Christopher Luxon, New Zealand Prime Minister 2023

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#3442607 11-Dec-2025 08:52

gzt: Luxon's government seems constantly under attack from the right. Former finance minister Ruth Richardson has been involved in a Taxpayers Union campaign against Nicola Willis. The Taxpayers Union wants radical spending cuts

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/581466/taxpayers-union-releases-fudge-taking-swipe-at-finance-minister-nicola-willis

I always thought the Taxpayers Union was a (largely) right-wing crowd, but I guess they must go after governments of any stripe.

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#3442608 11-Dec-2025 08:52

The cynic in me (and yes I should probably read up more) says that anyone that want radical spending cuts means they want radically less money spent on other people.

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#3442621 11-Dec-2025 09:06

gzt: Luxon's government seems constantly under attack from the right. Former finance minister Ruth Richardson has been involved in a Taxpayers Union campaign against Nicola Willis. The Taxpayers Union wants radical spending cuts:

Willis told Richardson to come out and challenged Richardson to a debate. Richardson today accepted the challenge:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/581321/ruth-richardson-agrees-to-debate-country-s-fiscal-position-with-nicola-willis

Old politicians are desperate to stay relevant. They have had their day, times have changed let the younger folks develop their future.

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#3442630 11-Dec-2025 09:38

gzt: Luxon's government seems constantly under attack from the right. Former finance minister Ruth Richardson has been involved in a Taxpayers Union campaign against Nicola Willis. The Taxpayers Union wants radical spending cuts:

Willis told Richardson to come out and challenged Richardson to a debate. Richardson today accepted the challenge:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/581321/ruth-richardson-agrees-to-debate-country-s-fiscal-position-with-nicola-willis

Pretty sad the hardest right government in two decades is being attacked by the even further right for not being hard right enough.

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#3442631 11-Dec-2025 09:39

rb99:

The cynic in me (and yes I should probably read up more) says that anyone that want radical spending cuts means they want radically less money spent on other people.

It's only bad spending when it isn't spent on me.

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#3442643 11-Dec-2025 10:26

Cutting spending on an expensive charter schools program, might be a start ? :-)

Parliamentary salaries rebalanced to where they were decades ago verses teachers, doctors, nurses etc?
A little less public gold in the golden parliamentary and higher salaries retirement fund?

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#3442646 11-Dec-2025 10:39

Or one of my favourites, MP's only allowed to use public health services.

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#3442647 11-Dec-2025 10:59

rb99: Or one of my favourites, MP's only allowed to use public health services

at Middlemore.

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#3442649 11-Dec-2025 11:14

gzt:
rb99: Or one of my favourites, MP's only allowed to use public health services

at Middlemore.

Guess that might be a bit far from The Beehive...

but actually, not such a bad idea (another three dots). Isn't there that long distance train, I'm they'd enjoy its lightening speed.

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#3442707 11-Dec-2025 14:42

In other news, Minister for Digitising Government tells us she does not understand data breaches, without telling us she does not understand data breaches.

"If you were to go and rent a house ... The first thing the real estate agent's going to say is 'where are all your identity documents,' so you end up handing over a copy of your passport, driver's licence, birth certificate, photo-copied and put into someone's filing cabinet."

"You've got no control over that and it's a massive honeypot for someone who is trying to steal identity. This is so much more secure."

Unless, of course, anyone is aware of a real estate agent who stores 5M records in the same filing cabinet which can be stolen remotely from Russia.

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#3442717 11-Dec-2025 15:47

Decarbonising a local NZ business for $880K: corporate welfare.

Rainbow Park was one of the last companies to receive a major grant from the government Investment in Decarbonising Industry (GIDI) fund before new rounds were frozen and the scheme was branded "corporate welfare" by the coalition. EECA covered roughly a third of the cost - about $880,000 - with the nursery borrowing and doing much of the installation work itself.

Underwriting oil and gas exploration which has not turned up anything significant in twenty years for $200,000,000: totally worth it.

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#3442850 11-Dec-2025 20:24

David Seymour achieves something! Growing industrial hemp is now legal in NZ

https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/12/11/hemp-industry-rules-loosened-in-sweeping-law-change,

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#3443008 12-Dec-2025 09:47

gzt:

David Seymour achieves something! Growing industrial hemp is now legal in NZ

https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/12/11/hemp-industry-rules-loosened-in-sweeping-law-change,

And we'll all benefit to the tune of 40 cents a year. Lets hear it for Dave!!

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#3443066 12-Dec-2025 10:26

Heh, look, I'm no slavish devotee of David Seymour but sometimes for inscrutable reasons he is on the right side of history. Anything that lessens our singular dependence on cows and cow derivatives for foreign exports is a good thing.

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#3443083 12-Dec-2025 11:06

Save that 40cents with compound interest a fortune awaits, oh wait there is inflation.
Now we have entered the new age of infinite 'buy the dip' , the markets await. :-)

Hemp provides the greatest yield on same land as food crops, so hold that beer.
China is largest grower, but EU, USA, a good part of South America, Aussie under THC tests can grow it too.
So not without competition.

Potential as a rotational crop if growing food does not go completely out of fashion?

Now if National, ACT had legalized cannabis, then the 'over regulation' and rules melt away.

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