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@lostofaotearoa.bsky.social
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Don’t follow me. I’m lost. I’m here to read your takes. I will rarely post, occasionally reply but will lean heavily on the like button. Green voting social democrat. Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa.

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Lost @lostofaotearoa.bsky.social · 6m
Labour are centre right these days. Confirmed by Political Compass who have just published their update for the NZ 26 election. www.politicalcompass.org/nz2026
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Lost @lostofaotearoa.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Not who really needed it for sure. They’re very good at delivering what big business wants, but not so much their electorate
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f*male b*tch 🇵🇸 @ahhmandah.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
vote, you little shits. vote because - your landlord will vote - your boss will vote - every nasty little greedy bitcoin bro who thinks women should be assigned to men for sex will vote - anti abortionists will vote - evangelist christians will vote - your racist uncle will vote FUCKING VOTE
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Lost @lostofaotearoa.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The classic ‘jam tomorrow’ strategy but how much of the jam they promised in 2023 get delivered?
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Lost @lostofaotearoa.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Party: Green Electorate: La-bore. No green candidate.
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Lost @lostofaotearoa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Most dyed in the wool Nats voters will still vote Nat, despite thinking that Luxon is as much use as a chocolate fire guard, because Nicola Willis is such a crash hot finance minister. Hold on. I’m being told that’s not true - so why do they still have 1/4 of the electorate in support? Unfathomable
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Lost @lostofaotearoa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That, or pay attention in chemistry at school
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Lost @lostofaotearoa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Do I want to pay more tax? No. Do I want people richer than me to pay more tax? Definitely. It’s an easy sell surely?
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Lost @lostofaotearoa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A vote for Opportunity has an, at least, 50% chance of being a vote for NZ Fitst and ACT. Is it worth the risk? All their good policies are weak versions of Green policies anyway. 💚
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Lost @lostofaotearoa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
These so called white supremacist never look particularly supreme ae?
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Lost @lostofaotearoa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A Labour/National coalition seems to make the most sense right now but if the trend continues they’ll need a third party to form a government 😜
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Lost @lostofaotearoa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pure f*cking vandalism by a bunch of evil c*nts, if you’ll excuse my Anglo Saxon
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Lost @lostofaotearoa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Same roads they promised in 2023 and didn’t build. Dumb policy but probably just empty promises. The fact that a bunch of people will fall for it again just shows that common sense is actually rare.
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Lost @lostofaotearoa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I blame Judith Collins. The people in her old electorate ’thought’ the Mill Road upgrade would solve their traffic woes. It wouldn’t, of course, partly because induced demand would just fill it up and also because of the bottlenecks downstream. But JC campaigned hard on it in 2023.
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Lost @lostofaotearoa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
2023 election: we’ll do Mill Road 2026 election: we’ll do Mill Road 2029 election: we’ll do Mill Road? It’s all just empty promises anyway
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Lost @lostofaotearoa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
As a neighbour of the Mill Road corridor can I just say that we’ll suffer from 3 years of disruption and traffic chaos only to be reminded that induced demand is a thing and traffic will be no better when it’s done. What is reducing traffic is better rail (CRL).
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Lost @lostofaotearoa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Only MPs are entitled to their entitlements…
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Lost @lostofaotearoa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Black sausage
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Lost @lostofaotearoa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Andrew Little set him a very good example but I’m not sure they have anyone with quite so much stardust as JA
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Lost @lostofaotearoa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Andrew Little passed the baton to Jacinda Arden 7 weeks before the election. 9 weeks til the election now. There’s time yet. Maybe he reckons that 7 weeks is lucky
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Lost @lostofaotearoa.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Believe it or not… Richard Thompson John Martyn John Lee Hooker Taj Mahal Queen (at Wembley) Jethro Tull Fairport Convention Deep Purple Portishead Cowboy Junkies
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Lost @lostofaotearoa.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
No ‘new’ taxes but we will go hard at increasing the existing taxes.
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Lost @lostofaotearoa.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“Excuse me, mister, can't you see the children dying? You say that you can help them, you're not even trying Excuse me, mister, take a look around Mister, just look up and you will see what's coming down” youtu.be/zZEGhcekgHw?...
youtu.be
Ben Harper - Excuse Me Mr
YouTube video by SimpleGreatMan
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