Labour govt 2020-23

[Panda-NZ-]

um, er, I'm not sure who you are pandering to Panda, with that deduction from my post.

I can only assume you mean that English Catholics, and in particular Bill English & his wife, bring up their kids better than many, and are less inclined to send the bill to the taxpayer?

They still consume resources and despoil the environment.

These 6 kids will be wanting their OE soon, travelling the world in a passenger jet.

[fungus pudding]

Reckon IRD treating someone as a trader could depend on age of the asset owner and their intention when accumulating the assets. So a retired owner starting to supplement the pension by slowly selling down assets accumulated over many years, popping the proceeds in the bank (and paying RWT on the meagre interest) should not raise a red flag at IRD. Should not, but could I guess.

Common enough for financial advisers to advise liquidate 4% or so a year. Maybe if there are any posting here they could tell us what the tax advice is for that scenario.

I'm not sure that advice is common. Would surprise me.

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They still consume resources and despoil the environment.

These 6 kids will be wanting their OE soon, travelling the world in a passenger jet.

Pardon them for living.

They should have been born into a poor house?

[Logen Ninefingers]

Big story in Stuff today about how humans are destroying the planet and making all other species extinct, and it can all be solved by NZ becoming a beacon of green-socialism. In reality it will occur immediately to most people in NZ that we are pretty powerless to change the trajectory of destruction and pollution in nations like Brazil and China. Articles like this will do wonders for our suicide rates I should imagine, particularly among the young: to never-ending COVID anxiety you can add utter despair at the older generations having pulled up the ladder on affordable housing, plus constant messaging that humans are destructive and awful killers of other species & the planet in general.

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Big story in Stuff today about how humans are destroying the planet and making all other species extinct, and it can all be solved by NZ becoming a beacon of green-socialism. In reality it will occur immediately to most people in NZ that we are pretty powerless to change the trajectory of destruction and pollution in nations like Brazil and China. Articles like this will do wonders for our suicide rates I should imagine, particularly among the young: to never-ending COVID anxiety you can add utter despair at the older generations having pulled up the ladder on affordable housing, plus constant messaging that humans are destructive and awful killers of other species & the planet in general.

Ever repeating doom and gloom of global warming. I remember when I was in school I was told by now the polar ice caps would be pretty much melted. What did the sea level rose in 20 years? 1cm? I used to believe it.

[Panda-NZ-]

Pardon them for living.

They should have been born into a poor house?

When you're in paradise why would you want to leave. they're not being patriotic.

I try to cycle to work when I can.

[Panda-NZ-]

Ever repeating doom and gloom of global warming. I remember when I was in school I was told by now the polar ice caps would be pretty much melted. What did the sea level rose in 20 years? 1cm? I used to believe it.

We are undoubtedly killing other species (why might that be?)

We're not so different from them I think.

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When you're in paradise why would you want to leave. they're not being patriotic.

I try to cycle to work when I can.

Good on you for introducing patriotic to the conversation.

I ask where is the Patriotism of those who have been slow to get, or resisting getting the FREE covid jab?

Holding NZ's economy to ransom, and inflicting unnecessary debt on future generations.

Shame on them!

[BDL]

Ever repeating doom and gloom of global warming. I remember when I was in school I was told by now the polar ice caps would be pretty much melted. What did the sea level rose in 20 years? 1cm? I used to believe it.

Maybe you should go back to school and learn the science behind it properly.
Humans have, and still are, damaging our environment at an alarming rate. Easily our collective and biggest threat.

[Panda-NZ-]

I ask where is the Patriotism of those who have been slow to get, or resisting getting the FREE covid jab?

Agreed.

12 months of ads on every platform should have been enough 'warning'.