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Steffen

@steffenrusten.bsky.social

Struggling to take life seriously. Politics. Music. Coffee. Occasional sports-ball (Arsenal, Phoenix, Stabæk). 🇳🇴🇳🇿

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Steffen@steffenrusten.bsky.social · last mo.

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.nzYourTax 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
Steffen@steffenrusten.bsky.social · last mo.

Making it easy to check the policy behind any number, for whatever household you model. That was the whole point of YourTax.nz. It doesn’t say ‘low-tax good’ or ‘high-tax bad’. It shows what each party’s policy would do and links the source. It doesn’t exist in a vacuum, you bring the values.

Steffen@steffenrusten.bsky.social · last mo.

Making it easy to check the policy behind any number, for whatever household you model. That was the whole point of YourTax.nz. It doesn’t say ‘low-tax good’ or ‘high-tax bad’. It shows what each party’s policy would do and links the source. It doesn’t exist in a vacuum, you bring the values.

Explore every party’s tax plan

See the dollar change under each party’s announced tax plan, for any situation, compared with current law.

yourtax.nz

Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard)@alans-world.bsky.social · last mo.

You are a star! Yeah, it proved *quite* useful for a couple of people I was chatting with the other day, glad to hear it's back in action — *very* useful to have the actual policy announcements linked too, it's hard info people can follow up that can't be dismissed as easily as 'just your opinion'.

Steffen@steffenrusten.bsky.social · last mo.

"So that's my pitch. If you're left, vote left. But if you've got a dad or an uncle or a nana or an occasional-beers friend who's a decent person despite always disappointing you with their vote, point them towards a new Opportunity." www.emilywrites.co.nz/should-you-v...

Should you vote for the Opportunity Party?

⁉️For a while now, folks have been asking me that exact question. I've been surprised to hear from Green voters who are considering voting TOP. I have publicly said I don't like TOP. I view them as ce...

emilywrites.co.nz

Steffen@steffenrusten.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Seems the National Party is using the New Lynn electorate (soon to be Waitākere) as an anti-choice base. Paulo Garcia, the current MP, is staunchly anti-choice. He's retiring. The candidate picked to replace him, Agnes Loheni, is anti-choice too.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Fashion tip of the day: To deal with clothes moths, fill your wardrobe with thousands of tiny spiders, the moth's natural predator. To deal with the spiders, fill your wardrobe with scorpions. To deal with the scorpions, fill your closet with RFK Jr. This way, you avoid harmful chemicals.

Steffen@steffenrusten.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Watched a @hankgreen.bsky.social talking about why making intelligence more abundant won't help problems that require wisdom. Intelligence helps you get what you want. Wisdom tells you what to want. It's not a technical gap. AI won't solve any crisis where we have the solution but not the will.

Steffen@steffenrusten.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm good with AI being used for 'simple' social copy, email copy, SEO blogs etc. I say this as someone who has made a living off that stuff. I've experienced absolutely broken economics that marketing/comms agencies depend on. Let AI reform that world, and leave the creative to humans.

Steffen@steffenrusten.bsky.social · last yr.

Received an email from our building manager to all the tenants in our building. A building built next to a major train line. It advised people that management, in response to residents' concerns about train noise, had raised "formal complaints with Metro Trains and the Public Transport Ombudsman."

The Australia Institute@australiainstitute.org.au · last yr.

A major cause of rising house prices has been increased demand from investors. Our research shows restricting negative gearing to newly built housing and scrapping the capital gains tax discount would reduce speculation and allow more first home buyers to get into their own home.

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