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"All Labour has done is chosen a group of people that can be marginalised and be taxed without - they hope - fear of electoral retribution."
#MattBall, NZ Property Investors Federation, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=72dfab42-b0de-46f3-9958-29494bf53211
You mean Māori? Beneficiaries? Women getting pay equity? Unionised workers? Trans people? Oops, sorry, he's taking about *Labour* there. My bad.
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Funny he how Matt Ball seems unconcerned by all the ways NatACT First has taken money out of the pockets of small groups of marginalised people, who really cant afford it during a cost of living crisis. Giving it to the very landlords he wants us to feel sorry for.
I'd call him a fucking reptile, but that's unfair to reptiles. Whose reputation as remorseless biological machines preying on the weak has bern bebunked by observational zoology. Unlike Matt Ball's, which seems bang on.
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"We need to stop blaming sectors of society for our problems, and selling the snake oil solution that if we pull them down a bit we'll all be better off."
#DavidSeymour, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=72dfab42-b0de-46f3-9958-29494bf53211
Totally agree Rimmer, how about you take your own advice and stop doing that with Māori?
There is only one minority in this country who actually deserve to be targeted politically, and to have some of their ill-gottens gain reclaimed by the public; property investors.
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People who make millions of dollars playing games of monopoly with our building supply. Who create nothing. Who contribute nothing to the economy. Nothing that is, except higher house prices, higher rents, and higher premises costs for businesses, which they have no choice but to pass on to customers.
How much of the $8 it costs to buy a coffee now goes to the cafés landlord? Whose capital value goes up the more they hike the rent. All of which becomes untaxed income if they sell.
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@strypey Commercial rents in Auckland suburbs are horrendous. For modest premises 74,000 pa minimum in our local shops.
@CarolynStirling
> For modest premises 74,000 pa minimum in our local shops
Wow. That's almost $1500 a week, and that's the cheap end of business rentals? Say you're a cafe paying that, open 6 days a week, 8 hours a week. If you sell a coffee every 2 minutes, on average, that's just shy of 1500 coffees.
So the landlord more or less gets a dollar out of every coffee you sell. That's if your cafe has "modest" premises.
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