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#2977092 4-Oct-2022 08:34

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8. Apply "healthy homes" to all homes, just because you own it does not make in any more healthy than if it were rented.

It only applies to rentals because rentals are a business. You are free to keep your own kitchen as disgusting as you like but as soon as you are making money off it and selling products from it needs a health rating.

13 Tax cyclists. No matter how you think it we will always need roads. Feel different, then I hope you never have need of emergency service , nor suffer from a disability. Not sure how tradies and goods and service will work either without roads. After this comes the question of who will pay for the roads, cycle ways, etc etc etc.

How would this be cost effective? How much would it cost to license and enforce it for bikes and how much would it bring in. How much damage does a bike do to roads and would all bikes need to be licensed? my 8 year old that bikes to school? No one is suggesting that roads are removed, just bits of roads are rightsized.

17. Minimum % of NZ goods MUST stay in NZ. Indias milk industry is MUCH bigger than NZs, but they only export less than 10%, we export 90%. Keep 85% of dairy in NZ and the prices will drop, same with Timber, Fish, foods, etc etc etc.

This would never work. We currently export over 95% of all dairy produced. We do not have the internal market to absorb the production. Should we be paying international market rates? no, but reserving a significant amount in NZ is not going to work. Fonterra could sell the 5% that it does sell in NZ at significantly below market rate with very little impact to it's bottom line, like wise Zespri, however this would have the knock on effect of driving the small producers under.

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#2977093 4-Oct-2022 08:40

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I am also the person who pays above average taxes so people on lower incomes can get money from the tax payer.

I am sure you accept all the benefits you have from the tax payer as "your right" and nto care about who is paying for that for you.

Wild, the taxes I pay come from the job that I do, not owning multiple properties in a country where we have a housing shortage and affordability crisis.

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#2977227 4-Oct-2022 11:27

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None of my Tenants pay anywhere close to "market rates", if they did I would be earning an additional 40k or more a year.

You are doing what for others ????

I have been in some form of paid employment since I was 7, so over 50 years now. Why can I not get to enjoy what I have worked for, why can my family not enjoy it too ?

When I got into rentals there was no KiwiSaver. My employer did not double my retirement savings contributions every week, nor did I get tax back from the government for it. I have ben a solo dad, no free child care, no free under 14 doctors visits, most of my wage went of child care because I chose to work. I have a disabled son. If I did not do for myself, no one else was. I have never been on a benefit.

I still study to keep up to date at work, I spend time talking to younger staff about their rights as renters, consumers, etc.

So be very careful about who you call "entitled"

Most people when in a hole stop digging, not grab a jackhammer. You make yourself look more and more entitled with every post. But anyway, enough of that. You can feel free to sledge everyone else in the country, I will not engage with you any further.

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#2977582 5-Oct-2022 08:33

More investment in frontline staff across healthcare, police and education, paid for by a reduction in bureaucracy.

Change in education to teach life skills at age appropriate levels, including things like budgeting for normal cost of living expenses, a breakdown on the costs of raising a family (each child costs x$ per year), how to plan for a future etc

Change in student loan scheme so that those that stay and work in NZ are rewarded for contributing back to society (1/2 current contributions for salaries under a certain level with capital rebate after x years of paying tax).

Elimination of race based policies.

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#2977591 5-Oct-2022 08:50

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More investment in frontline staff across healthcare, police and education, paid for by a reduction in bureaucracy.

Change in education to teach life skills at age appropriate levels, including things like budgeting for normal cost of living expenses, a breakdown on the costs of raising a family (each child costs x$ per year), how to plan for a future etc

Change in student loan scheme so that those that stay and work in NZ are rewarded for contributing back to society (1/2 current contributions for salaries under a certain level with capital rebate after x years of paying tax).

Elimination of race based policies.

Race based policies ????

Like the cost of tertiary education being beyond Maori and Pacifica families being able to afford it ?

Like accepting Maori have rights, have language, have culture, but its acceptable to force the one you are comfortable with onto them because "everyone speaks english" ?

My step kids are 1/2 Samoan, the step daughters husband is Maori, english is his 2nd language. We will be learning Maori along with our grandchild, he deserves ALL of his heritage AND all we can give him of ours, he will be richer because of it.

OUR discomfort is part of the price we are willing to pay.

Raced based policies are there to counteract the normalised raced based policies that hold them back.

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#2977604 5-Oct-2022 09:48

A rejig of our tax system. Introduce a zero tax threshold for the first $20k of income. Increase top rate to 40%, still significantly lower than equivalent rates in most other countries. Introduce a comprehensive capital gains tax, excluding primary family dwellings. Reintroduce the R&D tax credits for business.

Further push to decarbonise the economy. Ensure impact on carbon emissions is considered and weighted heavily in RMA applications. Extra grants and incentives for individuals and companies to invest in cleaning up their energy and transport (low interest or interest free loans for installing solar panels, improving insulation etc)

Commuter public transport to be free. More of a push for passenger rail to be utilised between main centres, including upgrading the rail from Auckland to Wellington and increase the speed of trains on that route.

Increase funding for frontline staff in healthcare and education at all levels. Health to have funding for practitioners who can assist with general advice and provide referrals to appropriate GPs, specialists, and psychiatric care as a first line of contact. For those small little things you are not sure if you should have it checked out but don't want to wait for an appointment with an already overbooked GP. Similar more teachers, and better pay to encourage more people to see it as a rewarding career option. Extra funding for school support staff to take non-teaching work off teachers. Too many are leaving the profession after 5 years or less due to workload issues.

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#2977606 5-Oct-2022 09:57

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A rejig of our tax system. Introduce a zero tax threshold for the first $20k of income. Increase top rate to 40%, still significantly lower than equivalent rates in most other countries. Introduce a comprehensive capital gains tax, excluding primary family dwellings. Reintroduce the R&D tax credits for business.

Further push to decarbonise the economy. Ensure impact on carbon emissions is considered and weighted heavily in RMA applications. Extra grants and incentives for individuals and companies to invest in cleaning up their energy and transport (low interest or interest free loans for installing solar panels, improving insulation etc)

Commuter public transport to be free. More of a push for passenger rail to be utilised between main centres, including upgrading the rail from Auckland to Wellington and increase the speed of trains on that route.

Increase funding for frontline staff in healthcare and education at all levels. Health to have funding for practitioners who can assist with general advice and provide referrals to appropriate GPs, specialists, and psychiatric care as a first line of contact. For those small little things you are not sure if you should have it checked out but don't want to wait for an appointment with an already overbooked GP. Similar more teachers, and better pay to encourage more people to see it as a rewarding career option. Extra funding for school support staff to take non-teaching work off teachers. Too many are leaving the profession after 5 years or less due to workload issues.

why exclude primary family dwellings ? Is it because you have a vested interest ?

Health practitioners have those things, they are call nurses and GPs already have them and pay them. The actual issue is lack of funding and bureaucracy. GPs have gone to only working 3-4 days a week so they have the other days to do paperwork. If they are available for 5 days, then end up working 7 days, and then on a hourly basis earn less than the average tradie. New Doctors do NOT want to become GPs in private practice because of this and the inability to have holidays.

The interest free stuff for insulation is already there.

Teachers need to be BETTER trained, particularly in STEM subjects.

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#2977632 5-Oct-2022 10:48

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why exclude primary family dwellings ? Is it because you have a vested interest ?

Health practitioners have those things, they are call nurses and GPs already have them and pay them. The actual issue is lack of funding and bureaucracy. GPs have gone to only working 3-4 days a week so they have the other days to do paperwork. If they are available for 5 days, then end up working 7 days, and then on a hourly basis earn less than the average tradie. New Doctors do NOT want to become GPs in private practice because of this and the inability to have holidays.

The interest free stuff for insulation is already there.

Teachers need to be BETTER trained, particularly in STEM subjects.

Excluding family dwellings is because the measure is designed to discourage seeing housing as an investment. Instead encourage people focus their investing in productive areas of the economy. People buying a home to live in doesn't skew the property market and investment markets that way like people who own a few investment houses does. Most proposals in this area have a similar clause.

I am thinking of health practitioners who are a step down from a practice nurse. More someone who can give some general advice and direct people to the correct practitioner. Perhaps give some general tips. Our PHO has some but I think it would be good to make them the regular first contact point for the health system for people. It would take some load off GPs and assist people getting in touch with the appropriate service sooner. They are not nurses or doctors. Often people don't need to actually see a GP to resolve something or when they do they are not able to accurately describe their issue to them. Having a more casual first contact point who can help will take some of the load off the GPs and nurses.

I would flip it around and say better trained people especially in terms of STEM need to be attracted to teaching as a career option. At the moment NZ has a real shortage of Maths teachers. Partly because if someone finishes uni with a qualification in that area, there are easier, better paid jobs actively recruiting. This in turn means the next generation of students are not getting an ideal education in Maths, leading to a shortage of graduates in that area. They key thing they are finding with teachers leaving the profession is the workload is too high, especially in terms of the non-teaching things which have been added to their role.

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#2977651 5-Oct-2022 11:32

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sen8or:

More investment in frontline staff across healthcare, police and education, paid for by a reduction in bureaucracy.

Change in education to teach life skills at age appropriate levels, including things like budgeting for normal cost of living expenses, a breakdown on the costs of raising a family (each child costs x$ per year), how to plan for a future etc

Change in student loan scheme so that those that stay and work in NZ are rewarded for contributing back to society (1/2 current contributions for salaries under a certain level with capital rebate after x years of paying tax).

Elimination of race based policies.

Race based policies ????

Like the cost of tertiary education being beyond Maori and Pacifica families being able to afford it ?

Like accepting Maori have rights, have language, have culture, but its acceptable to force the one you are comfortable with onto them because "everyone speaks english" ?

My step kids are 1/2 Samoan, the step daughters husband is Maori, english is his 2nd language. We will be learning Maori along with our grandchild, he deserves ALL of his heritage AND all we can give him of ours, he will be richer because of it.

OUR discomfort is part of the price we are willing to pay.

Raced based policies are there to counteract the normalised raced based policies that hold them back.

There are plenty of non maori/pasifika families that can't afford tertiary education, why shouldn't they be accounted for in an aid policy / package? Or, why should someone get more based solely on race, not on need?

Race based policies may be well intentioned, but two wrongs do not make a right.

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#2977652 5-Oct-2022 11:32

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I am thinking of health practitioners who are a step down from a practice nurse. More someone who can give some general advice and direct people to the correct practitioner. Perhaps give some general tips. Our PHO has some but I think it would be good to make them the regular first contact point for the health system for people. It would take some load off GPs and assist people getting in touch with the appropriate service sooner. They are not nurses or doctors. Often people don't need to actually see a GP to resolve something or when they do they are not able to accurately describe their issue to them. Having a more casual first contact point who can help will take some of the load off the GPs and nurses.

I'm not sure about this idea. I don't know, I just have doubts. The problem is it adds another layer for the patient to work through. Most people with a health complaint want to see the person they think can help them. They don't want to have to try to explain their issue over and over again to intermediaries. At least that is how I would feel about it.

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#2977668 5-Oct-2022 11:45

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sir1963:

why exclude primary family dwellings ? Is it because you have a vested interest ?

Health practitioners have those things, they are call nurses and GPs already have them and pay them. The actual issue is lack of funding and bureaucracy. GPs have gone to only working 3-4 days a week so they have the other days to do paperwork. If they are available for 5 days, then end up working 7 days, and then on a hourly basis earn less than the average tradie. New Doctors do NOT want to become GPs in private practice because of this and the inability to have holidays.

The interest free stuff for insulation is already there.

Teachers need to be BETTER trained, particularly in STEM subjects.

Excluding family dwellings is because the measure is designed to discourage seeing housing as an investment. Instead encourage people focus their investing in productive areas of the economy. People buying a home to live in doesn't skew the property market and investment markets that way like people who own a few investment houses does. Most proposals in this area have a similar clause.

I am thinking of health practitioners who are a step down from a practice nurse. More someone who can give some general advice and direct people to the correct practitioner. Perhaps give some general tips. Our PHO has some but I think it would be good to make them the regular first contact point for the health system for people. It would take some load off GPs and assist people getting in touch with the appropriate service sooner. They are not nurses or doctors. Often people don't need to actually see a GP to resolve something or when they do they are not able to accurately describe their issue to them. Having a more casual first contact point who can help will take some of the load off the GPs and nurses.

I would flip it around and say better trained people especially in terms of STEM need to be attracted to teaching as a career option. At the moment NZ has a real shortage of Maths teachers. Partly because if someone finishes uni with a qualification in that area, there are easier, better paid jobs actively recruiting. This in turn means the next generation of students are not getting an ideal education in Maths, leading to a shortage of graduates in that area. They key thing they are finding with teachers leaving the profession is the workload is too high, especially in terms of the non-teaching things which have been added to their role.

Huh, so what you are saying is private rentals should not exist.

Thats fine, I can always have a beach batch and have it as a ghost home, or have an apartment in Surfers. Either way its less use than a rental.

Or I buy 2 properties, demolish them both and have a yard with a swimming pool, there is an obvious tax advantage doing it that way.

The we have the problem of where do school leavers go, divorced people , immigrants, students, people who can not afford to buy, etc etc.

The rental housing market is work over $600 Billion , and it is supplying a service people need. 85% of landlords own ONE property, they are not buying more so they are not skewing the market, that is just populist BS right up with with anti-vax BS. Imagine the cost to Tax Payers paying off $600 Billion + subsidies rent + rates +maintenance, insurance, etc etc etc etc.

It was the government who was out bidding first home buyers, not private landlords. That is another "myth" the government has failed to tell the truth about.

It turns out that "income related rents" via Kainga Ora cost the tax payers more than double what the accommodation supplement does per house.

So the entire economics makes sense to have private rentals.

53% of Kainga Ora rentals do NOT meet healthy homes standards

Private rentals PAY tax, so add onto that the loss of tax income.

As for GPs, we have Healthline, the service is already there, and Pharmacists also off that service. We have mental health phone services, youth services, community nurses, school nurses.

STEM subjects are atrociously taught at many schools, particularly many girls schools.

I have a work friend who won an Australasian Science prize, it took weeks for the girls school to acknowledge it, sports results were far more important.

Her acknowledgement was finally made by some visiting Netballer....

There is NO WAY men feel safe teaching, the risks of false accusation are simply too easy to make and take too long to resolve.

A bunch of girls who attacked shop owners told the security guard if he touched them they would claim sexual assault

Teachers salaries are actually quite good, far better than people with an MSc working in a lab, teachers can earn 50-100% more. Better yet if they have young family they can work at home and save a fortune of child care.

The workload of tertiary staff are MUCH MUCH higher, especially in NZ.

I saw an article that said Academics work an average of 65 hours a week.

I had a friend who was on holiday in Canada visiting grandkids , they photocopied the end of year exams, couriered them to him and expected him to mark them all within a week and courier them back as well as enter marks electronically, while on annual leave. That behaviour would be unacceptable anywhere else.

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#2977739 5-Oct-2022 12:50

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STEM subjects are atrociously taught at many schools, particularly many girls schools.

I have a work friend who won an Australasian Science prize, it took weeks for the girls school to acknowledge it, sports results were far more important.

Her acknowledgement was finally made by some visiting Netballer....

There is NO WAY men feel safe teaching, the risks of false accusation are simply too easy to make and take too long to resolve.

A bunch of girls who attacked shop owners told the security guard if he touched them they would claim sexual assault

Teachers salaries are actually quite good, far better than people with an MSc working in a lab, teachers can earn 50-100% more. Better yet if they have young family they can work at home and save a fortune of child care.

The workload of tertiary staff are MUCH MUCH higher, especially in NZ.

I saw an article that said Academics work an average of 65 hours a week.

I had a friend who was on holiday in Canada visiting grandkids , they photocopied the end of year exams, couriered them to him and expected him to mark them all within a week and courier them back as well as enter marks electronically, while on annual leave. That behaviour would be unacceptable anywhere else.

Mate you have no idea. As a male teaching STEM in a girls school I feel very safe. Way safer than I did in a co-ed school were I was literally assaulted in the classroom and the student was stood down for two weeks before returning. Our academic results are also very very good.

Pay scale for teachers. Caps out at $90,000 with no option to go higher (unless you teach less). What teachers are teaching from home? How would that work?

https://www.ppta.org.nz/collective-agreements/secondary-teachers-collective-agreement-stca/part-4-remuneration-your-pay/

Your antidotal story about the lecturer doesn't make sense. Why would annual leave be approved when exams are due to be marked and results published? Why would they even consider taking leave at that time?

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#2977743 5-Oct-2022 13:00

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Huh, so what you are saying is private rentals should not exist.

Thats fine, I can always have a beach batch and have it as a ghost home, or have an apartment in Surfers. Either way its less use than a rental.

Or I buy 2 properties, demolish them both and have a yard with a swimming pool, there is an obvious tax advantage doing it that way.

The we have the problem of where do school leavers go, divorced people , immigrants, students, people who can not afford to buy, etc etc.

The rental housing market is work over $600 Billion , and it is supplying a service people need. 85% of landlords own ONE property, they are not buying more so they are not skewing the market, that is just populist BS right up with with anti-vax BS. Imagine the cost to Tax Payers paying off $600 Billion + subsidies rent + rates +maintenance, insurance, etc etc etc etc.

It was the government who was out bidding first home buyers, not private landlords. That is another "myth" the government has failed to tell the truth about.

It turns out that "income related rents" via Kainga Ora cost the tax payers more than double what the accommodation supplement does per house.

So the entire economics makes sense to have private rentals.

53% of Kainga Ora rentals do NOT meet healthy homes standards

Private rentals PAY tax, so add onto that the loss of tax income.

As for GPs, we have Healthline, the service is already there, and Pharmacists also off that service. We have mental health phone services, youth services, community nurses, school nurses.

You are being disingenuous. No one has said that private rentals should not exist. The reason why capital gains should be attached to investments and not non-investment purchases such as the family home is to make property investment equitable with other forms of investment. If you buy shares (trading)/gold/cryptocurrency and sell them for a higher price you pay tax on that. Hell we already have a capital gains tax on investment property the bright line test.

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#2977752 5-Oct-2022 13:17

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Your antidotal story about the lecturer doesn't make sense. Why would annual leave be approved when exams are due to be marked and results published? Why would they even consider taking leave at that time?

Since you are a teacher I assume you meant anecdotal above and were sabotaged by auto-correct. Just thought I would point it out.

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#2977759 5-Oct-2022 13:41

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sir1963:

STEM subjects are atrociously taught at many schools, particularly many girls schools.

I have a work friend who won an Australasian Science prize, it took weeks for the girls school to acknowledge it, sports results were far more important.

Her acknowledgement was finally made by some visiting Netballer....

There is NO WAY men feel safe teaching, the risks of false accusation are simply too easy to make and take too long to resolve.

A bunch of girls who attacked shop owners told the security guard if he touched them they would claim sexual assault

Teachers salaries are actually quite good, far better than people with an MSc working in a lab, teachers can earn 50-100% more. Better yet if they have young family they can work at home and save a fortune of child care.

The workload of tertiary staff are MUCH MUCH higher, especially in NZ.

I saw an article that said Academics work an average of 65 hours a week.

I had a friend who was on holiday in Canada visiting grandkids , they photocopied the end of year exams, couriered them to him and expected him to mark them all within a week and courier them back as well as enter marks electronically, while on annual leave. That behaviour would be unacceptable anywhere else.

Mate you have no idea. As a male teaching STEM in a girls school I feel very safe. Way safer than I did in a co-ed school were I was literally assaulted in the classroom and the student was stood down for two weeks before returning. Our academic results are also very very good.

Pay scale for teachers. Caps out at $90,000 with no option to go higher (unless you teach less). What teachers are teaching from home? How would that work?

https://www.ppta.org.nz/collective-agreements/secondary-teachers-collective-agreement-stca/part-4-remuneration-your-pay/

Your antidotal story about the lecturer doesn't make sense. Why would annual leave be approved when exams are due to be marked and results published? Why would they even consider taking leave at that time?

And yet I know others who refuse to see any student by themselves.

MSs graduates teaching in Labs etc as well as working in research tops out at your grade 7 if not 6.

And yes that staff member had very good reasons. I don't care if you believe me or not.

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