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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

You can also use yourtax.nz to share an image for any scenario you run, which makes it easy to contrast how each party's policy would treat people in different situations. Data presented neutrally can still communicate values.

YourTax card, NZ Election 2026 tax policy impact, as at 6 Jul 2026. Scenario: a couple with one kid, owning their home. Income $380,000 a year, net wealth $1.9M. Estimated change to after-tax income per year, compulsory KiwiSaver included: ACT no estimate yet, Green Party minus $5,545, Labour $0, National $0, NZ First no estimate yet, Opportunity minus $2,145, Te Pāti Māori no estimate yet. "No estimate" means the party hasn't announced enough to calculate. From yourtax.nz, authorised by Steffen Rusten, hello@yourtax.nz

YourTax card, NZ Election 2026 tax policy impact, as at 6 Jul 2026. Scenario: a couple with one kid, owning their home. Income $380,000 a year, net wealth $5.5M. Estimated change to after-tax income per year, compulsory KiwiSaver included: ACT no estimate yet, Green Party minus $5,545, Labour $0, National $0, NZ First no estimate yet, Opportunity minus $45,895, Te Pāti Māori no estimate yet. "No estimate" means the party hasn't announced enough to calculate. From yourtax.nz, authorised by Steffen Rusten, hello@yourtax.nz

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

fwiw here's a scenario that goes the complete opposite direction. A home-owning couple with $6.8 million in net wealth. Here if you want to check: yourtax.nz/s/hVNiUVHQA

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It's because both the Greens and Opportunity have proposed universal income policies.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Heya, I made some changes today to make it clearer that positive numbers mean more in your pocket, not more tax paid. yourtax.nz/s/HOH0ZkaHv Does this help?

Screenshot of results from https://yourtax.nz showing the potential impacts of different parties tax policies on take home income.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Traffic Engineers do go to school, right? You have to study something to do that job?

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Ended up deciding I'd just do this (link is to www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOPP...)

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Placement, timeline. Placement

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

New addition and wow, she's beautiful. Yumi Zouma - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

Yumy Zouma - (What's the Story) Morning Glory? record. It features a red/cream blend colour.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Make your 100,000th scrobble the same as your first ever scrobble.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

fair call but just to point out that these posts don't work because once you've blocked them the nuke goes kaboom

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

"Simmons’ parents helped, he says, with discipline, by feeding him, and by allowing the pair to live at home with them, paying $100 a week each in board." Always. Every time. Journalism, I wonder why we don't trust it.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Hey look, I want to increase public transport usage as much as anyone but...

Screenshot of Reddit post to r/Urbanism. Title: 'Is this idea too radical?'

Body:

Uhh. I am so desperate to get more people to ride the bus instead of driving in my town that I resorted to offering blow jobs to willing bus riders. My initiative was quite successful and ridership more than doubled.

This has me thinking, to encourage citizens to take the bus instead of driving, what if a municipality established a program that rewards those who ride the bus with free blowjobs. This not only gets cars off the road but it also employs local prostitutes who otherwise don’t have any work. Not only that but the municipality can provide std checks to everyone involved and collect dna and personal information from citizens too.

It’s a little rough around the edges and may not be legal everywhere but tbh it’s not my most radical idea.

EDIT: if you think fucking would be more effective than sucking that is ok with me. Also the sucking/fucking would not take place on the bus and would be totally anonymous.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Why are you parroting Luxon's "back to basics" nonsense? If nothing else, could you please differentiate yourself with your choice of words?

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Very brave use of "the rumours are true" here

Screenshot of Live Nation ad on Twitter. Reads: "The rumours are true 👀
DRAKE is returning to New Zealand for the first time in 8 years!"

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I can tell you right now that it's Friday so I suppose they're not incorrect

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I don't think this is a big "we go to war" moment. This isn't a sign that the Government is about to announce a referendum. Seems to me that officials have been instructed to prepare in case we reach this point, not that this is now more likely than it was a week ago. cc @paullecomtephoto.nz

Text from the Treaty Principles Bill

Commencement

The Bill will come into force if a majority of electors voting in a referendum support it. The Bill will come into force 6 months after the date on which the official result of that referendum is declared.

If a majority of electors voting in a referendum do not support the Bill, it will automatically be repealed.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Use an adblocker app like 1Blocker, and make sure you enable content blockers in the Page Menu on Safari. You have to enable it on a site by site basis. Deals to 99% of stuff.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

"Aucklanders fines for parking in own driveways" like this car, pictured blocking a footpath. 🙃

Stuff article. Headline "‘Money-grab’: Aucklanders fined for parking in own driveways"

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

the vibe to the Swede's one might not be quite of that variety

Contents page from Sweden's 'In case of crisis or war' brochure that's being distributed to all households in Sweden

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

The Lido should be nice: www.lidoliving.co.nz

Render of Lido apartment buildings in Wellington

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Ockham appreciation post (all from ockham.co.nz)

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.

Meme.

Top panel: goose saying: what causes housing to be an inelastic good?

Bottom panel: goose chasing a puffer jacket wearing a person, repeating the same question more aggressively.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

This is a dark data quirk (from: weibo.substack.com/p/111224-zhu...)

I should note here that every time you see a major incident in China, whether it’s a truck driving into a train or wildfires or terroristic attacks like these, there’s a good chance there is precisely 35 people dead. This is because by China’s laws, if a public safety incident causes 36 death or more, than the mayor will get fired. So any more deaths than that, and it just gets reported as 35. Which means we actually have no idea how many people are actually dead.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Underestimating the price would be saying it cost ~$500. Saying you can rent a two bed in Sydney for $200? That’s criminally out of touch from anyone, let alone the Housing Minister.

Screenshot of ABC News article. Headline: NSW Housing Minister Rose Jackson underestimates Sydney rent prices.

Caption: The median rent for a Sydney unit is $720.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Justicia Urbana by Fabián Todorović Karmelić

Artwork titled Justicia Urbana by Chilean artist, Fabián Todorović Karmelić.

The artwork depicts ten people on a bus, people waiting for a bus, and a cyclist, crammed into a small space on the street, while one man in a private automobile enjoys more than enough space.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

This is what happens when you let buildings be built

Chart by Peter Tulip, from https://x.com/peter_tulip/status/1723100175454056882

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