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Simpleton1
Simpleton1
14 days ago

Something is be eclipsed by that camera in the bottom picture.

“Total Eclipse of the Heart” (Turn around)
https://youtu.be/lcOxhH8N3Bo
6 min 33 secs :

A good morning to all, not only as the sunrise, 7:07 am but also the moonrise of a waxing crescent at 7:49 am.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Editor
14 days ago

Just as well he fell in the water or there would have been an explosion.

Mike Hunty
Reply to  Sooty
14 days ago

testing

Starving Artist
Starving Artist
Reply to  Mike Hunty
14 days ago

Tell us more….

Tarquin
14 days ago

Morning all, only another 80 something days of hearing how terrible our government is from the MSM. Isn’t it lovely to have an honest media who aren’t at all partisan? If things keep going the way they are I’m expecting a story about how Hipkins walks on water to keep fit and how lovely and Jacinda like the TOP leader is. I so hope the left get cleaned up at the election and then the new government’s first job will be to defund the media and flogging off TVNZ and red radio. Can’t wait.

rightoverlabour
Reply to  Tarquin
14 days ago

If Hipkins walks on water, its proof that water does not wish to be contaminated.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  rightoverlabour
14 days ago

The water doesn’t have a choice when he’s in the shower,
Unless it strangles the shit out of him!

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Tarquin
14 days ago

the only way the media will get dealt to properly is if michael laws gets the broadcasting portfolio.
nats will dither around and do nothing, act will tinker and cut a lil with a pocket knife pretending to be tough but laws will go straight for an axe or chainsaw.

fuck the scum media

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Dougal10
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
14 days ago

Winston joined and anointed jacinda and claimed democracy had changed , laws may want to do stuff but history shows he wont . He is a member of one of the worst regional councils in nz and it is still getting worse .

wiseowl
Reply to  Dougal10
14 days ago

Had a lot to do with ML years ago and frankly he never understood regional councils roles functions .He is brilliant in many areas but he is not a practical person and has no affinity with the land.
Local Government has many issues but this forced amalgamation move is going to lead to a worse situation and look at what the South Island tribe are advocating now.
This will be repeated around the country as the elite see an opportunity to have total control of local government.
See also the moves in Hastings to muscle in before making a bigger move.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Dougal10
14 days ago

so you dont know why laws joined the regional council?
hes been pretty open about it and the fact its a fucking cot case.

winston and shane are always under attack from our scum media, im pretty sure theyd love nothing more then an attack dog to have a go at them esp when winston can step back and not take the hit full on… similar to letting casey costello take all the hits from the media and anti tobbacco folk.

the biggest hurdle imo will be the useless fucking nats agreeing to give someone ruthless like laws the broadcasting portfolio

Dougal10
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
14 days ago

Luxon already took broadcasting off someone who was going to shake it up and gave it to a wally , laws has been orc regional council for a long time and has proved hes a talk and no action guy, and he really only got on orc to try to stop high country tussock burning where he could see and smell it.

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I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Dougal10
14 days ago

bwahahaha youre just yet another dumb fuck that thinks a lone councillor can change anything they want.

and no, his number one objective was/is to impede the stupidity, question it and make the public aware of it.
he knows hes pushing shit uphill on his own but its better that than every single councillor being a yes man and allowing it to happen without scrutiny.

Dougal10
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
14 days ago

Lol

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
14 days ago

No, the entire print, radio, tv, internet laws!

Starving Artist
Starving Artist
14 days ago

Good morning. It’s raining. And – from the what could possibly go wrong department:

https://waikanaewatch.org/2026/08/14/scientists-have-created-the-first-functioning-viruses-designed-by-ai/

DylanHunt
Reply to  Starving Artist
14 days ago

Correction. It’s not the first.

nasska
Reply to  Editor
14 days ago

The undead can only die if a white oak stake is driven through their hearts.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Editor
14 days ago

If only!

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
14 days ago

Enervating the WNBA Women’s National Basketball Association in batting an eyelash or 2

uh….
https://youtu.be/lcOxhH8N3Bo
2 mins 21 secs : Aug 11, 2026 : John Talks 2

That has been what so much of “them” officialdom want, well it is being dished out.

Also picked up & ran by :—–

Lefties Losing It: CNN accused of bigotry after axing trans NBA interview
https://youtu.be/EKNW1u3dh54
11 minutes 19 secs : Aug 13, 2026 : News24 : Rita Panahi.

News24 host Rita Panahi has exposed CNN’s hypocrisy after they axed an interview with Royce White.

Rita does show how deep & infiltrated in so many different ways that this is so deep rooted & pushed to be accepted.

New Zealand can not be too far behind this when considering the Posie Parker’s opposition’s performance & the authorities acceptance of it.

Then NZ officially supporting the weight-lifter representative at the 2020 Olympic Games as the “new normal”, of a cursed culture of manaaki (inclusion and respect) sort of a world first, & punching above our weight.

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Saggy
14 days ago

Morning Troopers,

Well, this should brighten up your day. Go and plug your figures into the TOP Land Tax Calculater.

Tax Reset Calculator 2026 – Opportunity Party

They are certifiably nuts.

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Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Saggy
14 days ago

It has never been true that setting rents, is entirely a cost plus business.

It is a property business, & the 3 things that count is “locality, locality, locality” and markets, of supply (how many houses) & demand are effected by that.
Like nearby high paying offices, or industries, access to transport,

Like would one buy a section where the rate taxes are higher than what it sold at auction as that does happen!
Nor do others want to rent there, but the authorities demand their rate tax.

In other localities, often all jollied along by the media, the astromical price, but is backed by investors & developers.

The land of ‘clover & honey’, is for everyone, and so for certain it will change.
However one must also realize there can be major vagaries in the market, like what is the flavour of the month? like converting to kiwifruit from dairy farms, which pushes every ones block of land in value, but then see how the flavour has in some cases been reconverted back.
The value of Net Zero Carbon in pine forestry, or native or whatever for the honey bees.

I doubt very much that will lead to less regulation, but the unaccountable authorities further their rule in judicial precedents.

Accountants, Valuers, Lawyers, Enviromental Courts etc… will definetly soak up the public servants plus so many university trained graduates, to earn very nice salaries above the UBI.
A class of their own to weave that into their gold.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Saggy
14 days ago

id be 10.8k better off, whats your point?

the ubi offsets much of the tax, it slams retirees and those who earn big bux and own expensive properties.
itll probs also slam renters and bene bros as its supposed to replace the bene and their rent will go up massively and chew up most if not all of their ubi 🤣 let the turkeys vote for xmas.

then the more hilarious thing is many of the butthurt top voters will end up with fuck all inheritance when their parents die and house sale mainly goes back to the govt.

LVT/georgism would be a fucking great way to fairly tax everyone BUT only if it replaced most other taxes… top want this as yet another tax.

heres how lvt/georgism should work https://youtu.be/smi_iIoKybg?si=isz317P8y0a8xwor

its quite an interesting concept and it smashes speculation/landbanking and slumlords while rewarding development and good landlords, it would also incentivise building whats actually wanted and needed not just whats profitable for developers… it could also extend to resources aswell, even water etc as it would fairly tax the private profits made from public resources. think irrigation and hydro generation, and the way it works its impossible to hike prices to compensate. its not excessive and infact very fair.

rightoverlabour
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
14 days ago

I’d be $18,000 better off. Hmmm. But there stupid calculator doesnt allow for a combination of rural and urban land where you own two properties. I might email them…..

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  rightoverlabour
14 days ago

if the other property is a rental it wont matter, pass that shit on to the tennant.
if its a batch then youll take it up the arse.

your married arent ya? just use calculator single/own and do one property you and income and the other wifey and her income

rightoverlabour
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
14 days ago

Yes, married,(when not fucking retarded). But thats a good idea. Thanks.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  rightoverlabour
14 days ago

What about more than two properties, do you put them in the kids names?

rightoverlabour
Reply to  rightoverlabour
14 days ago

no email address to contact them on that website from what I can see .Anyway I doubt they have the same views on climate change and vaccines so I’ll take the $18,000 hit and vote accordingly.

nasska
Reply to  rightoverlabour
14 days ago

If you want to drive hole through the proposal then Damien Grant has a head start on you. I doubt that anyone from TOP can use a calculator.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361001544/damien-grant-maths-behind-tops-biggest-promise-falls-apart

Starving Artist
Starving Artist
Reply to  nasska
14 days ago

The people likely to vote for TOP believe math is racist, calculators are colonialism, and ”the rich” – anyone who owns property, which they don’t – should be taxed until they are poor. The deliberate destruction of personal wealth is classic Marxism.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Starving Artist
14 days ago

Another of labors policies!

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  nasska
14 days ago

When have voters concerned themselves on just “How Big is Their Hole” as we can see an activist pushing for it here. 🤣

At least it gets one to look further, to consider more things, in our “land of milk & honey” & who is missing out in the ongoing governmental-pyramid-ponzi-schemes.

Karl Marx; fine tuned by Lenin:—-
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_each_according_to_his_ability,_to_each_according_to_his_needs

…. an arrangement will be made possible by the abundance of goods and services that a developed communist system will be capable to produce;
the idea is that, with the full development of socialism and unfettered productive forces, there will be enough to satisfy everyone’s needs. …

So plenty of land to have taxes collected from, to fulfill all our needs.

Never mind nasska, change buses & up the tax %
As the first goal is to get the system in place.

nasska
Reply to  Simpleton1
14 days ago

…..”the first goal is to get the system in place”…..

True. They only have to convince 51% of the sheep that they’ll be better off. It will be those who went to school to eat their lunch whose votes will get the proposal over the line.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  rightoverlabour
14 days ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣 yea cuz theyre campaigning on vax mandates.
youre just as FITH as they are

Upyou2
Upyou2
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
14 days ago

I can see why your Misses can’t wait to see the back of you. It’s a wonder you’ve lasted this long.

rightoverlabour
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
14 days ago

No so much campaining on it, but their attitude will give some idea of how intelligent or not thay are. Although there are few that actually do understand the science of this “vaccine” Read this: open.substack.com/pub/petermcculloughmd/p/breaking-study-spike-protein-drives?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1119676&post_id=211072400&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=127oyu&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo2NDE4NDM1OCwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjExMDcyNDAwLCJpYXQiOjE3ODY2NDcyNDUsImV4cCI6MTc4OTIzOTI0NSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTExMTk2NzYiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.yp_9Q2XmZLR3w0dyb3WxjKVCyA8vvM52-TCiKQQFzbQ

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  rightoverlabour
14 days ago

i think you need a time machine and go back to the 2020 election. even by 2023 election no one really gave a fuck anymore and it wasnt an election issue.

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  rightoverlabour
14 days ago

I have tried, made some adjustments rol but your original will not go through & seems to feed to
This site can’t provide a secure connectionhttp://www.open.substack.com uses an unsupported protocol.
https://www.open.substack.com/pub/petermcculloughmd/p/breaking-study-spike-protein-drives

In the mean time this seems to summarize what you wanted to show?

 ….. persistence.
Spike or spike-related material has been detected years after vaccination. ….

…. potential countermeasures aimed at directly degrading persistent spike and restoring molecular stability. …..
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-study-spike-protein-drives

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BertP
BertP
Reply to  Saggy
14 days ago

Their calculator says the wife and I will have to pay $3850 land tax despite being 79 years old and on rural property. This would be in addition to the local rates bill.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  BertP
14 days ago

and as a couple your 44k of super will be replaced with just under 40k of ubi.

thats why some say top stands for Tax Old People

Curious
Reply to  Saggy
14 days ago

I have never understood how they can think that these calculators are going to be anywhere near accurate. As soon as the policy is implemented land values will fall as ll revenue collected. Unicorn thinking.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Curious
14 days ago

house prices will fall, land values probably wont. only way land price will fall is if more land is opened up and the market flooded

Curious
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
14 days ago

It is the land values that will fall. There will be people that can’t afford the land tax will sell and demand will fall due to the tax. The deferral of the payment may help somewhat but overall I would expect selling pressure and lower demand will significantly drop prices. That’s my view.

Viking
Reply to  Curious
14 days ago

Have to have a buyer to sell to. Who is going to buy with that shit hanging over their head?
totllay stupoid idea. Stop needing thetax is the way.

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Curious
14 days ago

Yes the land values will probably fall, but it is set up so another formula to base the land value tax will come into play, like what can be assessed to be charged as rental, & from that formula to show what the “land tax” can be charged.

I have forgotten what it was called, the new is or is it old way of valuation, but with the kindly socialist government it will not be less tax to be collected.

Then as of now, are ones so stupid not to see that there will be no reduction on water rates, to be clipped by iwi, and then the sewerage rate, again to be clipped for the sake of the enviroment, etc.. which if working well would be valued & incorporated into the sense of land value.

Viking
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
14 days ago

Or no one wants a house. Then it will be gulags in Northland or Campbell Island.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Viking
14 days ago

everyone wants a house. only a few thousand choose a bridge or shop doorway to live under.
and even then most there want a house but choose to spend money on drugs etc vs rent

Viking
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
14 days ago

there is a difference between wants and the ability to buy, no matter what the price is, and there are people who don’t “want”a house but just want reasonable accommodation that they don’t own.

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Curious
14 days ago

To many years ago when reading about this, it will become who does the valuing, and sort of that will change to a different formula to take in account things like rental value.

The real concept is to get banking in part, out of the system, and replace it with what can be charged, like how interest is calculated on mortgage.

The land value tax may seem to start low, but the intent is it should be up to what one would pay if they had to pay interest to a bank on the total purchase price “mortgage”.

That is why another curly one is that one should pay income tax on the value of your home, as if your were paying a full rental: even if 100% paid off.
After all, the wealthy one is skipping that income, not having it included.
Where it is taxed as a ‘struggling’ tenant has to in paying rent.

I know it is getting all technical finance tax, etc. but the intention is to turn everything over, just like “what is a woman?” has done, which was ratified by NZ.

All the Hegelian dialectics, words, phrases, are done, so it is difficult ot focus & fight back as we prove to be ignorant in part.
That sets the stage of proving we will pretty much accept it l as inevitable.
Just look how far they have progressed this century.

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Odakyu-sen
Reply to  Saggy
14 days ago

I trust that TOP will tax Maori tribal land. Those gorse farms need to be put to better use!

nasska
Reply to  Odakyu-sen
14 days ago

Tax! Maori! You should be doing stand up. From Google:

“Designed with tax deferral options or concessions for “land rich, cash poor” groups such as eligible retirees and farmers, as well as exemptions for specific types of land like conservation and communally owned Māori land.”

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Odakyu-sen
14 days ago

yep it probs will but itll get deferred…. and never paid cuz the way the ownership is setup.

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Odakyu-sen
14 days ago

Trust, is only gained, like a noisy bus, but when travelled so far, then to hop off when it suits.

Erdogan, “Democracy is like a tram. You ride it until you arrive at your destination, then you step off.”

With the depth in Green, TOP, Labour & Te Partly, policies, can one really believe that will be acceptable?
It will be only on their terms, like the Raglan Golf course. Trust us

So with one’s house, land “You will have nothing & be happy”.
The happiness of being altogether.
Trust us in this very caring community of just having one tax.

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waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  Simpleton1
14 days ago

Why is being called a communist acceptable while being called a n*zi is not?

There is no photographic evidence of communist atrocities

rightoverlabour
Reply to  waikatogirl
14 days ago

Absolutely none, except for

The Katyn Massacre (1940)
The Cambodian Genocide / Tuol Sleng (S-21) Prison (1975–1979)
The Soviet Gulag and Secret Police Repressions
The Holodomor (1932–1933)

As you say, none….

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  rightoverlabour
14 days ago

Rol, I have to admit I got that quote about lack of photographic history from this guy. He also says schools have done their expected job of keeping students ignorant of socialism.

He also says everyone wants free stuff but nobody wants to contribute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iYV_jQ4x_s
Communism For Dummies | Bill Whittle #498 | The Way I Heard It
Mike Rowe

A few days ago, I wandered into a conversation about communism. Thousands of comments later, it became clear to me that a surprising number of people have very different ideas about what that word means, what socialism promises, and what history has to say about both. So, I called my old friend Bill Whittle. …

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Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Saggy
14 days ago

The land tax will go fill the large holes in the budget, so there will be no worries in that part. After all that is a problem that is stifling the paradise of NZ. So that Problem can be solved.

Then there are the policies to attract the voters to TOP as linked to in this mention of the changes, Indigenous, constitutionally, social justice & of course environmentally & green, which will all be so easily financed, only by the wealthy, because they own land.
https://ysb.co.nz/have-your-say-842/#comment-486049

but even more so the policies that will tie in with the Greens as mentioned here and with a link to Ani OBrien’s write up of the Greens policies.
https://ysb.co.nz/have-your-say-842/#comment-486042

After all Hipkins, Labour Party, will gain a lot, to gain a few gravy troughs, Te Partly will all float along with that tax, with some kindly cultural exemptions.

Perhaps we need to know more of what we are up against, to understand the “kind” intentions, that seems to win hearts & minds with a pot of gold, largesse, not to far off.

Then to show consequences, not fear mongering, but to raise questions, of is that the limit?. Does that really add up, or subtract?

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I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Editor
14 days ago

gst has exemptions, just not many and theres no grey area.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Editor
14 days ago

.999 fine gold. exports, duty free, selling a business as going concern, certain property deals between gst registered parties eg farms

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Tarquin
Reply to  Saggy
14 days ago

Something definitely doesn’t add up. Being self employed my salary is as low as I can get away with but still quite high and they reckon I’ll be twelve grand better off! Hopefully the house won’t go up or I’ll be right up the creek. The scary part is how are they really going to finance this?

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Tarquin
14 days ago

its not on your house/improved value. its the tax on the land the house sits on.
eg. a 1.5mil taxable land value would probs be a 3-4mil property.

if you lot are gunna criticise it at least understand it properly first so you dont look like dumb fucks who got it wrong from the start.
otherwise youre no better off then some dumb leftard parroting a greens tiktok thats got it wrong 🙂

the funniest part of tops idea is it slashes thousands public sector jobs which is the sound of crickets chirping in the media.
they also neglect to tell renters how much of their ubi will get swallowed up by rising rents which their calculator fails to account for. so if youre renting and it says 12k better off then youre really probably only 2k better off or even worse off if your land value is pricey.
every 500k land value =7.5k tax, landlords will recover that via hiked rent… the coalition need to ram home that the average rent in x city will rise x amount under top. it will vary lots depending on location and average values.
nationally just working off google numbers it would on average increase rents 144pw but realistically its probs auckland 280pw and the likes of southland 60pw

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Viking
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
14 days ago

every 500k land value =7.5k tax, landlords will recover that via hiked rent…

That communist lot wil stop that happening. They don’t value landlords and would run them to a situation where the tax owing was way more than the land value and then take the property.
Real slimy communism.

Curious
Reply to  Viking
14 days ago

Actually 500k would be $8750 not $7500.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Viking
14 days ago

and we have another retard just speculating and not understanding stuff. yup if we call it a name its not its totally gunna fix it////
if they done as you falsely claim then nz banking would collapse and a lvt/ubi is the least of our worries.

go join tarquin in his cry closet, ROL will join you soon for a circle jerk. ill decide later what one of you gets the dumbest of dumbfucks award, its a close call between you and tarquin.

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Saggy
Reply to  Viking
14 days ago

Any Auckland property would have land value of $500K. Good luck whacking your rent up $150 per week.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Saggy
14 days ago

ffs another clown, do you not get it? 150buxpw is fuck all when each adult over 18 gets dished out 370pw… a family of 15 islanders crammed in a home/garage with a couple of 18+kids and some grandparents will be fucking raking that shit in, goldmine really so they wont give a fuck if rent goes up 500bux.

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Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
14 days ago

We know that you will call it legal, like your pigs in a pigsty.
😏

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Simpleton1
14 days ago

id never be so cruel to my pigs. they live in luxury.

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
14 days ago

So no leaks, and no mould.

That is what a real true slum landlord would say.
“Luxury”
but would not even spend a night there themselves.
🐖 🐖 🐖
🏚
A one room hovel where they all have to crowd together just to keep warm, is the real truth.
⛈🌪❄💧

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nasska
Reply to  Simpleton1
14 days ago

Warming themselves over the heat of a melting ice cube.

Welcome to the wretched life of a NZ renter.

Viking
Reply to  nasska
14 days ago

I must institute that, seems like a good idea. Cut the heating bill down.

nasska
Reply to  Viking
14 days ago

Sniff. 🙂

Tarquin
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
14 days ago

So, I’m a dumb fuck who doesn’t understand? I live cliff top waterfront in a very desirable area. My land value is very very high and the house is an old bach. I doubt you could comprehend the value of my property, but it is far far higher than the improvement value. I know exactly how things work and how much this policy would cost me.

Saggy
Reply to  Tarquin
14 days ago

Mrs Saggy works full time. According to the TOP calculator, pretty much her entire salary would be consumed on the ADDITIONAL TAX WE’D HAVE TO PAY.

And I don’t consider myself a dumb fuck, thanks SB.

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I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Saggy
14 days ago

then you must be rich pricks on very high wages and live in a very ponsy area, congrats youre in top 15% of kiwis so you can afford it 🙂
now dont forget greens wealth tax!!!

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Tarquin
14 days ago

then youre a dumb fuck that cant use their calculator or entered your figures wrong.
i take it you have a wife/partner? at 1.75% (i thought it was 1.5%, got that wrong) tax it takes a fair bit of land value to chew up 40k of ubi. 50k income will be 14k income tax… at 50k household income you would need 2.9mil land value to consume all the ubi and be no better off.

Curious
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
14 days ago

You are forgetting that tax rates on income over the UBI are also higher 33% flat rate on all earned income I believe.

nasska
Reply to  Curious
14 days ago

28% to $50K

34% to $200K

39% on $200K+

https://cdn.opportunity.org.nz/documents/policy/tax-reset-policy.pdf (section 1.2)

Curious
Reply to  nasska
14 days ago

So much for asking AI.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Editor
14 days ago

its all feels based, facts and proper costings are irrelevant.
you old folk need to get with the times, young voters dont do any research/fact checking they just go with what the cool vibe tiktoks or clickbait headlines tell them to do.

thats where nats/act/nzf go wrong with the young vote, they try explaining shit but the young voters check out after 20-30seconds plus they want the payoff now (ubi) and not want to wait 10yrs for maybe, possibly something working and their lives are better off for it.

Tarquin
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
14 days ago

I’ll pass your stunning financial advice on to my accountant, even someone that boring will find it funny.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Tarquin
14 days ago

get a better accountant then.
learn to read while youre at it too 🙂

Tarquin
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
14 days ago

Better yet take your banjo and fuck off.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Tarquin
14 days ago

Looks like an old van, if you get in early before the price rise!

Saggy
Reply to  Tarquin
14 days ago

I’ve always wondered why a banjo only has 5 strings when the average player has 13 fingers.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Saggy
14 days ago

gotta have something to scratch our balls with and pluck the 6th banjo string with.

The Ancient Hooligan
Reply to  Saggy
14 days ago

And people will Vote for these Drongos. Spare me!

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Editor
14 days ago

Remember the pollie mantra, for thee, not for me!

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Editor
14 days ago

makng voters think about tax

Pretty much so long as we “think” we are not paying too much.

Not to question what the tax money is spent on, but that many others can pay & should pay more, as they benefit from sunshine & rain on their land.

What right have the ones who pay more; to question where it is spent as the others that receive it, deserve it all.?

…. A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.

From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship. ……
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fraser_Tytler,_Lord_Woodhouselee

Just as Karl Marx & then with Lenins adjustment told of the paradise to come for all.

Muldoon knew that too, bringing in his sweeping over 60’s pension.
Yet Muldoon was able to get many of the “think big” projects underway & completed.

Though to be fair, one would have to wonder just who, & how that Labour Pension Funds would have been used? as the controls seem to lean to be able to aid Government projects.

Another funny thing is that some may recall when local bodies had a scheme, government guaranteed borrowings as a loan, certain lump sum sizes, not too bad, and with certain long term investments like 2 ,3, 5 or more year terms for building water works, sewerage systems etc.. with a reasonable attractive rate of interest locked in.
Did inflation kill it? Why was it stopped?

Last edited 14 days ago by Simpleton1
Dougal10
Reply to  Editor
14 days ago

Top will find that councils are already taking as much land tax that a person can bear . The only way to fix this will be for central govt to take the land tax money and allow the councils to run a poll tax system . Dig deep into tops history and you will find this kind of thinking .

Viking
Reply to  Dougal10
14 days ago

As ACT have just published with the bed tax.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Viking
14 days ago

i can see the councils having a hissy fit over only getting $1, the flood of mayor and ceo tears is gunna overwhelm their stormwater systems… the jaffa clown brown wants 10bux dosent he? id say qtown and most other councils would much rather the 10bux too.
personally id rather a bed tax/levy paid for by visitors vs just handing them money with no guarantee of increased revenue for anyone. they need to smash airbnb and freedom campers aswell (charge the rental agencies?) aswell.
if 10bux pp extra per night is too much then theyre low value visitors that are best to fuck off and stay at home.

nasska
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
14 days ago

…..”they need to smash airbnb and freedom campers aswell”…..

No argument from me. Wringing a few shekels out of the tight arsed, soap dodging, two minute noodle, free shitting Poms in their Britz & Jucy minivans would be a worthwhile challenge.

nasska
Reply to  Editor
14 days ago

If they start taxing spare beds then Chez Nasska will become a one bedroom, two office dwelling.

Tarquin
14 days ago

I was watching Luxon on the news last night doing the meet and greet with the head bloke from Vietnam. All went well and they were having meetings about increasing trade and ways we could help each other. I’ve never rated Luxon, but to be able to do this sort of thing after just spending 3 hours fighting for his career is impressive. He didn’t look stressed, was happy chatting away and doing all the right things. Is he really that bad or do we just see what the msm want us to see?

Starving Artist
Starving Artist
Reply to  Tarquin
14 days ago

He is really that bad. For further details, see net zero and special privileges for part Maoris.

rightoverlabour
Reply to  Tarquin
14 days ago

I agree. I think he is a decent bloke. Maybe not the best leader, or most charasmatic, but compared to Hipkins, who lies, obsfucates and is basically stupid, – no contest.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  rightoverlabour
14 days ago

Or he’s a raging narcissist.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Tarquin
14 days ago

if only he was as ballsy and feisty of a leader in public as he is behind closed doors in caucus.
hes done it twice in a few months and “won”, a weak leader cant do that ffs but why the fuck is he such a coward in public and no balls to be bold? ok maybe the mmp thing is a bit of that, to be fair its a valid opinion but he got the time and place wrong plus his reasoning and calling coalition partners numpties is what caused the trouble for him.

i fully agreed with his adult/children comment, its probs something seymour would also agree with but not say aloud. luxon was right to pretty much say stand on your own feet and stop asking daddy govt for handouts etc.

50% is media 50% is luxon unable to connect and communicate effectively

Viking
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
14 days ago

The point really was that these people and hundreds of others are and have been doing that but it doesn’t change things for them
We have been doing that, and I can tell ya its bloody hard graft.

The big discussion that the pollies all ignore is the unemployment rate for young people. 75000 of them, our future workers dumped in a pile of shit because!

Its a daily topic of discussion out there. And its easy to fix.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Viking
14 days ago

i see indias under 25s unemployment is through the roof…. so a shitload of them are gunna flood to nz arent they which will make our youth unemployment even worse.

and no i dont think its easy to fix, theres some easy steps to take to improve things but thats far from fixing it.

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Editor
14 days ago

Lenin would be proud of those sycophants.

Money to cut off, the Net Zero Carbon Emission Taxes, though that is deep with in the government legislation.

Cash, so the system can not easily figure the money flows.
I know not always easy.

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
14 days ago

Just to report, I had an overseas call, an 006 127 201 2760 number asking me something whatever. Not too badly accented.

They defined themselves as “Free Food Solutions” blah blah,

I acted old, half cut, stating that I had plenty of food in the fridge, & the deepfreeze, where upon they just hung-up.

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Editor
14 days ago

Sometimes, sometimes. 😁
I did not do the trans-gender; but butt wait until next time.

Tarquin
Reply to  Simpleton1
14 days ago

Nothing wrong with being old and half cut.

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Editor
14 days ago

I have a number of people from overseas making contact, but that is to do with me personally or business.

The part that annoys me, is she named me, so they have a match to my phone number & name, even if I was vague, as I often counter with “which one” & questioning who they were. Now will add, are they wanting to speak to Junior or Senior.
Probably takes it now as confirmed.

It seems 006 could be an exit number from Europe or NZ.
So more likely some one in NZ?

When sometimes I have to ring anyone connected to government, or a hidden authority,while staying polite, so they can not just hang up on me.
While I rake them over the coals when they want to suppposedly confirm my identity, that could prove to be very costly to them as I demand a guarantee of security, if they are hacked. putting it to them; they themselves can in a number of way easily prove that I am bona-fide.

If they have any brains, they can figure a way of something the agency may know, that I may confirm or deny.
Or get some supervisor or higher paygrade to get whatever sorted, while telling them that any further delays are purposefully wasting my time.

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nasska
14 days ago

ROL & any other readers who recognise the damage the Podium of Truth did to Kiwis’ trust in the medical establishment will understand what the profession call “massive increase in misinformation since pandemic”.
Many people are highly sceptical after the doctors mass capitulation to the UN & WEF demands for mass vaccination during the Covid scam & as https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/medical-misinformation-girl-needed-emergency-surgery-after-parents-fail-to-give-antibiotics/PG6JOTC7YJBLJPRS5AOAC62IDE/ notes it nearly cost a youngster her life. A relatively minor infection required surgical intervention after her parents discarded the antibiotics prescribed.

#. “They very much didn’t trust doctors, they didn’t trust politicians, they didn’t trust any institutions.”

Thanks Cindy. Thanks St Ash. /// I hope the backhander was worth it.

Sooty
Sooty
14 days ago

Is Radio NZ going to arse that cunt Camp bell in a cost saving exercise at last?

Starving Artist
Starving Artist
14 days ago

Say what you like about the Chinese communist party, they know how to deal with Islam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsW2XNUnFUY

Cyberpunk Dingo is an ex-muslim who wears the strange mask so the religion of pieces can’t identify and kill him.

Sooty
Sooty
14 days ago

Pork Ingham admits in the corners inquest that he was a great big lying tit.
What can you trust from him.
Certainly throws the justice system under the bus, didn’t he!!!

nasska
Reply to  Sooty
14 days ago

Having that piece of shit free & walking amongst us is the price we pay for accepting Blackstone’s ratio.

“It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer”.

On past performances by NZs highest courts (eg Thomas, Dougherty, Pora, Ellis) we shouldn’t be in much of a rush to tighten things up.

Viking
Reply to  Editor
14 days ago

Sooner the better. They have known it’s been coming for the last 2 years. Hope Trump tells them all to sling their hook and fuck off to Geneva or some such other place.

Make a nice hotel.
Jobs for the boys.

nasska
Reply to  Editor
14 days ago

The words of Oliver Cromwell can again be recycled. In 1653 he said:

“It is not fit that you should sit here any longer. You have sat here too long for any good you have been doing lately … In the name of God go.“

Die UN. Just die!

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  nasska
14 days ago

Couldn’t sum up the preferred demise of the communist UN any better than your quote from Cromwell.

All the sweeter that Mamdani won’t benefit from the $USdollars they generate meeting in NYC.

Last edited 14 days ago by waikatogirl
Viking
Reply to  waikatogirl
14 days ago

He will want the building for his slums.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Viking
14 days ago

Ya, hu. That will make luuvies cry!
May it give the old bat a heartattack!!!

Viking
14 days ago

National Party pledges new restrictions on data centres, Queenstown gondola funding, clearer river gravel rules in South Island plan.

National has rolled out its plan for the South Island, including funding for Queenstown’s gondola, a new policy statement on mining, and more restrictive power rules for data centres.
Released on Friday in Christchurch, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said there was “a lot going well in the south, but there’s more we can do to unlock its full potential.”
Infrastructure
The plan included $50 million investment in the shared road and rail connections for the Rolleston intermodal freight hub, ensuring the Gondola in Queenstown could access funding in the national land transport fund and $25m to make a roading area near the Five Mile roundabout in Queenstown four lanes.
“Queenstown is also one of the fastest-growing parts of the country and SH6 and 6A is its single most important piece of road,” its policy statement said.

https://www.interest.co.nz/public-policy/139817/national-party-pledges-new-restrictions-data-centres-queenstown-gondola

bobthebldr
bobthebldr
Reply to  Editor
14 days ago

Total eclipse of the brain, this one.

Last edited 14 days ago by bobthebldr
I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Editor
14 days ago

shes trying to chanel her inner luxon, another few years of receding hairline and she be fully bald… it never used to be that bad was it?

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
14 days ago

Which way should she do the comb over?

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