morgan's question about the public's reaction to UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's murder.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 12h

Two not very able seamen head for the iceberg

The secret diary of .. the Coalition Titanic

newsroom.co.nz

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Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 12h

So Argentina, with its Trumpite leader & Atlas-Network-wet-dream ultra-neolib economic policies has...how do I put this...turned into an ECONOMIC BASKET CASE requiring eye-watering bailouts.

Crazy & scary to think our psycho-killer, Milei admiring Govt will have learned nothing from this debacle.

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 12h

Sir Geoffrey Palmer and Chris Finlayson offer praise for the Waitangi Tribunal – and damning criticism of the coalition Government. Sam Sachdeva reports.

Hell hath no fury like an attorney-general scorned

newsroom.co.nz

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 12h

The rich don’t pay their fair share. Never really have.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16h

Corporate income taxes are $77 billion lower than last year, primarily due to the Republican tax cuts for the rich.

itep.org/trump-tax-la...

Well, That Was Fast: Trump Tax Law’s New Corporate Breaks are Already Worsening the Deficit

Corporate income taxes for the fiscal year that ended in September are $77 billion lower than in the previous year, a 15 percent drop.

itep.org

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Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 12h

So Argentina, with its Trumpite leader & Atlas-Network-wet-dream ultra-neolib economic policies has...how do I put this...turned into an ECONOMIC BASKET CASE requiring eye-watering bailouts.

Crazy & scary to think this Milei admiring Govt will have learned nothing from this debacle.

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 12h

She is selling assets. Income producing assets. Important infrastructure assets.
These people are economic vandals assert stripping the country

New Zealand Herald (Unofficial) @nzherald.nzcow.com · 1d

📢 Willis said Chorus move does not amount to asset sales, insists economy is improving.

👉 Bot to check Bluesky account creation dates

Nicola Willis says Chorus sales money could go towards funding hospitals and schools

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 13h

This sweaty weirdo is who John Key gifted citizenship and “nz apocalypse insurance” to.
Turns out he is creating the apocalypse that he bought the insurance for.

He is a dangerous sweaty weirdo…..most billionaires are

Andreas Hopf 🇩🇪 🇨🇭 🇬🇧 🇸🇪 @andreashopf.bsky.social · 13h

Peter Thiel really lost his marbles.

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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