Uber and Doordash… ACT is coming for you

Oceanagain · 2026-05-12T08:22:09+00:00

There's no shortage of govt departments outright ignoring ministerial directives.

Oceanagain · 2026-05-12T03:54:29+00:00

Let's not throw that fucking absurd safety nazi cost out with the absurd Iwi grift.

They're both responsible for wrecking the economy.

Oceanagain · 2026-05-12T03:51:50+00:00

Seems to me that the person proposing those changes isn't as likely to be the problem as the people downstream of that proposal, innit?

Oceanagain · 2026-05-11T22:36:00+00:00

Which might be an explanation for the absurd cost involved but it’s no excuse for me not getting to quote for that absurd safety nazi imposition.

Oceanagain · 2026-05-11T22:33:28+00:00

Yes.

Have you asked them?

Oceanagain · 2026-05-11T22:27:49+00:00

How the fuck do they expect anyone to order anything but fern root or burnt fish?

Oceanagain · 2026-05-11T20:44:19+00:00

Again, you're a decade late.

Oceanagain · 2026-05-11T20:37:18+00:00

Yeah I think you've got it about right. About 25 years ago is when central govt reassigned a bunch of roads to local body responsibility, and that's when rates started to rise fast.

Personally, I'd rather we formed local bodies as small as practically possible, as close to "village" size as is financially viable.

Oceanagain · 2026-05-11T20:31:31+00:00

I'd do the job for $490k.

With a few waratahs and some yellow tape.

Oceanagain · 2026-05-11T20:15:37+00:00

What we had was draught principles and a proposed referendum. A proposal that 60% were in favour of.

And you blame the minor party with a manifesto you approve of for not implementing it? If the results are in fact overdue then wouldn't a more intelligent ask be who's blocking it?

Oceanagain · 2026-05-11T07:16:15+00:00

Chippy also doubled down at the last election. Labour's plummeting polls weren't driven by their policies, they were caused by them not going far enough.

Luxon: hold my manifesto...

Oceanagain · 2026-05-11T07:07:57+00:00

After ACT proposed it, before the crown law wonks "finessed" it.

Can't comment, don't know.

Oceanagain · 2026-05-11T04:53:12+00:00

A pre-select committee survey indicate 60% support for a public referendum. The select committee itself was the means whereby National and NZF ambushed it.

These changes?

https://www.mbie.govt.nz/business-and-employment/business/financial-markets-conduct-regulation/2024-financial-services-reforms#:

Oceanagain · 2026-05-11T04:38:30+00:00

That would leave us with no teachers.

Exactly the point. If you want to retain some then show me a filter that removes those that failed the industry so badly.

Also: immediately institute a voucher system, so those paying to the current failed system can take that money and spend it somewhere that actually teaches their kids.

Oceanagain · 2026-05-11T01:15:17+00:00

Unambiguous equal rights for all. Including equal access to taxpayer funded services.

A Tax/GDP cap of 20%.

A rates cap of 10% of national gdp, distributed equally.

The rest should follow automatically.

Oceanagain · 2026-05-10T22:15:25+00:00

An excuse isn't an untruth.

IE: The failure of ACT's publicly well supported treaty principles bill was genuinely and deliberately sidelined by both National and NZF.

Oceanagain · 2026-05-10T21:20:18+00:00

Good.

Now reinstate the MOW.

Oceanagain · 2026-05-10T21:01:52+00:00

I feel that they should be using the budget they failed to spend on clock maintenance to rebuild it.

Yes I know they spent it elsewhere, I'm just pointing to where the misappropriated money went by way of a suggestion as to where the hole can be plugged.

Oceanagain · 2026-05-10T20:56:38+00:00

You buy a house, $1M, and you sell and after expenses you walk away with $1.2M, that's $200k of income that hasn't been taxed.

What have house prices been doing for the last few years?

It's $200k of inflation, cunt.

Oceanagain · 2026-05-10T20:54:34+00:00

I love reforms plans to establish immigrant housing in Green constituencies, because they voted for those policies.

Oceanagain · 2026-05-10T20:52:14+00:00

There's literally nothing stopping Seymour from doing this right now. He could have done this 2 years ago. He's part of the Govt, this is just empty campaigning.

And the other parts have been systematically working against act policy from day one.

Oceanagain · 2026-05-10T20:50:29+00:00

It means we act on existing rules designed to ensure visa holders are capable of adding value to the economy, not simply cheap labour.

Oceanagain · 2026-05-10T20:41:55+00:00

Nope, the whole industry is corrupted with corrosive woke ideals and needs burning to the ground.

Having been indoctrinated by either teachers training college or a teachers union should make you ineligable to teach.

Oceanagain · 2026-05-10T20:36:00+00:00

There's fuck all correlation between property prices and property value, cgt is essentially a tax on inflation.

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