There is an unspoken promise between the neoliberal State and the untaxed capital gains private landlord class that the neoliberal State never builds enough State Houses to alleviate housing desperation so that the untaxed capital gains private landlord class can exploit that housing desperation ON TOP OF getting a $1.5Billion annual subsidy in the form of the Accommodation Allowance EVERY SINGLE YEAR!
So the neoliberal State work hand in glove with the interests of the untaxed capital gains private landlord class to constantly keep desperation in the Housing market by never building enough State Houses WHILE handing taxpayer funded subsidies to the untaxed capital gains private landlord class!
This rigged casino where Landlords can constantly use their own debt to buy more property and out leverage first time home buyers just adds insult to injury.
On top of this, ACT and National want to give that same untaxed capital gains private landlord class the power to evict you at will so they can kick out the smelly domestic renters and exploit the new 100000 migrant workers coming into the country, remove all the healthy home and environmental regulations and put back in place the tax loopholes that benefit the untaxed capital gains private landlord class.
On top of this, the Real Estate pimps are donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Right and are dangling the promise of house prices jumping 20% if National and ACT win.
The Housing Crisis is a political decision and you as renters should be incandescent with motherfucking rage at how this has been allowed to continue!
We have a class war this election but none of the political vocabulary on the Left to fight it  because Identity Politics has replaced Class.
Pure Temple alienation over Broadchurch solidarity.
The minefield of cancel culture Social Justice over the collective power of Economic Justice!
Since 2013, there have been over 405 workplace deaths in NZ.
There are only 550 Worksafe Staff for a working population of 448 000.
There are only 37 inspectors of rental properties for 300 000 terrible rentals.
There are only 82 labour inspectorates who are supposed to police hundreds of thousands of migrant worker exploitations!
I’m not looking for Socialism from Labour, just basic regulated capitalism!
Nationals 3 biggest donors (Hart, Mowbray and Bolton) have a combined net worth of 15 billion!
The Bottom 50% of NZ has 23 billion.
The top 5% of NZers own roughly 50% of NZs wealth, while the bottom 50% of NZers own a miserable 5%!
IRD proved NZ Capitalism is rigged for the rich and Bernard Hickey calculates that if we had a basic capital gains tax in place over the last decade, we would have earned $200billion in tax revenue.
$200billion would have ensured our public infrastructure wouldn’t be in such an underfunded ruin right now!
There are 14 Billionaires in NZ + 3118 ultra-high net worth individuals with over $50million each, why not start start with them, then move onto the Banks, then the Property Speculators, the Climate Change polluters and big industry to pay their fair share before making workers pay more tax!
Bread and Butter cost of living pressures are what the electorate want answers to, and that’s where the Left need to step up and push universal policy that lifts that cost from the people.
The Commerce Commission is clear that the Supermarket Duopoly should be broken up and the State should step in and provide that competition.
We need year long maternity leave.
We need a nationalised Early Education Sector that provides free childcare for children under 5.
We need free public transport.
We need free breakfast and lunches in schools.
We need free dental.
We need 50 000 new State Houses.
We need more hospitals, more schools and a Teachers aid in every class room.
We need climate change adaptation and a resilient rebuilt infrastructure.
We need all these things and we need to fund them by taxing the rich who the IRD clearly showed were rigging the system.
That requires political courage and there is none!
No one is willing to fight for tomorrow, they merely want to pacify the present!
As a nation we will face some of the toughest choices and decision making  outside of war time and that means you must press those bloody MPs to respond to real policy solutions and make those buggers promise to change things and you can’t do that if you hand your vote over before the bloody election!
Keep demanding concessions and promises for your vote right up until midnight before election day AND THEN cast your vote!
We only get 1 chance every 3 years to hold these politicians feet to the fire and they only care before the election, so force real concessions out of them before you elect them.
This election is going to be too important to just let politicians waltz into Parliament without being blistered by our scrutiny.
Demand real concessions from them and THEN vote on Election Day.
2023 Election will be a vote for the least worst outcome
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2023 will be not be a class war election because Chris Hipkins has already thrown the fight.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/488777/no-cyclone-levy-capital-gains-or-wealth-tax-in-budget-pm-chris-hipkins
We don’t need more state houses
We need more people owning houses
The Real Estate Pimps hate Tennant’s. Would rather every house was a ghost house, that they can sell over priced quickly.
Least worst? – picking a nicer flavour of bullshit IS the probem.
I want to add that Robert Kennedy and (my particular hope for something better) Cornel West have both entered the US presidential race in the US. Both have deliberately bypassed the mainstream media in doing so, both are citing its stranglehold control and manipulation of, (rather than reportage of), information as being the reason for bypassing it. Both are already talking about issues that are not allowed to be spoken in the extreme propaganda machine the media has become.
Things are finally getting interesting. The compulsary least-worst non-choice is being strongly resisted internationally. People have had enough. My prediction is that this will be no ordinary election season in NZ. The US is fortunate that one of the calibre of West has stepped into the maelstrom, IMHO. It would be good if these unusual times brought us a genuine left-wing alternative in NZ.
It certainly casts fresh light on the frantic attempts to censor and control speech on the internet – the place both of these leftist candidates are choosing to run their campaigns.
Way, hey, hey, we need to change this blog site’s name to the Johan and Bob show. You both need to get married, you have way to much time on your hands.
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