Politics 🗳️ NZ Politics

[defensivebomb]

If you take out the govt subsidy, then you are just left with a copayment between an employer and employee to a quarantined account to be accessed upon turning 65

You may as well just negotiate with your employer when joining the “co-pay” into a managed investment fund, as there really is no upside for you personally to have the govt lock up your access to these funds

However, I look at it from the lens of - if it wasn’t there, I wouldn’t be saving for my retirement

 

[MaybeTop8]

Super is a scam. Subsidising rent seekers while punishing people when they need capital the most.

Jaysis you're out there frank

 

[MaybeTop8]

No surprises this government is deliberately underfunding core institutions


View: https://bsky.app/profile/nzheretic.bsky.social/post/3lrcfony6ok2u

 

[MaybeTop8]

No surprises this government is driving our young people out of the country


View: https://bsky.app/profile/bernardchickey.bsky.social/post/3lrcoumphws2k

 

[MaybeTop8]

And here's some much needed information on the author of the far right sponsored "unofficial" ardern biography. I'll expect the usual postings.

Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 (@tzemingdynasty.bsky.social)

"Author David Cohen has confirmed he recently entered a “commercial arrangement” with the Centrist website, which is also supporting a marketing campaign and website", hahahahah this is the guy who made up a conspiracy theory that I use a fake Chinese name & spread it through the media in the...

bsky.app

 

[defensivebomb]

No surprises this government is deliberately underfunding core institutions


View: https://bsky.app/profile/nzheretic.bsky.social/post/3lrcfony6ok2u

To be fair, Orr was hopeless. If you feel the economy is rooted, look no further than the man who, while inflation was out of control, was off lecturing the world’s reserve banks that he was a kauri tree, and then had the gall to say he couldn’t do his job with a smaller budget

NZs economy is better off without him

 

[juju]

I’m not a fan of any withdrawals personally

A withdrawal to buy a home just adds to demand, which, with a limited supply, results in a higher price

A withdrawal for genuine hardship or life threatening illness is another story

KiwiSaver is there for retirement. Allowing withdrawals for home ownership is just the government using a tool for super to fix a housing problem

First home ownership is a great initiative - especially when paired with the support previous government provided.
Incentivising home ownership and housing security is only a good thing given the way society is going.

Limiting KS to those two life milestones of first home ownership and retirement seems really solid policy I would think.

 

[MaybeTop8]

On Free Speech And Anti-Semitism

For the record: the haka in Parliament did not disrupt the taking of the first reading vote on The Treaty Principles Bill. It occurred after the votes from the other political parties had been cast and tallied, as the footage from Parliament clearly shows.

www.scoop.co.nz

 

[MaybeTop8]

Remarkable. Disturbing. This is the right. Sadly.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sol0Rx9CMB4

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

And here's some much needed information on the author of the far right sponsored "unofficial" ardern biography. I'll expect the usual postings.

Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 (@tzemingdynasty.bsky.social)

"Author David Cohen has confirmed he recently entered a “commercial arrangement” with the Centrist website, which is also supporting a marketing campaign and website", hahahahah this is the guy who made up a conspiracy theory that I use a fake Chinese name & spread it through the media in the...

bsky.app

Lots of posts about a biography no one cares about and isn’t even done yet. This must be a Sun Tzu's case of prentice attacking something you greatly fear…

Ardern was divisive, incompetent, a PR expert but not much else. She left us broke and with the worst recession in 30 years and in Labour ministers own words was unelectable in 2023.

Don’t need a book to tell us what we already know.

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

No surprises this government is deliberately underfunding core institutions

Core institutions are taking the piss. The govt is taking the advice of Treasury and INCREASING their funding by 21%, just not giving them the overfunding they want. Glad your not finance minister or we would be broke!

“The Reserve Banks…. Fulltime equivalent staff numbers increased from 255 in the 2017/18 year to 660 in January this year.

No, this isn’t a manufactured crisis, the reserve bank has been hopeless.

https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/reserve-bank-funding-reduction-agreed#:~:text=“The%20new%20agreement%20allocates%20the,for%20the%20current%20financial%20year.

 

[MrFrankWhite]

Irish civil unrest breaking news containment. What they don’t mention is civil unrest over immigration has been boiling over for months.

UK, Ireland, France, USA.

How riots erupted in Northern Ireland after an alleged sex assault

Masked rioters attacked police and set homes and cars alight on a second night of widespread civil disobedience in a Northern Irish town.

www.abc.net.au

 

[miket12]

Latest Taxpayer Union poll is good news for Labour who would have more seats in Parliament than National but the left parties would only have 60 seats compared to the right.

All this shows is that the next election will be really close.

 

[Worried2Death]

Poor old Scamtelle, better get grifting

Stuff: Latest breaking news | New Zealand

www.stuff.co.nz

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

Poor old Scamtelle, better get grifting

Stuff: Latest breaking news | New Zealand

www.stuff.co.nz

Why poor her? She’s already won a significant defamation settlement against the Herald and the same ‘expert’.

Its ironic when a misinformation expert has already settled with her for spreading misinformation about her

 

[Worried2Death]

Why poor her? She’s already won a significant defamation settlement against the Herald and the same ‘expert’.

Its ironic when a misinformation expert has already settled with her for spreading misinformation about her

That's what Putin wants you to think

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

That's what Putin wants you to think

The stuff article about a lawsuit against stuff didn’t tell you all those facts did they

 

[Worried2Death]

The stuff article about a lawsuit against stuff didn’t tell you all those facts did they

She's the NZ Tim Pool, probably end up being the Beehive media liaison.

 

[Worried2Death]

Chantelle went to Ukraine and got busted trying to pay people to talk shit for Putin. It's all adding up...
Wake up Wiz!


View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LKWYVwk-fRU

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

Chantelle went to Ukraine and got busted trying to pay people to talk shit for Putin. It's all adding up...
Wake up Wiz!


View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LKWYVwk-fRU

You follow her? Know all the gossip!

Never listened to her in my life.