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I think this is an excellent policy, and a long time coming. This is done overseas with good effect. While I don’t think it’s a magic bullet, it is definitely a step in the right direction.
Let’s look on the bright side. The people voted this way (quite significantly) so they must be seeing something positive there. I already know all the downsides so let’s discuss the upsides.
This would be amazing for anyone heading out to the bays or Wellington Airport, no intersections or lights to worry about, and it would make life so much easier for the CBD as well, not having so much through traffic in the CBD.
I’m curious to know what others think of this....
Why would you want sickness to spread at schools? This will get kids sick, it will get their teachers sick, kids will take it home to parents and get them sick. What’s the impact to education but also to the wider workforce and productivity?
Another day, another round of vindictive and regressive policy from this government....
Gap between left and right blocks has opened up, but NZ first seems likely to make it to parliament, which could make coalition negotiations interesting....
Absolutely great read from Bernard Hickey on Hipkins’ wealth tax announcement and the treasury report released yesterday:...
This is a summary of the Future for Local Government report - He piki tūranga, he piki kōtuku....
National campaigned on a proposal to adjust the existing tax thresholds, but as part of coalition negotiations with ACT last year, it agreed to consider whether the “concepts” of ACT’s tax policy could be incorporated “subject to no earner being worse off than they would be under National’s plan”....
National’s unaffordable tax cuts to be funded by… (checks notes) …giving more people lung cancer.
Some of us weren’t far off with the gambling levy, being an online service after all....
A very long and very qualified list of people who think this is a bad idea....
Usually their hot topics are bitching about housing and simping for TOP but these days I’ve noticed a lot more posts to the extent of “labour sucks and now I have no choice but to vote for national >:(”. Unsure if this reflects a general change in sentiment or if certain parties are spending their excess donations on...
Get ready for a GST rise
News stories don’t just pre-exist somewhere out there, walking around intact and whole, waiting for an equal chance to step through the door of a media outlet and into the public arena....
Really solid call, and timely comments about the divisive politics being imported from America at the moment.
The Greens are looking to introduce changes to the rental market to “give everyone in New Zealand a healthy home to live in”.
In Parliament last Wednesday, Te Tai Tokerau MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi said the government “will not waver in its mission to exterminate Māori”....
I don’t know a single person voting Nats but my gut feeling is they will get it. And likely not by a huge margin, meaning Nat-Act govt likely....
Why are the greens like this? How is being prepared to defend ourselves and help our allies “a concern”?
They knew what the true cost would be and hid it.
