Labour govt 2020-23

[Logen Ninefingers]

You still haven't told us where the $14b is coming from.

No right to criticise labour when that's out there.

I don't have to tell you anything red panda. We know where Grant gets his untold billions from: he just borrows & loads us up with more debt.

[dobby41]

I don't have to tell you anything red panda. We know where Grant gets his untold billions from: he just borrows & loads us up with more debt.

And Willis is going to have to borrow even more as her figures just don't add up!

[Logen Ninefingers]

And Willis is going to have to borrow even more as her figures just don't add up!

According to you they don't add up. And Robbo's numbers have never added up, tens of billions wasted and it's just explained away with 'fully costed'. It was ridiculous some years ago and now it's a farce. Labour keep promising stuff, free this, free that....I don't blame National for countering Labours endless parade of bribes because this election is critical. If a LABGREETEPATI government takes office the country will be well & truly stuffed and I'd expect to see large-scale capital flight.

[winner69]

Jacinda said this not long ago

Free dental care a political dream and a financial nightmare

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/free-dent...cial-nightmare

[ithaka]

Jacinda said this not long ago

Free dental care a political dream and a financial nightmare

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/free-dent...cial-nightmare

Bugger! That adds credibility to today's policy announcement then.

[justakiwi]

Labour would have been better to offer subsidised dental care to everyone, rather than free care to just a few.

[Logen Ninefingers]

Labour would have been better to offer subsidised dental care to everyone, rather than free care to just a few.

It’s hardly a few though is it: everyone under 30. ‘Divide and conquer’. Chipkins is the great divider: town vs country, young vs old, race vs race.

Probably just a matter of time until farmers are branded ‘kulaks’ and their land is confiscated for the coming new green collective farms. This will go hand in glove with ‘seizing the means of production.’ I’ll see you in the gulags.

[Getty]

Recently drove through Rotovagrance, that used to be known as Rotovegas.

Several of the Fenton St motels that housed the 'social ' types have been torched, presumably by those types themselves.

Is there a government that will cull them out, or is NZ just becoming a big hot pool?

[Logen Ninefingers]

Recently drove through Rotovagrance, that used to be known as Rotovegas.

Several of the Fenton St motels that housed the 'social ' types have been torched, presumably by those types themselves.

Is there a government that will cull them out, or is NZ just becoming a big hot pool?

An article from November 2022 -

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-d...BUTHCZUF4KZGI/

'Nearly $70 million has been spent on emergency housing in Rotorua over almost five years and the average stay in motels has stretched to 35 weeks, new figures reveal.

A slide presentation by the Rotorua Lakes Council, obtained by the Rotorua Daily Post Weekend, also reveals Government officials were warned about the city's dire situation in February last year.

The presentation described Rotorua as being on a "downward spiralling poverty crisis exacerbated by siloed Government initiatives".'

[Blue Skies]

Free dental care for everyone under 30, (eventually to be extended to all ) is a brilliant policy move.
Only costs $380 million versus $14.6 Billion tax cuts, its not inflationary, & will appeal to not just those in that age group but also parents and grandparents of people in that age group, worried about the cost of going to the dentist.


I see NZME Head of Business Fran O'Sullivan worried, as I am about National's policy to open the doors to foreign buyers once again, putting pressure on the squeezed middle finding it hard to service mortgages or buy a home.

Great for National's base - property investors, - but terrible for everyone else. Mortgage rates will eventually come back, but this is just going to reignite house bubble, & more unoccupied homes with overseas owners.

And will we go back to those days of Auckland suburbs full of vacant houses owned by foreign owners, and the heavy marketing of NZ homes overseas - advertising no CGT, no Stamp Duty, no regulations around occupancy & can flip after only 2 years. ?