y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 15/12/2024it seems to me that when governments gave universal cheques to seniors, their material hardship went down drastically. 100
y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Some thing I would add to the Greens' new plan (including their other policies)? #nzpol -Free/Further Discounted Public Transport -A plan to further reduce free carbon credits -Reconsider moving from the ETS to a border-adjusted carbon tax -Consider a carbon dividend -Expand Warming-Up-Homes 081
y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024How can the policies in the Greens' new plan improve? #nzpol -Return agricultural ETS revenue to regions/provide double credits to methane reducing activities -Be more open to or at least about GE R&D -Consider a different tax mechanism for the Clean Car Discount -Reconsider the Jobs Guarantee 020
y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024-Green infrastructure plan:✅ -Agriculture in the ETS:✅, though an idea I might push is to use the revenue to provide additional credits for agricultural emissions reduction -Clean Car Discount:✅, but the revenue mechanism could be more elegant -Green Jobs Guarantee:❔, highly highly skeptical #nzpol 2186
y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Low-And-Middle-Income Tax Credit: ❌ They don't show how this works right now, but it works like an EITC, which sucks. Further, it's not shown on the graph, but because the LMITC is deducted at 8%, the marginal rate for between $48000 and $58000 increases to 25.5% only with taxes, which also sucks. 120
y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 07/12/2024#nzpol Any of you ever heard of the parabole of the blind men and the elephant? I'm considering making a political cartoon about that, but with politicians (or party voters?) as the blindmen and the issue of housing as the elephant. 260
y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 06/12/2024and you seem to be opposed to increasing them 200
y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 06/12/2024There's probably some major differences in methodology here but y'know hopefully my point still stands. 120
y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024@bernardchickey.bsky.social @ericcrampton.bsky.social we gotta make this happen at some point #nzpol #econ 140
y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024data.ipu.org/parliament/N... www.stats.govt.nz/information-... 120
y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Labour really ought to run on benefit reform. The red line represents the returns for increased hours of work for a single mother, taking into account almost all relevant benefits, assuming average income. #nzpol 1111
y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 04/12/2024To be honest on a CGT, it'd probably be a net positive, but it isn't as though any CGT proposals in NZ would generate a truly transformational amount of revenue, especially not in the first parliamentary term unless we get people to pay tax on their previous capital gain. 120
y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 04/12/2024For anyone interested, here's a drawing i did of him in like 5 minutes just now, showing how'd i'd approach him today 010
y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Would probably be timely to post this drawing I did of Yoon about two years ago. It's not very good, especially given he's my dad's ex-neighbour (tru facts!) 120
