It's time for the Left to take the ACT approach to politics.
Ask for things well beyond your wildest dreams -free dental/optical/medical for everyone. Best in class schools. Public transport. A million new builds for public housing and just freaking push until people are exhausted.
#NZPol
Ask for things well beyond your wildest dreams -free dental/optical/medical for everyone. Best in class schools. Public transport. A million new builds for public housing and just freaking push until people are exhausted.
#NZPol
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Your suggestions are a lot better.
Its an asymmetrical war for them, the lords vs the peasants
The left will have to engage the electorate in person and here.
Be audacious. Be loud. Take over every news cycle. Not just left. Far left. Planet and people.
That’s not BS. It’s Inland Revenue data.
NZ’s 311 wealthiest families (median wealth: $106m) pay just 8.9% tax on their real income.
Most workers pay 2–3x more.
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Source: IRD High-Wealth Report (2023)
Untaxed income from shares, property, trusts, and companies.
Only 7% of their income is taxed like yours.
Even after GST, they still pay less than 10%. How fair is this?
• Wealth tax on assets over $2m
• Capital gains tax (excl. family home)
• Foreign bank & excess profits tax
• Raises $16b+ to fund housing, health, climate
The cleaner isn’t taxed more than a millionaire. Health workers are valued. Kids have what they need. Our whenua is respected
No more survival mode. We all deserve to thrive. A fair Aotearoa, with no one left behind
Watch this space for 2026
As climate change impacts on sea level rise,the taxpayer will have to buy out coastal property owners.This includes multi million dollar residences.It's only fair that owners of valuable investment properties contribute via a CGT when they sell for gain.
Hell NO Seymour 90% Say So!
Why does Seymour get so much coverage? Because he provides quotes on everything, whether or not the newsroom asked for it. And when you've got a story to pad out, a fresh quote goes in 🤷
Why spend 10 mins each talking to individual journalists when you can email dozens in seconds?
He hasn't just started doing this recently, it's not a novel concept.
Other parties worry about being irritating, maybe? (Irritating journos, lol. They are pissed off about everything and also professional pesterers.)
Build relationships with reporters, talk straight, respond swiftly, be quotable. It all helps.
Progressive politicians can do this too, but don't. (Perhaps they should start?) Even if they get half the coverage, it's a win!
You can't blame them for bombing you - it is your decision to publish that puts their lies and distortions into the public domain
That is on every editor
Add to it that the right owns the media and the ethical editors are placed in a bad circumstance
On Q&A David Seymour scoffed & denied that he is deliberately running the school lunches down to fail, so isn't the alternative it is beyond his ability to run this program? #nzpol
He wants to have his way no matter the will of the people.
This is a known stance of Neo-Liberal & Libertarian politics.
Remove minimum work hour requirements from benefits
Subsidise EVs and electric bikes
Subsidise double-glazing and heat pumps
Fund food seed and seedling banks
Fund tool libraries
Ban alcohol advertising; get alcohol out of supermarkets
Tax non-renewable resource extraction
We dream too small
- ban money / make money worthless
- dissolve kāwanatanga permanently
- make housing free (or equivalently: make housing collectively and publicly owned)
- remove all roads [keep bike paths]
This is exactly what we should be doing
Having some vision and shouting it to the rooftops
Create a clear left coalition that is all about actual people and environment and take them on
Within 3years.
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Dental debt is a big thing for WINZ. I think people should be getting good proactive dental care and it should be 100% free
We have to be pragmatic.
The social/political pendulum has swung to the right. Time to begin the push back.
Aotearoa is ready.
#ActLeftGoLeft - how that does work as a hashtag?
Or, #LookLeftGoLeft
The journos would have to work hard to avoid writing about an abundance of material drafted for them
So party donations to start
The right pays for the press in a lot of cases so they would have to react instead of just acting which might be interesting.
https://bsky.app/profile/tepaatimaori.bsky.social/post/3lm2g4umnc22g
Sorry. We thought you wanted a social safety net. Dang. Well.. all these healthy people can fight