Whaaaat!

18 Responses to Whaaaat!

1. Lara says:

   November 18, 2014 at 12:54

   baawaahaaaaaaa this tenant, not able to get on to the overheated housing market, is laughing, laughing, laughing. Will the rich, heartless, and greedy landlords now be so smug?
2. tranquil says:

   November 18, 2014 at 15:36

   I wonder if someone will organise a “rates revolt”? I’m sure I’ve heard of such a thing happening before somewhere.

   I’d love to see someone take a lawsuit against the Auckland Council on grounds of “gross incompetence” or “gross mismanagement of ratepayer funds”.
3. mawm says:

   November 18, 2014 at 15:40

   Somebody has to pay for Lyin’ Len’s spendathon. First raise the rateable value of every property in Auckland – it makes everyone feel rich! – then raise the tax on the rateable value. Maybe we’ll get the overhead rail up Queens St for the fat f**ks who can’t walk all that way.

   @ Lara – I guess you won’t be so smug when your rent goes up to cover the increased costs to your landlord. He’ll probably keep the same profit margin……..5% of higher cost translates into a greater profit in dollar terms. So guess who loses.
   • MvL says:

     November 18, 2014 at 15:46

     Agreed….I don’t think “Laughing Lara” has quite thought things through
     • nominto says:

       November 18, 2014 at 21:29

       sorry Lara; if the Landlord can’t get the rent [“investment return or costs”] out of you- they will just sell the property.
4. Cadwallader says:

   November 18, 2014 at 15:58

   Levying rates on the basis of the value of the property is as pointless as gauging a rapists guilt by the size of his penis. The rates do not reflect the value of the goods and services provided by the local authority yet private property owners pay goods and services tax on their rates. (Read: Tax on Tax!)
   • KG says:

     November 18, 2014 at 16:16

     Precisely.
     • Ronbo says:

       November 18, 2014 at 21:33

       I seem to remember an ancient revolution that started over taxes and the battle cry, “No taxation without representation!”

       Of course, these days the battle cry of the Left is, “Taxation without hesitation.”
       • Cadwallader says:

         November 19, 2014 at 04:14

         How about: “Taxation to extermination?”
5. nominto says:

   November 18, 2014 at 22:01

   ooh -fuck it …I could just move 10 km to another district …….mind you – they pay rates for some wanky iwi preservation BS.
   actually I challenged QV a few years back over a increased valuation – I won [at my cost of engaging a valuer and proved my calculations were right]..but this has paid for itself somewhat.
   However ; I should have received compensation in dealing with QV- they were arrogant and typically ignorant of the true meaning of civil service [I bluntly reminded them what it meant-they actually slammed down the phone!]….yep :another useless parasitic apendage.
6. Darin says:

   November 19, 2014 at 00:11

   Property taxes in all forms should be abolished full stop.They are the most immoral,insidious,destructive devices ever devised by the statists.

   Auckland as it seems to me is doing precisely the same things that NYC has done.Create a city with just two classes,the uber rich and the dirt poor.In the next decade it will start looking more and more like Detroit.A small well maintained central core surrounded by dilapidated slums,both morally and financially bankrupt.
7. Carol-Christian Soldier says:

   November 19, 2014 at 01:22

   Life Liberty Property- the original words of the Declaration-
   the founders knew that if those in power (royalty – at that time) could wrest property from the citizenry for any reason – property tax is giving power to the ‘royals”;
   C-CS
   • Carol-Christian Soldier says:

     November 19, 2014 at 01:25

     this belongs here – flag-
     Ahh —and thus the words accompanying the Declaration –

     We will have no king but KING JESUS—

     I like that better=
     as to the Stars and Stripes-BEAUTIFUL!!!
     C-CS
     • Ronbo says:

       November 19, 2014 at 04:24

       Well said, Carol – our Lord and Savior requests 10% of your income for good works…while Caesar demands on pain of imprisonment 40%-50%-60% of your income.
8. Tom says:

   November 19, 2014 at 05:13

   One might if the money was spent wisely,but the blatent waste of this council is mind boggling.Just the other day i read they are going to spend$12 million on a cricket pitch.I cannot in my wildest imagination understand how i cricket pitch can cost the same as 25 homes.Not to mention the state house “art”on the waterfront.Loopy Len will go at next years election…
   • KG says:

     November 19, 2014 at 05:23

     I can’t understand why anybody voted for the prick in the first place, Tom.
     • Darin says:

       November 19, 2014 at 10:43

       One book that should be required reading for any public official,employee or manager is The Logic of Failure by Deitrich Dorner

       http://www.amazon.com/The-Logic-Failure-Recognizing-Situations/dp/0201479486

       He uses computer simulations to observe human behavior in complex situations.In one simulation the participants are selected to the be on the council of a fictional town called Greenvale.The results were that the majority of people when faced with a never ending array of common,everyday problems that any real city would have invariably switched from tackling those problems to taking on simpler pet projects.

       Things like building a new seniors center,or planting flowers in the neutral grounds,or acquiring public artwork-Sound familiar??
       • KG says:

         November 19, 2014 at 11:59

         Sure does.