Government completes its 100 Day Plan; Here is what it has done

The key word there is 'likely', thats your forecast into the future. You do not know.

Now look back at Nationals government and how NZ has become unaffordable for the average NZer. That is the reality of the NZ we live in thanks to this National government, that look after the few.

Spock says, “Logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.”

Wish National watched Star Trek. Instead they watched Wall Street.

"The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind."

Thats how a few sound on here, me me me, and greed is good.

Hey I love money as much as the next person, but I still have drive through the traffic, I still walk on the streets of Auckland where there are homeless people, I still buy beer thats 10 bucks a small bottle, my kids still go to hospitals, my kids will need to buy their first house which are equivalent to New York and London prices on pathetic wages, in Auckland. New Zealand has gone to places where I never thought it would go under Nationals watch.

Are you from the UK Sentinel? If so I can guess our low population attracted you here. Most NZers have zero interest in being like the UK. We used to be able to drive around our cities at anytime of the day. When National won power from Labour we had just 9 billion of dept and on similar wages houses cost 1/2 as much. Immigrants have enriched our culture but not added to our export earnings.

Full enough, is probably what most of us reckon, full enough.

The UK is overflowing with traffic jams in all parts of the country, rubbish on the beaches, train journeys that can be full to the rafters, air pollution that cause sickness, towns that are unrecognisable from 50 years ago, a NHS that cant cope. That list goes on.

Maybe i have too many expectations from the new Government.
This was one of their key issues during the election.If they have sat on their hands for nine years knowing full well that this was going to be an election issue then shame on them.
Surely consultation with councils building suppliers etc could have taken place prior to election and then launch into it right away..Might sound to simple to be achieved,maybe Govt will just continue to move slowly.

Politicians aren't interested in understanding unintended consequences, ...higher order effects.

Ex Expat, then you have one less reason to moan and groan over the alleged $100K you quote "begrudgingly" pay in tax. Anyway, why be in a hurry to repay his interest free student loan with money that could earn interest? Is he earning over 19K?

XX, you're in danger of a bad case of premature curmudgeonhood.

I'm going to steer clear of your lawn.

It also provides an incentive for everyone - including those that don't have the capability to attend high quality tertiary education when they would often be better off in trade employment.

Nothing labelled free is generally valued - while it may be a populist approach - a so called free education makes no sense whatsoever and cannot stand up to rigorous logical analysis.

However, it hasn't devalued degrees in places such as Germany. As opposed to having lax academic and entrance standards and using expensive fees to discourage some from university, why wouldn't it be more beneficial to a country to invest in funding tertiary education but have high academic and entrance standards?

Let's use rigorous logical analysis.

Using only the cost of a degree to discourage participation doesn't seem the best approach...Especially while we're likewise devaluing the value of degrees by trying to turn our institutions into international businesses, and are passing people we shouldn't be in order to get those dollars.

What motivates higher fees apart from the desire for lower taxes for oneself? Seems to be the primary motivation for those who benefited from free or low cost university to now demand young people pay much higher fees. Which while logical for the one benefiting from both free/low cost education and lower taxes, is a bit naff of them.

unless you have a magic ball, how do you know its only 4%, the form national created only measures tax , not who owned what as they did not want us to know.
as for this government why have they not put a register in place so we really know who owns what and where.
as an example queenstown would have a very high proportion of overseas owners, is that a bad thing, for houses yes, for serviced apartments no, as one takes away stock for housing locals and workers while the other supplies stock for visitors.
so how do you frame policy without knowing the real picture

notevenabrain.

Rick, I need no grounding whatsoever. Of the two major parties I have no doubt that the National Party was the best to lead us through the GFC and more than a few earthquakes without forgetting the social responsibility and keeping the tax payers in mind.

It absolutely amazes me that any of you see Taxinda as the way forward. She has done nothing notable in her 37 years. Anyone who has undertaken behavioural interviewing would never give her the job as she would struggle to point to any examples of leadership apart from the socialist youth group . She reminds me of a few primary school teachers I had the misfortune to have to spend time with each school report season. How you all believe she is the best person out of 4,500,000 people in this country to lead us is beyond belief.

Hah but a whole lot closer to a solution than National's pathetic denial of the problem.