1. CONSUMERS paid most of Trump's tariffs, which the Supreme Court ruled were illegal.
But CORPORATIONS will receive the refunds.
Will they pass that cash back to consumers? Or pocket the money?
We asked them.
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I would make a formal complaint tbh
What a bullet Wellington dodged by not electing this corrupt idiot as mayor. It raises questions about the Labour Party's judgement having been associated with him for so long. 😬
I'm genuinely not sure they aren't under-declaring.
I do not understand how the ABSOLUTELY VOLUNTARY destruction of the original ferry replacement is not a massive political scandal?!
It was a reflexive ideological decision that has disadvantaged the country significantly.
yeah, but more money is a good reason to want *more* volunteers, not less. It can compensate but it's way better to have both. You would struggle to be a functional party with just 100 people.
You can absolutely do it as a 100% publicly funded system this way, and it allews for new parties with public support to get funding, too. Personally I don't mind having private money donated to it, but it should still be paid out according to the same calculation as the public funds.
Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.
Early advice from the Minister for COVID-19 Response to Cabinet was that a strong health response was the best economic response. This was repeated in the Cabinet papers of 20, 23, 27 and 30 August, and 6 September. The 20 August 2021 paper set out the evidence officials considered supported that advice. ° New Zealand’s infection and death rates were among the lowest in the world. ° New Zealand’s unemployment rate was at the pre-COVID level of 4 percent, because jobs and businesses had been protected with the wage subsidy. Unemployment in New Zealand peaked at 5.3 percent (whereas in the United States and Canada it rose above 10 percent). ° Economic activity in the March 2021 quarter was 2.4 percent above the previous year. ° The Government was in a ‘strong financial position’ – net core Crown debt stood at 31.2 percent of GDP at the end of May 2021, 8.8 percent lower than the forecast 44 percent (a difference of approximately $40 billion). ‘This gives us options to keep investing to protect New Zealanders and accelerate our recovery’
So Chris Hipkins not only took advice & kept the economy afloat and jobs and businesses alive through #Covid-19, he pushed to keep Kiwis healthy and alive at a time when corpses were piled up across Italy, UK, US, and India.
Kudos @chrishipkins.bsky.social #nzpol #newzealand
5) They killed of the WGTN low emissions transport plan.
6) They cut public transport, walking & cycle funding so they could build more roads
7) Now they want to charge us all a new gas tax to build an LNG import terminal that will expose us to another volatile global fossil fuel market
“Super Mario was based on an Italian man I saw die in an accident on a construction site. I thought to myself, ‘What if that man had been killed by a gorilla, rather than negligence?’ - Shigeru Miyamoto
Happy Mario day!
Lucky that Labour’s clean car regulations and EV subsidy has shifted our domestic fleet to 50% electric reducing the pressure on petrol
Oh wait
Seems fishy, I would be shocked if they could run an entire party with only a hundred actual members
I'm still very keen on a 'voucher' or audited party member system where state funding is made independent of actual vote totals so there are no 'lock-in' effects to it.
While we might wish politicians wouldn't destroy the social fabric for gain, & might wish media quote the report itself to add context when repeating claims, we can at least invite those we know personally on-spreading claims to read aloud key report statements & judge politicians trustworthiness
NZ'ers are paying $3 a litre for petrol. Did Luxon's Govt make this situation worse? Let's check the receipts:
1) They collapsed the EV market in NZ by killing the clean car discount + making fees to import gas guzzling cars nearly 80% cheaper. EV sales dropped 70% in NZ while globally sales rose
Just so people are aware, kids under twelve still can’t get Covid vaccines in New Zealand unless they’re severely immunocompromised. They haven’t had vaccinations since the original batch. New Zealand is currently in its ninth wave of COVID. We’re destroying our kids for no reason.
AOC came out swinging against age verification legislation and somehow the entire tech press seems to not have noticed?
🚨 Louis Theroux reveals that Andrew Tate was too much of a coward to speak to him for his documentary on the Manosphere.
He says Tate sent him a graph of both their Google searches to show how he's more relevant... except it showed that Louis has recently been Googled more than Tate.
"Waymos around the country have been reported to be unable to figure out what to do in emergencies. When approaching emergency areas, they can’t figure out how to respond or where to go. In Austin, Texas, a Waymo recently even blocked an ambulance from getting to the scene of a mass shooting."
This is what local political leadership looks like.
The answer lies in longer term solutions, including the building of more public housing and the resourcing of critical support services.
Instead all we're getting is the criminalisation of poverty.
Outrageously corrupt, prejudiced "science" from the NHS:
- Enforce one particular treatment pathway for years
- Rig your literature survey to exclude that pathway
- Declare that, amazingly, there is "no evidence" for any treatment pathway
- Ban the treatment
- Shrug as people suffer untreated
This govt is definitely quantitatively different to previous ones in its use of urgency, if that's what you mean
If they've got too much legislation to consider maybe they need to declare more sitting days, not urgency everything
I'd love to for instance see a press huddle required for every use of urgency so it can be interrogated by the media. That would seem like a natural 'we want to explain this' when it is urgent and an implicit punishment when Parliament just... didn't schedule necessary legislation early enough.
Wondering how the brakes can get put on this sort of bullshit, including ditching or minimising select committees time without impeding necessary urgent law that may require it 🤔
On a rant: I mean ffs, we have tougher penalties for teenagers who bump into shopfronts on purpose to knick a few tobacco products to pay for their entire families meals in a single week. The victimisation is awful, clearly, but it is not LIFE LONG TRAUMA. Even the former TOP COP got home D? WTAF?!
Crazy cvid years clearly visible... just look at those excessive subsidies to, errrm, keep businesses afloat and support our creaking health system.
Spend on social protections hit 13% of GDP in 2022! Numbers not seen since 2011 🤔. Oh, and in 2025 after RBNZ & Govt tanked the economy.
