Labour govt 2020-23

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https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/300554289/housing-greed-threatens-new-zealands-future

"Housing greed threatens New Zealand's future.
This week the International Monetary Fund’s shared its perspective on New Zealand’s post-Covid recovery. The IMF delivered its most alarming statement about New Zealand’s biggest domestic problem: housing. The NZ property market is a financial stability risk.

Freeing up land supply, improving planning and zoning, and fostering infrastructure investment need to be part of the solution, the IMF said.

With house prices out of reach to most buyers unless they have a $200,000 deposit, young, well-educated, and ambitious New Zealanders will be reviewing their options as the border opens = a brain drain.

To this foreigner, it has been illuminating to watch NZ’s housing problem deteriorate over the past few years. The attempts to subdue property speculation met with hysterical, misplaced cries of communism or socialism.
The vested interests fighting tooth and nail to stop houses being built, despite clear evidence of a shortage. And the commentators and politicians transparently attempting to preserve the status quo for older voters."

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https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/300554289/housing-greed-threatens-new-zealands-future

"Housing greed threatens New Zealand's future.
This week the International Monetary Fund’s shared its perspective on New Zealand’s post-Covid recovery. The IMF delivered its most alarming statement about New Zealand’s biggest domestic problem: housing. The NZ property market is a financial stability risk.

Freeing up land supply, improving planning and zoning, and fostering infrastructure investment need to be part of the solution, the IMF said.

With house prices out of reach to most buyers unless they have a $200,000 deposit, young, well-educated, and ambitious New Zealanders will be reviewing their options as the border opens = a brain drain.

To this foreigner, it has been illuminating to watch NZ’s housing problem deteriorate over the past few years. The attempts to subdue property speculation met with hysterical, misplaced cries of communism or socialism.
The vested interests fighting tooth and nail to stop houses being built, despite clear evidence of a shortage. And the commentators and politicians transparently attempting to preserve the status quo for older voters."

Quite right. That's why we non-greedy ones stopped buying residential property way back; in fact as soon as we discovered commercial and industrial property is far less likely to attract rat-bag tenants, whose sole mission in life is to make their landlords life as miserable as theirs is.

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Quite right. That's why we non-greedy ones stopped buying residential property way back; in fact as soon as we discovered commercial and industrial property is far less likely to attract rat-bag tenants.

And thanks to the ‘unintended’ consequences of Cindy’s government treating ALL landlords as evil & enemies, imposing unnecessary requirements & punitive measures, rents have now gone up to record levels.

Rental crisis is now rental disaster - Clueless Cindy created.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/128...n-seven-months



The national median rent has experienced its largest annual increase in seven months, climbing by $45 to a record-breaking $575 per week, according to Trade Me’s latest February Rental Price Index.

Trade Me Property sales director Gavin Lloyd said the rising cost of living would be taking a toll on tenants.

“In the past 12 months we’ve seen rents rise consistently and every month it gets more expensive to rent a property in New Zealand. Add to that the rising cost of food and fuel, and tenants are having to dig deep into their wallets to pay for everyday necessities.” Not true because Cindy, speaking from the pulpit of truth, says there is no cost of living crisis.

Lloyd said rents in a number of regions hit a record, with Bay of Plenty up 6.4 per cent year-on-year to $585, Northland up 9 per cent to $545, and Taranaki up 22 per cent to $550.

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National's solution?

50 cents a day in a tax cut.
Offshore buyers allowed back in.
Migration, instead of productivity.

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National's solution?

50 cents a day in a tax cut.
Offshore buyers allowed back in.
Migration, in place of productivity.

50 cents a day fir the bottom dwellers who pay no tax any way. Those who actually work hard and generate wealth for NZ are going to pay less tax. That’s how it should always be.

What has banning offshore buyers done to property prices? Sent them rocketing higher under Cindy. Housing disaster under Cindy.

No migration? Great - that’s why the health system & support services are collapsing under Cindy.

More omicron deaths today - you got around yet to ask the families of the dead to thank Labour for allowing the milder omicron in?

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50 cents a day fir the bottom dwellers who pay no tax any way. Those who actually work hard and generate wealth for NZ are going to pay less tax. That’s how it should always be.

Then why have a whine about rents. Surely its a bottom dweller issue?

Or maybe its like the farmer suicides, useful as another thing to blame labour for.

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Then why have a whine about rents. Surely its a bottom dweller issue?

Or maybe its like the farmer suicides, useful as another thing to blame labour for.

Rents as a bottom dweller issue? Do you actually know how many NZers (especially those working hard to save for a deposit) rent? Yet another example of how arrogant & out of touch Labour & Clueless Cindy are.

Forget about young farmers suicides - just you deal with omicron deaths brought into the country by Cindy & labour. You contacted the families of the dead yet to ask them to thank Cindy?

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50 cents is for the median earner

Maybe if you're in the top 20% you can aspire to $1 per day in a lux delux tax cut.

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50 cents is for the median earner

Maybe if you're in the top 20% you can aspire to $1 per day in a lux delux tax cut.

Who cares whether it is 50c or $50?

It is all about the government taxing less - not like Cindy with her continuous tax increases and wasteful spending policies.

Tax, borrow & spend recklessly = Labour.

Go back to omicron deaths - you contacted the families of the dead yet and ask them to thank labour?

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Cindy's ex-partner NZ First smells blood in Labour's pro-crime & pro-gangs policies : Will be vote winning topic for NZF in 2023.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/shane-...QJFWZ7A3OCYMY/

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It is inevitable that lawyers will complain and point to the Bill of Rights. They need to remember rights require people to observe and respect duties. The only obligations organised crime recognises are those to themselves.

The Government has to commit to beating down gang offences, treating them as
organised crime.

No more tokenism and Māori titles such as Operation Tauwhiro, another word for social worker, but misrepresenting run-of-the-mill policing as some far-reaching anti-gang initiative.

More of the paddy wagon and less of the de-colonisation bandwagon.