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Wellington City Council considers sweeping rates changes
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The Hutt Valley does this, they have a land and improvement value. I'm not sure what the split is though.
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Wellington City Council considers sweeping rates changes
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The Hutt Valley does this, they have a land and improvement value. I'm not sure what the split is though.
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The Green Party’s tax plan
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That's definitely my plan. I'm in Remutaka electorate, which Hipkins is all but guaranteed to win.
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Cash-poor, house-rich: The retirement dilemma driving reverse mortgages
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Extremely difficult group of people to find any sympathy for whatsoever.
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Cash-poor, house-rich: The retirement dilemma driving reverse mortgages
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Yeah, it sounds like they will just refuse to sell for less than what they think the house is worth, and would rather have all their equity slowly chewed up by compound interest.
The kids can go fuck themselves.
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Cash-poor, house-rich: The retirement dilemma driving reverse mortgages
I suspect this will end badly for them, and I hope it does.
They're refusing to sell their house over 60k in equity, thinking the "current downturn" will turn around. No, we've just come out of a bubble, this is what house prices should be.
As for your oil stocks, I hope the bottom falls out of those.
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The Green Party’s tax plan
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Yeah, TOP really have this figured out. I'm planning to vote for either them or Labour.
The Green party just have too much baggage to be taken seriously.
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Russia warns United States: use of SpaceX for spying makes its satellites a target
Starlink launches forty-ish Starlink sats every other week, Russia could deplete it's entire arsenal of missiles and, if they're lucky, cause a hole in their coverage.
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'Don't keep people home': Govt to give public health advice around sending sick children to school - Seymour
We need to normalise staying home when you're sick, rather than sharing it around. And this tosspot needs to stop trying to sacrifice people to the economy.
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Public servants ordered back to the office, working from home ‘not an entitlement’
These fuckers really are on a speed run to be the first single term government we've had since the 70s.
And being told you have to deal with two hours of commuting because a bunch of Cafés are struggling must feel great, too.
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Te Anau toilet fee canned after tourists use the bushes
Serves them right, charging for a basic biological need is a scumbag move.
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Criminal charges filed against HelloFresh
Once again, the theory that anything being shilled by multiple YouTubers at once is a scam is proven correct.
I wonder what skeletons Factor have in their closet.
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'Don't keep people home': Govt to give public health advice around sending sick children to school - Seymour
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Please don't send your sick children to school, I don't want to catch a disease off the little Petri dishes.
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'Don't keep people home': Govt to give public health advice around sending sick children to school - Seymour
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This is genuinely window licker levels of stupidity.
Everyone is susceptible to getting a cold, and while it isn't dangerous for most people, it definitely sucks. So please don't spread it.
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Should we tip hospo staff in New Zealand?
I will boycott any business that encourages tipping, fuck that.
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Can we defederate with Hexbear?
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Downvoting doesn't work when there's more of them than there are of us, and they all upvote each other.
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Can't set pronouns in display name
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You, your, and you again, are all gender neutral already.
I don't see the point of this.
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Know your rights - police officer thrown off game by left-hand driver
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Cool, thanks for contributing.
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Rawhiti Pork is dumping effluent in our rivers and it could take years to stop them
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Yup, I don't think there is any single party that is willing to take bold steps to fix the underlying issues this country faces, the biggest of which is the insane cost of housing.
We should be building state houses by the thousand, breaking the stranglehold Fletcher building has on the economy, and putting in medium and high density housing along every public transport corridor.
Meanwhile, National are beating the drum about roads, some of which we need, to be fair, Act are being Libertarian shitheads as usual, Winnie is shitstirring as usual, and the three headed clusterfuck won't stop trying to divide the country along racial lines.
And while this is going on, we're discharging raw effluent into our waterways, as usual.
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'It's a racket': Why a man got $96 fine when getting two coffees
They've got absolutely no legal basis for those fines, and anyone who pays is a mug.
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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon blames unions for ongoing strike action
I mean, yeah, organising a strike is kinda what a union does.
Why do they feel they need to strike, Luxon?