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New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Wait, they want more foreign ownership of real estate?? Are they high lol. That's going to price out every last young person there from homes that's not already priced out.

[–] livus@kbin.social 11 points 9 months ago

Yeah it was straight up one of their biggest election promises.

What can I say, their core base is landlords, boomers, and people who want leopards to eat faces.

[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

They are supported by boomers and farmers both of which own property and are happy to flog it off to the highest bidder. They don't care a jot for the rest of society not having a place to live