Even when the money hasn't been spent yet?
Inflation didn't drop when the projects were cancelled?
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If there's one thing Kiwi's can't stand it's a hypercrit, and someone gouging the taxpayer & looks like we've got one for our new PM.
Chris Luxon's one of the wealthiest PM's ever, treating us taxpayers like an ATM Machine, quietly claiming $52,000 off the public purse to live in one of the 7 properties he owns without a mortgage, at the same time demanding the Public Service find cuts of up to 7.5% and criticising various organisations for treating the public like.... - "an ATM Machine" and when we have record numbers of families depending on Food Banks, teachers having to buy basics for their classrooms, 300 people to lose their jobs at Newshub etc.
As if that's not bad enough, Luxons the first PM to claim the allowance in 34 years.
He may be legally entitled to this money off the taxpayer, but when others are being required to make big sacrifices, what kind of leader with any integrity, any sense of decency & character would do such a thing.
Remember Bill English who owned comfortable houses in Wellington & Dipton & though his family lived in Wellington full time, his wife' GP practice & work place was Wellington & the kids went to school in Wellington, he quietly claimed his Primary residence was Dipton so he could claim the allowance until the public found out & because of the uproar he paid all the money he'd claimed back.
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/po...own-apartment/
BlueSkies, you (and MSM) grow more disingenous by the day.
Luxon is pushed into this situation due to the condition of Premier House. He isn't living there. Seems Cindy left it in a bit of a state.
This article from just days makes it clear it's not fit to live in.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/prime-...LF5ZMUPGDRQDI/
As for Bill English, you've dredged that muck before. Of course it was legitimate for him to claim his Dipton residence as his main one. He is from there and represented the electorate it was in. If you want to be taken seriously and not as a paid toadie for Labour you seriously need to up your game.
You used to one of the more reasonable Leftie tragics on here, but you have gone beyond silly.
It's irrelevant how much he is worth. It is the entitlement for the Prime Minister no matter who they are.
Simple tall poppy situation which Kiwis are experts at.
Yeah, I know the media are trying to make a story here...
But nowhere do the rules say the MP must not be wealthy to receive the entitlement (i.e. the entitlement is only for the "deserving poor").
He is well within the current rules as set by our Parliament. If Luxon living in a mortgage-free apartment he owns makes Parliament want to change the rules then so be it - but good luck with that!
The idea that Luxon should voluntarily forgo a $52K entitlement because he is wealthy is nonsense. Every single other MP in the same situation (i.e. based outside Wellington) is entitled to the same thing.
Is it too much to ask for the media to get on to some real news? :D
Well you should lobby your local MP to try to get the rules changed.
As the rules stand, Luxon and every other MP based outside of Wellington are entitled to the allowance.
Nowhere does it say you are not allowed it if you are independently wealthy, or have a mortgage free property etc.
Nothing to see here. Though I can see a bunch of people are trying their best to be outraged.