That will make them the highest taxing NZ govt in history - from a coalition which promised to deliver no new taxes.
It is already broken though so you're right there, see the surprise new petrol taxes and rego fees. What's one more to the list.
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What a fxxked up country NZ has become after 6 years of the Labour government under Ardern, Hipkins, Robertson and the Maori cabal.
Nothing highlights the malaise the country is in better than the Kainga Ora (KO) debacle over Labour's NO EVICTION policy:
1. Criminals and anti-social behavior are tolerated (and implicitly condoned) over law abiding citizens by KO (under direction from Labour).
2. State homes are given to these crims and unruly anti-socials which they proceeded to wreck and destroy, piece by piece but they were not to be evicted because they have 'blameless' children! WTF were they doing having children in the fisrt place and where do adult responsibility towards their children and to the state begin?
3. KO's staff numbers grew by a staggering 74% over Labour's 6 years in power and the wage bill for managerial positions blew out by 78%! Yet they did less with the increased numbers!
And now, we have bleeding hearts do-gooders like the Salvation Army (WTF) out there crying foul because the government is at last going to favour law abiding citizens over crims and anti-socials!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/...e-a-difference
Case 1 :
"He said the government crack down on anti-social behaviour might not change the outcome."
"I don't think it will change [unruly tenants] behaviour because Kāinga Ora has let them get away with it so long.
"My property manager, he comes across as terrified of people like that. They've become so unruly, that even Kāinga Ora themselves are pretty scared."
Case 2 :
One of Smith's neighbours, social housing tenant Leoni, was also a victim of anti-social behaviour.
"[My neighbours] are a couple, a young one, with at least five children. All it took was for me to ask them to move one of their kids out of the driveway for them to go ballistic at me.
"They shouted, yelled, cornered me into my front door the minute I pulled over. They called me white trash, silly old f****. They yelled and spat on my garden; it was terrifying."
She said her complaints to Kāinga Ora had fallen on deaf years.
Case 3 :
In Christchurch, Bernice Hodges, 58, knew exactly what it was like to live in fear.
"For years we had these neighbours, also Kāinga Ora tenants like me, terrifying the whole community.
"They were day after day yelling and swearing, abusing everyone, showing the fingers, mumbling bad words as we passed by."
She said the fear of going home took a toll on her mental health.
"I felt insecure and unsupported. I felt so intimidated to the point that I was always recording [as I was] going out of my driveway or coming home due to the abuse, the foul language."
Hodges tried to contact the state landlord to act against the anti-social behaviour, but she said nothing was done.
"They just turned around and sort of switched it straight under the carpet."
After multiple attempts to get the situation resolved and her peace back, Hodges took Kāinga Ora to court.
"Nothing was done until I decided to get it enforced by going to the Tenancy Tribunal.
"And the result of that was those neighbours were moved, after it was strongly suggested by the adjudicator that Kāinga Ora did so."
And get a load of this :
The Kāinga Ora managers’ annual pay, as of June of this year, averaged $173,400, nearly twice the average annual salary ($90,800) across the Public Service.
The Kāinga Ora figures represent only base pay; it excludes benefits like superannuation.
So Labour's answer to the housing crisis (after failing to deliver on Kiwibuild) was to radically increase KO's staff numbers and salaries - in other words, throw money at the problem with zero accountability and follow up.
And we have MSM woke leftist journos wanting problems fixed in 100 days! FXCK the jounos, I say.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...LTNXA7SUATFOU/
The graduates & young professionals are already leaving NZ and going to Australia by the tens of thousands - there is little incentive left in NZ for hard working & smart young people to stay and they better leave while the going is good.
When the parasites and beneficiaries bred by Labour & the woke left by the hundreds of thousands leave to join them in the future, the Australians will close the border.
If the new government can stem the exodus, well and good but as my god-daughter (27 years old) said to me when she left for Australia 2 weeks ago with her partner, why bothering sticking around when there's so much more for them in Australia.
Her partner (a builder) got a job in the first week and she just got hired yesterday on a salary 50% higher than her last job in NZ. She did online job interviews fir 2 jobs before she flew over.
The new govt will need to reform not only social welfare but also introduce major reform of tax. Will they have the stomach for both?
SCV means that it's mostly people who don't qualify for a visa - ie the unskilled.
Most kiwis move to brisbane (and it's not even close in terms of the proportion). Not melb or sydney which is better for professionals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Brisbane