‘I’m wealthy and I’m sorted’: PM makes no apology for capital gains on Wellington apartment
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- Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said he anticipated scrutiny over the capital gains from selling his Wellington apartment.
- According to 1News, Luxon is expected to make a capital gain of $180,000 by selling the apartment for $975,000.
- He added that he is not doing something unusual and many PMs, including John Key, have sold their apartments upon moving to the Premier House.
Remember when he claimed the $52000 housing allowance and the Press Gallery said he had ‘misred’ the room.
Luxon didn’t misread the room, the room misred him!
Luxon sees his privilege through his prosperity theology paradigm where he has 7 properties because Jesus loves him!
His accomodation allowance is a prosperity given to him by Jesus – that’s why he took so long to u-turn!
What’s interesting about his refusal to immediately admit mistake and change is that he did it with the EV subsidy as well. While he was damning Labour for the EV Subsidy, he was intending to use it for himself and apparently the rumour is they really had to argue internally against him taking it because it was such a bad look.
He clearly used it for his wife’s car, but his intent to get it for himself and the amount of time it took to convince him was astonishing.
The 7 property Prime Minister just made four hundred and sixty thousand in untaxed capital gains from selling two of his properties while attacking the ANZ Boss for proposing a capital gains tax!
Is this venal self interest or naked self interest?
How is a PM criticising a bank for suggesting a capital gains tax while benefiting directly from the lack of a capital gains tax anything other than class war?
Seeing as Chris is a fundamentalist Christian, what would Jesus do with the sale of those apartments?
Having browsed Scripture, Jesus seems very against owning 7 Properties in the first place.
Here’s a taste:
Matthew 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Mark 10:21 And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
Luke 6:20 And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.
2 Corinthians 9:11 You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God.
Galatians 2:10 Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.
Ephesians 4:28 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.
Jesus seems pretty keen on a capital gains taxes and doesn’t sound like he wants to create loopholes for property speculators.
I don’t think Jesus would cut benefits or abuse the disabled the way National do.
Now the drapes carpets and paint are up to his preferred standards, Luxon has moved into Premier House after a $170 000 spend up, while earning almost as much from property speculation as he does his actual job as PM.
Public Housing Futures has produced a map of stalled and empty Kāinga Ora sites throughout the motu, showing thousands of half-finished or bare land where work has stopped, despite close to 100,000 people being registered as homeless
…isn’t it great that Chris is sorted while his privatisation agenda pushes more homeless onto the streets?
This is the Government YOU voted for NZ.
This crass obscenity is all on you because you were angry at Jacinda for having the temerity to save 20 000 lives during a once in a century pandemic.
Take a long hard look at yourself fellow kiwi, you had your anger and fear manipulated by the Right.
You made your bed, now lay in it with Christopher Fricken’ Luxon.
‘I’m wealthy and I’m sorted’.
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Meanwhile crime has exploded under National…
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/dargaville-likened-to-wild-west-amid-rising-crime-and-lack-of-police/QUUTYMS66ZFENKBNKHAAIM3HWQ/
If you read the story it says crime has been bad for a long time and the ram raiders picture was 2018 .Crime has been a source of fear for a long time and neither party has got on top of it but at least National is trying.
National’s trying by underfunding police? FFS Trevor get a grip!
Plus 1 to that . More cops are buggering off to Oz than being trained.
The rich man in his castle,
The poor man at his gate,
God made them, high or lowly,
And ordered their estate.
All things bright and beautiful ….
Classic, JT, you got it in one. ‘The more things change, the more they stay the same.’
I don’t care if he is rich. I have a problem with being a lying, gutless, tosser. Yesterday he was saying the tax reduction on heated tobacco products was a “trial”! What is he talking about. What’s the control arm? How is it monitored? This again proves the coalition government is not evidence based at all. They often go against actual evidence because they have been sponsored to do so.
And now we have Bryce Edwards writing an article trying to muddy the waters whereby he tries to rope Jacinda Ardern into the story by saying she made a $ 300,000 profit on her home when she sold it.
The big difference, which he failed to mention, was that Ardern sold her private house of residence, compared with Luxon, who is flipping ‘investment properties’ for the sole purpose of capital gain.
This is what happens …wrongly conflating stories to construct a false narrative.
If this is the type of bullshit that Bryce Edwards has been teaching at University, and is also provided the privilige to write about in the mainstream media, then it’s easy to see how so many people become brainwashed and misinformed…it’s a disgrace
Yes, Grant Edwards like many other is looking after his own backside.
Though according to Rebel News, Ardern made Luxon head of AirNZ, and her mate ( their word) Coster, Police Comm ( Christians both) and refused to say why the WEF crowd recently met in Montreal.
and a red neck tried to convince me she had two dairy farms as well .One only has to look up the 2023 list of stuff owned by MPs to see that is another lie from the right wing river of filth
Well at least the PM could now say while in Wellington he lives in a state house…just not one full of black mould and needing multiple repairs.
Baldrick is certainly venal, and a numbskull in some ways–he does not worry about how things look to the “losers and bottom feeders”. Will his capital gain be seen by middle class mortgage holders as a good thing…or will it be taken as a middle finger salute…it will be by renters of overpriced dumps with no chance of their own home.
Stalling Kainga Ora builds is vandalism of the highest order. A part built, not closed in dwelling, will deteriorate–the Atlas network people like Seymour and senior Natzos do not believe in public housing so are prepared to waste millions on their ideological fantasies as per the Cook Strait Ferry debacle.
Dont worry Trevor and Bob the fister are happy that they are paying tax while the skin head gang leader pays none and now lives rent free while 100 kids are in hospital with health issues from not having enough food or living on the streets while mum and dad hold down 3 jobs .
And how long before those children will no longer get hospital care – unaffordable for their parents because privatised health system?
already happening and I see southern cross made a massive loss on the health side of their business because people are signing up ,waiting 2 years then getting 90k worth of heart surgery and the premiums are less than 10k for that time .No doubt they are Luxons mates who know he is going to fuck health again as national always do .
We should be fair to Luxon.
As Prime Minister it would unseemly to say to the nation as a whole, ‘Fuck the rest of you, I’m all right.’
He’s rich because of this…
The Doctrine of Discovery was based upon racist theories that Non-Europeans were not human, and therefore had no property or human rights, and could not safely govern themselves. Based upon that theory, Europeans ignored na�ve property and poli�cal rights, and set up governments on Indigenous lands.
I’m a lumberjack and I’m ok !!!!
As much as those quotations from scripture might be a nice fit in this context, historically they have been used by the Christian church, in its role as a branch of The Establishment, to keep the poor believing that if they meekly accept the crumbs of Capitalism in this life, “God” will make it up to them in the next.
On the money. God, gold and guns! The holy trinity that governs the land of the living, not the spiritual trinity the scriptures would have you believe!
No, it’s not in the TOW, ADA and is it our birthright to have decent health care, housing and education too but it’s disappearing down a black COC hole as will many of our state assets under these arrrrrse holes. The real agenda of privatising our health system has finally come out as will it for the Ferries another transfer of wealth from us the taxpayer to the greedy rich.
On health, fascinating that Key underfunded health for 9 years and to a lesser extent Labour before trying to rectify the situation. Now Luxon has followed the Key model of underfunding health at the expense of not Luxon but the health and well being of those not wealthy and those not sorted…
https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2024/08/28/nz-needs-proper-health-funding–not-crisis-management.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawFpVY5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHa0HjYFPIYfP5n_xss1zfn0BnDwKWIqdQrdByKtHwkiPzPH-fWiyUcOxGQ_aem_gS70zZHZAWm4Q7ZyeQVoaw
A birthright also comes with obligations.The parents need to provide a good stable home with food and clothing. If they cannot do that they need to hold off having children.
There would be more than enough tax welfare if individuals got their act sorted and the only recipients were those in real need due to health or mental state.
and the government should ensure those same parents can have a well paying job to be able to provide for their kids .Just ask those that the government has sacked if they are now able to provide the standard of living for their kids they had before they were fired .There is no excuse for poverty in NZ .
If people were happy with 1 home per family there would be a lot more affordable houses for families to own their own home instead of having the parasite landlord class pushing house prices up so they can bludge of the hard work of their Tennant.
Many people prefer to rent and have the mobility that goes with not owning a house. It is a trick that gets people stuck in one place if they own a home .Most landlords are providing a service much needed by many who could not buy a home due to their life style.If the state built mote homes to rent then the profiteers would leave the market .unfortunately neither party has done this for years.
Back in the 60s and 70s it was possible to buy a house and afford a flexible travel work life. Landlords are serving themselves, I agree that the government needs to supply housing as well but the biggest problem is that “investor” demand has turned housing into a Ponzi scheme (look at the income to house price ratios over the decades) as the illusion of wealth created by rising house prices is just a myth paid for by higher prices for everything else and an extra debt burden on our children. Real investments (farming, manufacturing, knowledge-software) create wealth instead of transferring it from someone else like the residential rental market. If investors stuck to commercial property we would all be better off.
Yes, Gordon and 170k spent on curtains and paint to satisfy the bald one, must be gold paint.
Envy my arrrse im right whose mostly wrong its plain greed and lack of care for the majority of NZers including the dummies that believed his election promises and voted for the liar.
What he is really saying.
Luxon. “your poor, your fucked, don’t care”
He rolls the victims the Good Samaritan helps.
What he is basically saying is “the bottom feeders are not his problem”.
I am alright Jack and I am following the rules.
Dont for get the pre xmas spend up he had so he could have the in laws over for xmas dinner .We even paid for the beds so they could stay the night
Who knew the NACTZIs would rewrite the dictionary too.
Luxon’s brag on his Q3 plan.
We have DELIVERED on 39 of our 43 point plan.
delivery
noun
de·liv·ery di-ˈli-v(ə-)rē
plural deliveries
: the act or manner of delivering something
also : something delivered
NACTZIs-
DELIVERY now means LOSS of – kiwis leaving NZ, loss of jobs, housing , hospitals, food on the table, health access ….
How is it that all these MP’s with investment properties can vote on Bills like the one reducing the brightline test from 10 to 2 years, and reestablishing the interest deductibility claim?
It is such a huge and obvious conflict of interest in laws being made for personal benefit, as shown now by the PM. They should not be able to vote on them.
These clowns are setting you up for a fundamentalist dystopian police state with their fundie schools and indoctrination camps. Their untoward and chaotic meddling and prescriptive narratives towards the state institutions of education, health, welfare, transport, police, corrections and justice. They will erode standards in the name of achievement, erode privacy in the name of protection and erode cohesion in the name of identity. If it weren’t so clumsy and venal, I’d be worried.
nO WONDER i NO LONGER ATTEND CHURCH .I t just a giant ponzi scheme wher ripping people off is encouraged .
Mis reading the room. Needs to be more in touch with the common man. Lucky for him Hipkins is also out of touch.
Give the man a break FGS! How many politicians, local body councilors and business people on the Left (of Centre) – indeed mums and dads and their resourceful kids – have made decent coin from capital gains? As Bernard Hickey is quoted as has saying, little ol’ New Zulind has a pulsing housing market, thank you very much, and an economy tacked on. Whether such level of personal debt – as least for many – is economically sustainable in the long term, well, that’s another story. Whether its morally responsible, well, no.
Many people prefer to rent and have the mobility that goes with not owning a house. It is a trick that gets people stuck in one place if they own a home .Most landlords are providing a service much needed by many who could not buy a home due to their life style.If the state built mote homes to rent then the profiteers would leave the market .unfortunately neither party has done this for years.
No landlords are business people and the so called much needed service provided is designed for one thing only, profit. They are not providing accommodation out of the goodness of their hearts. At least get it right Trevor.
Nothing Christian about this rat.
Don’t know how he can call himself a Christian,they help those in need. His greed is unacceptable, he’s a self entitled bald head dick.
Love how the NZ Heralds right wing Biased Barry has come out and used the word whingers for anyone calling out Luxon an his entitlements…
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/christopher-luxon-vilified-for-his-wealth-and-apartment-sale-barry-soper/KVHZDIBFI5B2BAG2IXDOOO4JDY/
He’d pimp out his wife Heather two plus three Allen to Luxon for favours, if he hadn’t already to Key, such is his right wing values.
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