Spotted this gem in a footnote on page 62 of Treasury's He Tirohanga Mokopuna
"Between 25% and 30% of everyone born in New Zealand is living overseas by age 30, and emigration rates are even higher among those with tertiary qualifications"
Radical idea here - how about stop shitting on our young?
this country is so funny: a series of welfare subsidies that end up in the hands of landlords and private childcare providers; a chronically unaffordable housing market; a publicly-owned electricity generation and retail racket; oligopolies in supermarket and telecommunication sectors lol
the party portrays itself as the only legitimate representative of māori, and by implication any māori who doesn’t support it must be plastic, a 5 minute māori etc… the rhetoric they deployed against labour in the tamaki byelection (takuta’s racism aside) was truly shocking
hate to say it but people like sina and i who’ve been around more than 5 minutes have been warning about the direction TPM’s been travelling in since at least 2023. it’s a highly divisive party, especially within māori society itself. solidarity with eru www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Govt takes a billion in revenue each year in dividends and tax from the electricity sector. This is a regressive form of taxation that causes factories to collapse. Why cant we just tax capital gains like a grown up country
in short: the government’s interest as a majority shareholder in the gentailers is stronger than its interest as a national policymaker. you can trace almost every national issue back to this basic truth. the tax base is too narrow and the settings too low
inadequate tax settings that fail to raise enough revenue to fund the crown’s annual operations mean that governments will act as a motivated shareholder seeking maximum profit rather than a policy-maker seeking to preserve the industrial base/lower household costs. this is why energy reform fails
but seriously on the matter of civic infrastructure wellington and dunedin are being left in the dust. tauranga, christchurch, hamilton, and auckland are just going great guns by comparison
hate to have an opinion on wellington’s civic infrastructure but the idea of dumping a hotel in te ngakau between the town hall and library is so offensive. when te manawataki o te papa is finished bloody TAURANGA is going to have a more inclusive and progressive civic space than wellington
probably a greater deterrent to foreign investment is a government minister preemptively threatening to legislate over the top of judicial decisions rather than the emerging role of tikanga within those decisions
the thing that gets me about trump is his entire administration is just slop and fan service for online head cases - paracetamol causes autism !! - but we’re all so soaked in their propaganda, our attention spans are so thoroughly destroyed by their screens, that everyone just shrugs
