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Stephen Hill

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Cool - so for $20 a week all I needed to do was fire 5,000 public servants, get rid of free prescriptions and subsidised public transport, disestablish the Māori Health Authority, and borrow a couple of billion dollars a year more. Alternatively for $20 a week I could have had all of those things.

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Earl Mardle - Governance by Death Cult - You in?'s avatar Earl Mardle - Governance by Death Cult - You in? @rlmrdlnz.bsky.social
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Pffftt I can do all that for $1.12c a week

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Toast Conger's avatar Toast Conger @toastfloats.bsky.social
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Wait. I'm filtering the budget stuff through a bsky kikorangi filter. Are you telling me that all of this is going to amount to less than my weekly sushi spend?

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Chris Miller's avatar Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.bsky.social
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That last paragraph is so vital. Tax is an incredibly cheap way of providing a huge variety of services because of the sheer scalability of doing it at a nation-wide level.

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Shawn's avatar Shawn @swampy-kiwi.bsky.social
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Yeah, no 3 waters will put my rates up by more than $20 a week so win win all round. 🤦‍♂️

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ADK's avatar ADK @andrewdk.bsky.social
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What happened

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