Great write-up.
In fact, the line “Labour and National had broadly similar fiscal approaches…” is worth repeating.
So the default position we should be applying to the current government is – where is all the evidence for the claims that Luxon is making?
I don’t think that way about property. I think it would be better to think about property as a right to use; and once you’re not using it, or not able to use it to its fullest that right should revert back to the community. Life’s only hard for retirees because we choose to leave people to the luck of what they accumulated during their life time. We could choose to take care of everyone if we wanted to.