Christopher Luxon, New Zealand Prime Minister 2023

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#3427595 23-Oct-2025 21:53

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Handle9: read the full article it's one of 47 properties where the council clearly screwed up the valuation. There were 47 applications and all 47 got accepted. The decreases in valuation were between $900k and $5.8 million. The council has also told the owners of the other properties on the beach they may revalue their properties.

Regardless it looks bad and continues the image of him being out of touch.

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#3427598 23-Oct-2025 22:01

This is geekzone. Please quote from the source material. As I understand recent events, property values in many places dropped significantly after the council rating estimates. I'd guess there are more than 47 cases of that around the country.

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#3427653 24-Oct-2025 05:50

SaltyNZ:

Handle9:

The decreases in valuation were between $900k and $5.8 million.

Wow, someone cocked up big time...

It looks like robovaluations that got skewed because some McMansions nearby got sold for a gazillion dollars.

Oh no!

Anyway....

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#3427818 24-Oct-2025 22:19

https://archive.ph/02mDA

Economists can make soothing platitudes that the OCR has dropped, commodity prices are strong and job ad numbers are slowly increasing, but household budgets are being suffocated with 19.3% increases in power, water and rates bills, while food prices “only” increased 4.1% in the year to September 2025, the smallest rise since April.
Amid this economic-bumping-along-the-bottom strides Luxon, all over-promises and under-delivery, whose political instincts are more sugar-coated hoping-and-praying than any demonstrable action plan.
No wonder when voters were asked whether they agreed with the statement, “Christopher Luxon and the National Party have lived up to the promises that they made at the last election”, 47% disagreed and 25% agreed, with 8% unsure and 20% neither, a net -22% rating.

Political commentator Janet Wilson feels that Luxon has now become a liability for the National Party. If things continue on their current trajectory, she may well be right.

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#3428238 27-Oct-2025 15:08

Luxon is only doing what the National party 'really really want' ?
Even buckling to ACT, in the end they can blame ACT while still giving them a free seat.
Plus they get what they want while deflecting blame.

So is it National more National core or Luxon thats the problem.
Collins might crush more cars but it would be the same stuff really.

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#3428247 27-Oct-2025 17:02

Obviously fake/photoshopped, but I still got a laugh out of this one 😀

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#3428266 27-Oct-2025 20:06

Nah, giving Luxon too much credit there.

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#3428333 27-Oct-2025 22:57

I keep wondering what this government has solved that the previous one didn't.

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#3428337 27-Oct-2025 23:16

My take on it is they mostly just seem to be mostly about undoing everything the previous government did, whether it was good or bad. Yes, Labour did some stuff last term that I don't think added much value, but this government just seems hellbent on undoing everything done previously.

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#3428350 28-Oct-2025 07:16

And I have to admit, they've been super effective at THAT.

I think they're a bit rattled though. When Labour announced their largely detail-free investment fund policy a week or so ago, National immediately panicked and fell back on ol' faithful, and reminded us about moar roads, everyone!

it will be interesting to see how they attack the CGT Labour announced this morning given there are now significantly more people in favour than against.

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#3428358 28-Oct-2025 08:15

quickymart:

My take on it is they mostly just seem to be mostly about undoing everything the previous government did, whether it was good or bad. Yes, Labour did some stuff last term that I don't think added much value, but this government just seems hellbent on undoing everything done previously.

Not really. The policies are 95% the same, it’s all nibbling around the edges.

Given Labours new CGT policy is profoundly half arsed in concept and again entirely absent in detail there will likely again be minimal change if there is a change in government.

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#3428359 28-Oct-2025 08:21

SaltyNZ:

it will be interesting to see how they attack the CGT Labour announced this morning given there are now significantly more people in favour than against.

It won’t be hard. It’s another half baked policy with zero detail.

How much will it raise? No costings. How much will the free doctors visits cost? No costings.

It only applies to residential and commercial property which both have had negative capital gains for some time while other asset classes continue to grow like crazy.

It’s another prematurely released half arsed policy that won’t achieve much of anything

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#3428364 28-Oct-2025 08:53

Rikkitic: I keep wondering what this government has solved that the previous one didn't.

More holiday highways?

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#3428365 28-Oct-2025 08:54

Willis on RNZ this morning saying it is an attack on business (Auckland Uni professor of tax law who helped write it: no, it does not apply to businesses except for any land they may own) and the incredibly valuable economic powerhouse of property investors (people who would like to own the home they live in: oh crap, I only just pawned my tiny violin for rent).

She also questioned how this would help people see a GP when waiting lists were so long. Incredibly, Hipkiss didn’t think to ask any variation on ‘and who is in charge of fixing GP waiting lists right now, Minister?’

So yeah an entirely predictable response and no push back from RNZ.

EDIT: for clarity, the tax law professor was on about half an hour later.

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#3428366 28-Oct-2025 09:00

gzt:
Rikkitic: I keep wondering what this government has solved that the previous one didn't.

More holiday highways?

Smaller, less capable ferries costing more money and delivered later with a capability gap in between.

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