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    Quote Originally Posted by Panda-NZ- View Post
    & the financial perks of course. So, a party which doesn't believe in government now has 10 people drawing a salary on the taxpayer.
    No more salaries than are already paid. Thankfully with national and act we have a loud voice calling out the numerous failings of the labour government to deliver, almost anything!

    Incredible the power of stardust but the failures of labour to deliver will undo the new government and we shall soon enough see the leader follow her dream outside the party.

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    John only scraped in because his opposition was hopeless. I think the situation is changed now that lots of returning expats/migrants becoming eligble to vote.

    They have 35-45 seats as the "strong oppostion"..

    Maybe they can hold themselves to account and not change leader or think that Trump-lite is a good platform.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Panda-NZ- View Post
    John only scraped in because his opposition was hopeless. I think the situation is changed now that lots of returning expats/migrants becoming eligble to vote.

    They have 35-45 seats as the "strong oppostion".
    Maybe they can hold themselves to account and not change leader or think Trump-lite is a good platform.
    That is almost incomprehensible gibberish, the returnees are cashed up, they’re not going to like socialist policy stealing their hard earned.

    Jacinda is already embarrassed by her party inability to achieve anything, she’ll be gone before the second term is over, further failure to deliver will finish her political capital if she doesn’t.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baa_Baa View Post
    That is almost incomprehensible gibberish, the returnees are cashed up, they’re not going to like socialist policy stealing their hard earned.

    Jacinda is already embarrassed by her party inability to achieve anything, she’ll be gone before the second term is over, further failure to deliver will finish her political capital if she doesn’t.
    Even the greens wealth tax only applies to the amount above $1m.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baa_Baa View Post
    That is almost incomprehensible gibberish, the returnees are cashed up, they’re not going to like socialist policy stealing their hard earned.

    Jacinda is already embarrassed by her party inability to achieve anything, she’ll be gone before the second term is over, further failure to deliver will finish her political capital if she doesn’t.
    Why 'almost'? It's total rubbish. Not possible to know who John is, or what 35 to 45 seats means.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Panda-NZ- View Post
    & the financial perks of course. So, a party which doesn't believe in government now has 10 people drawing a salary on the taxpayer.
    That is a cynical comment.

    Have a read of the "Smaller Government Bill" to reduce the number of MPs from 120 to 100 and reduce the size of the executive from 31 to 20. ACT proposed this.

    Reducing the size of the public service and the size of parliament has been a key ACT policy since inception.

    You may remember the referendum (non binding) in 1999 to reduce the number of MPs to 99 had 81.5 percent in favour and 18.5 against... that is an overwhelmingly mandate for this to be implemented but other than NZ First and ACT all the other parties absolutely ignored this referendum.

    You can call plenty of parties "troughers" but ACT is certainly not one of them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norwest View Post
    That is a cynical comment.

    Have a read of the "Smaller Government Bill" to reduce the number of MPs from 120 to 100 and reduce the size of the executive from 31 to 20. ACT proposed this.

    Reducing the size of the public service and the size of parliament has been a key ACT policy since inception.

    You may remember the referendum (non binding) in 1999 to reduce the number of MPs to 99 had 81.5 percent in favour and 18.5 against... that is an overwhelmingly mandate for this to be implemented but other than NZ First and ACT all the other parties absolutely ignored this referendum.

    You can call plenty of parties "troughers" but ACT is certainly not one of them.
    Yes as why ACT got my vote
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    Quote Originally Posted by Panda-NZ- View Post
    Even the greens wealth tax only applies to the amount above $1m.
    Relatively speaking that's not a huge value for debt-free assets. We are already going to punish the younger generations through massive intergenerational debt, and now we're suggesting that we should also tax those generations on any potential assets they inherit from their parents because they supposedly wealthy. The only people who will benefit from a policy like this will be accountants, lawyers, and the immigration services of foreign countries.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zaphod View Post
    Relatively speaking that's not a huge value for debt-free assets. We are already going to punish the younger generations through massive intergenerational debt, and now we're suggesting that we should also tax those generations on any potential assets they inherit from their parents because they supposedly wealthy. The only people who will benefit from a policy like this will be accountants, lawyers, and the immigration services of foreign countries.
    ............And big-mattress manufacturers.

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    Who would have thought me and David Seymour on the same page regarding a current issue. Not much influence from the opposition benches though.

    https://www.interest.co.nz/news/1075...onetary-policy

    I am surprised he didn't suggest the free market setting interest rates but I suspect this type of libertarianism would upset his voter base.
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