You are a big fan of capitalism I take it? How about conservatives?
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Well it's different in a way, there is an element of choice unlike your sexual orientation.
Nobody chooses to be transgender. Nobody.
The only element of "choice" is whether to transition via HRT and/or gender reassignment surgery. Some transgender people make that choice. Some do not. And many others, have no choice because they have no ability to pay for it.
A 'neoliberal' is someone who believes in small government, private ownership, and less regulation rather than more. Not someone who eats babies, not Vlad the Impaler, but the way this term has become a sort of progressive by-word for 'evil' is typical of the way that Lefty's try and demonise the Right.
You're right back their with the miners marching against Margaret Thatcher and crying over the privatisation of telephone services and the railways (which were bought back btw). Never mind that NZ government control of industries resulted in massive inefficiencies and hampered economic growth, the facts cannot be allowed to get in the way of your story.
You've got a 70's and 80's mindset, but fundamentally you believe the state should 'own the means of production' to 'benefit the proletariat rather than the bourgeoisie'. Well we are all entitled to our opinions I guess; you and KM have yours and others have theirs.
Yeah, my tranny went off with a lot of static and hiss, but eventually l managed to get it back on station.
Damn temperamental thing.
It's actually exactly what I explained it as.
The Left have had some pretty powerful people throughout modern history: just look at the power over millions people like Mao, Lenin, and Stalin were able to exert. Mao is history's biggest mass murderer, and Stalin isn't far behind him.
Social democracy could have prevented it by giving people a more moderate democratic alternative.
Before Stalin you had conservatives running things (with a neoliberal economy) and when people's needs predictably aren't being met you can see how a Lenin would be attractive.
Actually the West (especially the US) is history’s greatest mass murderer - wiping out whole societies (eg. Native Americans) and destroying their ways of life.
You forgot to add Pol Pot of course when it comes to mass murder … nobody killed more as a %tage of a country’s population than this monster?
The Left are always in a state of constant resentment and hysteria, trying to compare the downtrodden serts and peasants of olden times with today's 'working class' (teachers, web designers, retail workers etc etc etc). Same with poverty: there they live in iron shanty towns with no plumbing or clean water, here we have government benefits and supplements for anything you could wish for. "Oh the neoliberalism, oh the extreme horror"....the reality is that this society has free this, free that, and free the other. Before the advent of the welfare state the unemployed and poor had to rely on charity and family to get by....but in todays 'noeliberal horror show' 100,000 people can sit on a taxpayer paid 'jobseeker' benefit darning their socks.
It's usually been the way throughout history that a group of people would attack another group of people to take their land and resources.
Slavery - for instance - has been a constant throughout human history.
The Left would like us all to ignore this & instead embrace a patently absurd view that anglo-saxons invented invasion, conquest, slavery, and colonisation.
It's the view of the ignorant populace that politicians 'run the economy'. Politicians are happy to oblige these quasi-religious beliefs. All politicians make the claim that they are responsible for the good times, for any GDP growth that is occurring. When a downturn occurs it is then - of course - the fault of 'international factors'.
I can't see what is wrong with a large community sector, with people involved and engaged with each other. Odd that you'd expect any economic system to deliver 'everything'. Why do you expect some sort of system to deliver 'everything' while you sit on the couch 'recieving'? Do you have some sort of masochistic desire to have your life tightly controlled by the state?
Sorry red panda, the perfect utopia where everything is 'fair' does not exist. As much as you yearn for it, and believe it will be attainable with just a bloody global revolution (no doubt killing tens of millions) and a 'one world (socialist) government', the reality is that such a government would quickly devolve into a dystopian dictatorship.
Oh great!.....So National are relying on us selling $5 Billion dollars of NZ homes to foreign buyers, every year, to fund their tax cut plan, which sounds appealing but will give a few dollars a week to someone on the average wage.
That's a staggering $20 Billion dollars over 4 years of our most desirable real estate to people who don't want to live here.
Time to quit the sharemarket & or put your business on the market, & put that money into real estate if you want to preserve your wealth.
Little wonder Real Estate firms Bayleys & Barfoots are huge donors to National Party.
Don't let this happen, in 10/20 years time people would look back & think this was insane.
Do you think the average kiwi who struggled to even own a home or pay the mortgage cares who owns the $2+ million properties who would be liable for the tax? I reckon those folks will be happy to see the rich pricks, wherever they’re from get taxed 15% on their property purchases to fund more handouts to them.
Poor red skies, had his heart set on a number of palatial mansions worth over $2 million but is now concerned that an even wealthier foreign buyer may get there first, or at the very least drive the price up. You rich people and your conceits and sense of entitlement, always moaning. Meanwhile the squeezed middle are doing it tough and just want a bit more in their pockets to help cushion Labours 'cost of living crisis'. Should be easy to do but Robbo has spent up deluxe and left NZ with a bare cupboard.
Journalists to Luxon at National's campaign launch today: "anything new being announced today?"
Clearly there is an expectation that we'll get a-bribe-a-day right up to the election.
I wonder what new freebie Labour are cooking up even as we speak.....
What a crazy country. Expecting constant freebies while at the same time various hypocrites and cynics howl "ooooeerrr....they've got the numbers wrong!"
If the Left want to keep playing the game this way then I reckon for each new socialistic and unaffordable freebie Labour unveils, National should unveil a new tax cut. Let the Left howl all they want about 'numbers', the general public know all too well that Labour have blown the books but are still attempting to buy this election. Yes, let the faux outrage continue; people will see it for what it is.
Sunday current affairs tonight featured the 2 Chris's.
John Campbell couldn't help himself from sniveling in with the diversity card.
On a positive note, it was good to see Lux smack Campbell around the ears when he played the envy card .
If that was Goldsmith, he wouldn't have known how to defend his gold.
I think there's a couple of things going on here, that we haven't seen for a long while:
1. For the first time in a very long time, this is not an election on populist leader appeal, neither prospective PM is particularly personally appealing. It's not about popularity this time, maybe we should be grateful for that, for a change.
Which leads to,
2. For the first time in a very long time, this is an election on policy, and it will be a stern test of whether the centre right or the centre left, and their coalition partners, can tap into the psych of the population, and dole out the most appealing policies for the masses who vote.
I'm looking forward to this election, it will be a nice change from the many past popularity contests.
My only concern is that despite bad policy, designed only to attract votes, which both major parties are proposing, one will end up being elected. I suppose any government after being elected can change its mind, though the question is whether either of them have the gumption to face reality and do the right thing after they're elected.
I think both are duplicitous and neither have the gumption needed to do that. Win at all costs, dupe the population if you have to, anything to win.
You've got a major problem then, it looks like National have been blindsided by our International Tax Agreements & are now scrambling to cover this.
There's the Trade Agreements & the International Tax Agreements.
Should have been aware of this before announcing the policy to open the doors to foreign buyers who don't want to live here.
Means more gaping holes in the net to capture the 15% tax.
It's clear as more scrutiny come on their policies, their figures are crumbling.
There is no problem because international tax treaties are based around 'Income Taxation' and not on 'consumption' taxation such as sales tax or GST. Why does the media get this all wrong? The same argument can be said about NZ residents owning houses in Australia or Canada where THEIR tax laws apply CGT on non-residents while at the IRD end, there is no CGT applied on the sale of foreign owned houses.
So I would highly suggest you get back to doing some homework where international tax treaties apply. After all when Canada imposed a foreign buyer's tax of 20% (in some provinces), no specific country was alarmed.
Very well articulated and researched, SBQ.
One of the countries singled out as potentially affected by David Parker and the leftist scaremongers, Singapore, imposed a 60% (yes, 60%) tax in April this year on foreigners buying Singapore property! No impact whatsoever on Singapore’s FTA or tax treaty with NZ, let alone all the other countries Singapore has treaties & agreements with like Australia, China, US, UK, etc etc.
An excerpt from Bloomberg article :
“9If a foreigner were to buy a $5 million property in Singapore, they’d have to pay 65 percent in taxes, or about $3.25 million. In other major international hubs, the taxes would be much less: Foreigners in Vancouver and Hong Kong have a tax rate of 29 percent, while London, Melbourne, and Sydney are all in the 14 percent range. New York, in comparison, has a pretty low tax rate of just 4.3 percent.
Thanks to the change, foreigners are more likely to purchase property in nearby Hong Kong, Bloomberg noted. Those from mainland China, in particular, may see the region as much more appealing when compared with Singapore. Hong Kong currently charges a still-high 30 percent stamp duty on property purchases by foreigners—but if a homeowner becomes a permanent resident later on, most of that can be refunded, thanks to Hong Kong’s efforts to attract talent.”
https://robbreport.com/shelter/homes...te-1234836305/
You can be disgusted with that all you like, but when side is offering bribes then how would you fight that? "People, they are offering bribes but we will not offer one penny...we say 'ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country'. We will lift wages through the strength of our prayers and our good wishes for the nations future. Please give us your votes out of the goodness of your hearts".
Don't blame the politicians, blame the voters. People have an expectation of all sorts of goodies, both in the budget and at election time. I maintain that when the Left simply hand out more and more 'free' (not free, must be paid for) stuff then the Right have no alternative but to offer tax cuts. Either the Right offers something to voters or the 'progressives' win every election and keep rolling out socialism.
Be disgusted with human nature if you must be disgusted with something. Voters are clearly flighty, flitting from party to party with a 'what have you done for me lately attitude'? Kids at a lolly scramble, innit. Meanwhile debt is piled up for future generations to deal with. That's what is disgusting.
To put things in perspective, we need to understand that over the past 100 years, it's countries who were able to borrow had the greatest level of prosperity. While developing poor nations, because of their corrupt nature of their gov'ts, were not able to participate much in the economic growth that OECD nations achieved. This is not to say we should be having a free ticket to pile on more debt as we please but there's a strong distinction for nations that are 'able' to borrow, and those that simply 'can't' ; (I say can't because foreign banks don't have the appetite to take on that kind of risk). We can look at this on a micro level say, from a bank's point of view. Take the individual that has debt, who also has a high earning ability, but wants to borrow more debt vs the individual that comes to the bank with nothing, or a small chance they would be able to pay the debt back because a history of defaulting on prior loans, etc. Then you begin to understand how wealthy nations despite their massively rising debt (ie. the US) are able to borrow so easily simply because for future generations, they're most likely to pay it back.
Inflation and wage increases are both increasing NZ's revenue (National complains about that and says it should be "returned" to voters)
You’re a big fan of high inflation now? Labours strategy is to spend like there is no tomorrow to try to force National into a corner, and then howl when National offers something to potential voters. It’s all very disingenuous. You think it’s a very clever strategy, but we’ll see come the election if it works.
You are wasting your time debating with panda-nz - an ignoramus Labour shill who wanted Ryman to load up on more debt to do a share buyback when the company was close to defaulting on its huge debt burden.
Labour will continue to borrow and spend wastefully with no heed of future consequences - it’s in this government’s dna.
I wish this was more convincing, unfortunately its not!
Forget the media, or my homework, that's just a deflection from the fact National's next Minister of Finance has made a complete hash of the inflationary $14.6 Billion tax cuts policy according to growing numbers of International Tax & Trade Agreement experts.
Even Chris Luxon is sounding anything but solid & increasingly panicked, ...rock solid has morphed into we'll find a way.
They hadn't even considered this might break International Tax Agreements until 2 days after the policy was announced!
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...evelation.html
All the howling by the Left and the media - and you and red panda are doing your bit to amplify it as well - will not deter the many voters who can see quite clearly what is going on, with Labours endless bribes never being subjected to scrutiny while National are the victims of a massive pile-on whenever they announce anything.
Then we have the CTU launching an extremely negative American-style ‘attack ad’ campaign today, with front page ads in the New Zealand Herald attacking Christoper Luxon in a very personal way. This is truly sickening and will no doubt backfire on the Left, which is viewed in many quarters as corrupt & obsessed with clinging on to power at all costs. The nexus between the unions, the media, and the Labour party will no doubt come under closer scrutiny after the election, should the opposition overcome the powerful forces currently ranged against them.
The tax cut is designed so gov'ts don't continue to over spend. Are you aware there's only ONE place & ONE entity, that causes inflation? Please make references to these 'experts' that say otherwise. They are certainly not from academics like Milton Friedman, where it's a known fact inflation is caused by gov't spending. Maybe you've have skipped the YouTube posts i've made on the sources of inflation?
Again I will reiterate, fact is Canada and Australia ALL have foreign buyers tax on residential properties. The National Party is doing the same thing and the rules are clear and cut. As I said before, Tax Treaties are around 'INCOME taxation". But if China ever does have a concern, you can be assured none of it would be upheld in international court because the fact is, as Winston Peters said many times before, "Can New Zealanders directly buy residential properties in China?" I would say China doesn't have a hope in chance of disputing this 15% buyers tax on their citizens when you and I can't even buy property there.
But let's not forget, the threshold is $2M whereas in Canada, it's on ANY value on ANY house. We've let foreign buyers off lightly in NZ with this threshold and would much prefer a blanket wide no exemption tax that other OECD nations have imposed.
You must be in the Red Panda camp that refuses how to do homework or a bit of research online about the facts. By all means, tell me what international tax treaties have to do? (psst... it's so individuals are not "DOUBLE taxed").
Excellent post with well made points. Labour will continue to announce new spending initiatives while at the same time they cut revenue (see ‘no GST on fruit & vegetables’). This is being done not for the benefit of the country, but in a cynical attempt to outmanoeuvre the opposition so Labour can continue to govern us all on behalf of the CTU.
If anyone here seriously believes that media cartoons or CTU adverts, are going to have any significant impact on voters, you are dreaming. Right now, a bunch of voters have already decided which party they are voting for (including left, centre, right leaning voters). Another bunch of Kiwis, never vote and won't vote this time. The final group consists of people like me, who are frustrated beyond belief, and literally still do not know who they will vote for.
Bunch 1 - are not going to change their minds so any media "propaganda" will have zero impact
Bunch 2 - are not interested in the election or voting, and won't be paying any attention to anything.
Bunch 3 - are responsible voters, who will not make their voting decision based on cartoons, adverts, Party Campaign "fluff" or party "sparring wars" or character assassinations.
So what the heck are you so het up about? Make your own voting decisions. Respect everyone's right to make theirs, whether you agree with it or not. Nobody knows for sure how this will pan out, and nobody knows for sure what the elected government will do in the future. They are all making promises. And anyone will half a brain knows full well, those promises mean next to nothing once a party is in the driver's seat. Especially in a coalition or Support Agreement situation. There are literally no guarantees about anything.
Just do your own homework, make your own vote on election day. That's all any of us can do. The rest is out of our hands.
So the voting public can be divided into 3 bunches….and not one of these bunches is (according to you) influenced by the media or by attack ads etc. Have a look at your post again if you doubt that: one bunch has apparently already made up their minds, one bunch don’t vote, and the third and final bunch - unsurprisingly labelled by you as ‘responsible voters’ as you are in this ‘bunch’ - are apparently not influenced by anything they see in the media or on a billboard.
Which begs the question: why would anyone run a campaign of attack ads? Why would left wing cartoonists constantly attack political parties that they clearly hate with a passion? Research indicates that anger causes people to engage more than they otherwise would. Clearly people who aim to demonise opponents hope to make their supporters angry enough about whoever is being demonised that they go and vote. So it’s very much a tactic aimed at energising and motivating a particular support base.
There's a problem with that belief. You have people that refuse to do the homework, or look into each party candidate, or simply don't care and forever vote with the same party time after time. Yes there's a large part of the population that don't have the critical thinking when it comes to politics and will just vote on the basis that "oh that person seems to be a nice guy or girl". From this angle this is so stupid. But when it comes to buying a new TV or a dishwasher, people spend a lot of time figuring out what's the best deal, what features they want, warranty, etc. To me, if the person voting does not make the effort to understand the situation NZ faces, then they should not be voting at all. If they have been told lies about a particular election party, then they should not be voting at all.
Don't worry. My cousin's husband is a staunch believer that ONLY the people that pay taxes should have the right to vote. I don't think i'm being that extreme
I agree with you. But those people you are talking about more than likely fit into Bunch 1. They have always voted Party X and always will. OR, they voted Party X last time and are determined not to do so this time round. In most cases they have made their minds up and won't be swayed to changed it.
Again, I agree, and many people will do just that - not vote. I have had conversations with all manner of people lately, and have been quite shocked to hear people who have always voted, saying they are not going to bother this time "because it won't make any difference." I doubt many of those people are going to take too much notice of a cartoon or union advert. I say "shocked" but I actually do understand why they are making that choice, even though I don't agree with it. I am personally spending way more time and energy than is good for me, trying to make my decision, and it is creating more than a little stress. So I can understand the temptation to just say "oh **** it. I'm over it." I don't agree with that, but I do understand it.
Things are very different this time round. As I have said before, this is the first time I have been faced with such a dilemma over what to do with my votes. It is not as cut and dried as some here are making out. I am not happy or comfortable making a decision to vote for a party whose values and policies (for what little they are worth) do not align with my own, purely as a means to vote out the current government (whose values and policies also, no longer align with my own). Right now ACT worries me more than NAT does, so the fact that there is very little doubt we will end up with a NAT/ACT coalition, is not just something I can ignore.
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To me, if the person voting does not make the effort to understand the situation NZ faces, then they should not be voting at all.
Plenty clear that NZ is perfectly within tax & FT agreements to impose the 15% tax on non residents buying $2m+ properties in MZ.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...AC5HKCBLJ2FLI/
National’s decision to keep Labour’s new top income tax rate whilst reducing the bright line Capital gains down to two years indicates it is happy to further increase the tax burden on younger income earners whilst reducing the burden on gains derived from even more expensive investor housing. Our shift to a low productivity economy supported by immigration from poorer countries whilst the mostly pakeha older population make tax efficient money from real estate will progress further.
I wonder how many houses near the $2m limit will be bumped up by foreign buyers, keen to park their wealth in NZ? Banned now, will the 15% be a disincentive for them? National seems to love residential real estate owners. It probably makes electoral sense for them.
I will probably end up being a non-voter this time around.
Come to think of it if left voters think labour is destined to lose then having Bishop Brian as part of the right wing rat pack will make a comeback much easier ;)
Absence either. Sorry, it's rare to catch the grammar police with silly spelling mistakes. Remember that politics is 1. gain power, 2. retain power. That means, what they say they will do is not necessarily what they will do. Applies to all of them, this is the 'gain power' stage. Say whatever they think is sufficient to win the election. Do whatever they want after they've won.
I didn't say that a party has to align 100% - obviously none do, which I imagine is true for most voters. But not allowing landlords to depreciate their buildings is grossly unfair and illogical. There is simply no justification for it. What next - disallow taxi drivers to depreciate their vehicles? Stop engineers depreciating their machinery?
Sounds like ‘the toothy one’ and her successor, the ventriloquist’s dummy: talk a load of hot air about “”let’s do this!” and then deliver nothing except a concealed ‘co-governance’ agenda (‘delivering for maori’) - all while borrowing & spending with reckless abandon.
‘Abandon’ is, of course, a key word here. The ventriloquist's dummy has abandoned Labours Ardernian waffle about ‘be(ing) kind’ and is now unmasked as a really nasty little piece of work. Recent stand-ups high-light his two ‘dead shark’ eyes and taut mouth as he spits petulant venom at his opponents, while his lackeys in the CTU serve up a campaign of nasty attack ads. From faux ‘spread your legs’ bonhomie to the depths of gutter politics: pressure has a way of revealing the true nature of people.
Is he as bad as Sam Uffindel (who Lux reckons is a good bloke).
A man takes part in a hazing incident as an adolescent and red panda thinks he should be wiped out for life. And of course a new cardinal sin was added recently: he suggested that his wife usually does the grocery shopping. Labour will be wishing they hadn’t repealed the ‘3 strikes’ law….
Hipkins is another con-artist like Ardern - his term as various ministers have all been disasters, 'spray & walk away' Chipkins.
Some examples of what a nasty piece of work Hipkins really is :
Exhibit 1 :
In October 2021, Northland was sent in to an 11-day lockdown after three allegedly "sex workers" with possible gang connections crossed the Auckland border.
Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins accused them of using "false information to travel across the border".
But it was later revealed through OIAs that Hipkins knew at the time that a blunder by officials had been the reason and the women were at no fault at all.
He has never apologised or corrected the record, nor has he bothered to even correct the reports that these were gang-related sex workers.
Exhibit 2 :
Charlotte Bellis
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/...iq-application
In the case of Charlotte Bellis, he was forced to apologise and correct the record. But only because the Kiwi journalist, then pregnant and stuck in Afghanistan took legal action.
Hipkins, in his defence of the government's MIQ system used Bellis' personal information as a political weapon and made incorrect statements about her circumstances, including that she ignore consular assistance.
As compared to the massive cover-up in Labour over the bullying in the Party & the Cabinet that Dr Sharma revealed and which was denied by Ardern & Labour?
And subsequently proved true when Kiri Allan blew herself up as Minister of Justice, drink driving and resisting arrest after running away from the scene of her crash.
Thus is Ardern gagging on the truth after the Kiri Allan affair :
https://rnz-ressh.cloudinary.com/ima...age_crop_87348
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...harma-1120.jpg
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/u...BRHHNEJV6M.jpg
The labour shills here should get informed on (little) willie jacksons complicity in the Roast Busters affair before judging Uffindells past.
What has Uffindell done now? You think he should be doing the grocery shopping more than he does? When does this focus on buying food become a matter to be worked out between two people in a loving relationship, rather than a matter for open public debate? Perhaps the powers of the ‘Grocery Commissioner’ could be widened to investigate who does the food shopping in a typical New Zealand household(?)
Yup - get Labour to investigate & reveal Dr Sharma’s bullying claims now that he has been vindicated via Kiri Allan debacle.
Ardern, Hipkins and the Labour government are pathological liars - this is now a fact.
The PM of NZ was a low down lying witch & a cover up artist - that’s how rotten this Labour government is.
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Remember how Ardern rejected & disputed Dr Sharma's claims of bullying within the Labour government/cabinet?
The red witch not only lied but she attempted to gaslight Dr Sharma's as 'unsound' and needing help. When he persisted, she got rid of him - instead of following through the bullying claims.
That's how KIND the red witch really is.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/parlia...R5DFHI74SXMSY/
When kiri allan smashed up that ute, how did the ute have 2 SLASHED tyres?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/electi...D654LCVEYJE5A/
‘National is promising to build 10,000 electric vehicle chargers - 10 times more than currently exist, Christopher Luxon has revealed.
Luxon is campaigning in Christchurch and his time in the Garden City has included a stop at Rollickin Gelato where he was challenged by staff to scoop as many ice creams as he could in one minute.
Luxon said National would invest $257 million over four years to build the chargers, and revive the “highly successful” ultra-fast broadband (UFB) funding model to deliver the chargers.’
Kiri Allen hit that 2000kg ute directly into the rear wheel on the drivers side and punted it into the curb on the other side with enough force to move it forward 2m in park with the handbrake on.
Don't need to make up fairy tales when the real thing is damning enough.
The tyre didn't get slashed, the tyre could be fine but wheels don't hold air if they are bent or have holes in them. Or you can break the bead (that's where the tyre contacts the wheel) with enough force, look at how far forward the axle is in the wheel well.
https://www.sharetrader.co.nz/image/...DjTPOFCij/2Q==
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You reckon she went out of her way when she was pissed and distressed to walk round the side of the car and pop both the rear tyres instead of "slashing" both the drivers side ones?
‘National promises to create a new Great Walk
The National Party is promising $14 million over four years to make a new 80-kilometre Great Walk out of the Waiau-Toa/Molesworth trail in upper Canterbury.
The policy is undoubtedly going to be popular with voters. Spaces for many of the Great Walks, such as the popular Milford Track, often sell out in minutes.
The Tuatapere Hump Ridge Track is already in the process of becoming New Zealand's 11th Great Walk, announced in 2019. It is due for completion later this year.
In 2017, the Hurunui District Council agreed to support the efforts of the Kaikōura District Council in reclassifying the Waiau Toa (Clarence)/Molesworth trail as one of New Zealand's Great Walks.’
How they can possibly justify this expense is beyond me.
They are campaigning on the fact that NZ is in a recession and economic crisis, due to Labour's never-ending spending, and are promising to reign government spending in, to get us "back on track." Yet they announce something like this???
Unbefrickenbelievable.
$14m over 4 years is chump change, it's a good addition to NZ for us and for tourism.
You have well & truly lost all perspective, so full of bile are you with your deep disappointment & non reciprocated benefit from voting Ardern in the last elections.
$14m over 4 years to add an additional walk which will allow more NZers and tourists to enjoy NZ’s great outdoor - a very well considered and excellent spend of $14m.
Go for a walk, JAK and smell the spring blossoms. You are getting bitter and twisted - not good for your health!