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Originally Posted by freebeard
My friends who live upriver want it to be that way. But they can wish in one hand....
Hereabouts we're teetering on the edge of a dystopia. We can hear the Cavalry's trumpets but they haven't come around the bend. A much better situation than your Oztralian neighbors. How's that new Prime Minister working out?
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I liked the outgoing Labour government. I had one significant policy disagreement with the incoming National government, which was negotiated out while they were forming their coalition. Overall I feel just about equally happy with the incoming government.
The incoming National (center right) government wants to increase healthcare spending and hire more nurses and doctors, to give the middle and lower classes a very slight tax cut, and to give rebates to families who pay for child care (to get more people into the workforce), and to streamline a lot of consent processes, such as for building houses.
The policy I didn't care for was to open NZ houses above $2,000,000 to foreign buyers, and to tax foreign transactions heavily, to raise funds to pay the Covid spending down faster. My opinion was that it would cause an upward pressure on lower cost homes, and I haven't yet bought a house here. The coalition ACT and NZ First parties vetoed this policy.
As for the PM himself, he seems alright. He did a cooking show as part of his campaign, which gave a glimpse into his personal life and views outside of work.