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  1. OMG somebody slap me. I think I kind of agree with #MatthewHooten here. 😬

    "Now we just heard form a very senior Labour party person - Kieran McAnulty, a potential [future] leader ... - and they don't want to raise taxes. The only tax they want to raise is the CGT, and they want to spend all that on doctors visits. So ... We're trapped."

    thedailyblog.co.nz/8pm-live-to

    That said, I disagree with the claim he snuck in ahead of this.

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  2. "... the very success of globalisation, the very success of free market capitalism, in creating global wealth - transferring jobs from rich countries to poor countries quite often ..."

    #MatthewHooten, 2026

    iheart.com/podcast/1300-the-br

    This is either ignorance or propaganda. What corporate-driven globalisation did was *move* wealth, not create it. Mainly from working people to the 1%; inequality and the billionaire population have both increased rapidly since the 1980s.

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    #globalization