I return to what I said originally, i.e. Rintoul Street is not a main route, not even to the Eastern suburbs. Most persons traveling to the Eastern suburbs would travel only as far as Waripori Street, which they would turn into and then travel down Russel ...
Yeah but I think he might be onto something, willis will prove to be a weak inept finance minister ! She will if the only reason for tax cuts is because she wants to "keep her promise". A strong minister should be capable of breaking a promise if is deemed...
By way of a final comment on this topic I would ask why cyclists should be denied their cycle lanes simply because there are some who do not have off street parking on their property. In time these persons will either sell up or die off, and with their ...
When traveling to Island Bay these days I travel via Adelaide Road so I don't travel much in Rintoul Street; However recently I had to make a number of visits to Wakefield Hospital, and I must say that driving in Rintoul Street was not a pleasant ...
just continued sniping from the sidelines from a no-local! I don't live in that area now, but I have lived in both Island Bay and Newtown in the past, so I know the area quite well.
the many buses using the road have trouble passing each other when going in opposite directions. With kerbside parking available I'm not surprised.
True, also Imagine what the super fund would be worth had Muldoon and the National party not made the worst economic decision in NZ history and scrapped it. I don't agree. It was a burden on both workers and employers - at least kiwisaver is voluntary - ...
Between Luxford and Riddiford, how many residential properties are there, after one has fitted in Wakefield Hospital, what used to be Athletic Park, an Intermediate school, a couple of churches, and shops at the Northern end. What residences there are ...
I wouldn't regard Luxford Street or Rintoul Street main roads; most traffic between Island Bay and the city would take the Adelaide Road route. However I think Rintoul Street, because of its lower gradient would be a better route for cyclists. So some ...
Cycle lanes are usually placed in main thoroughfares where houses do have offstreet parking, not on backstreets, where the houses without offstreet parking are located. And families who park their cars at the kerb are usually two (or more) car families ...
That isn't a very nice thing to say about Genter, even if she has led to the wrecking of both those peoples' businesses that they spent so long building up. So, even if the development of cycleways is the right thing to do (for the safety of cyclists), we ...
According to Michael Hudson* "free markets" to earlier capitalists meant freedom from rentier interests such as rent and interest rather than markets governed entirely by "market forces". Rentier interests were taking a slice of the pie without ...
The trouble would seem to be that a lot of our city roads were put in place over a hundred years ago when horseback was a major means of transport, and there were very few cars around. The issues that we have today, relating to cycle lanes versus kerbside ...
42 is the meaning of life according to Doug Adams, but 38? I dunno, John, I reckon that's just another number.
I agree. It's one of the best.
Real estate shouldn't be considered part of the economy at all. It doesn't generate wealth of itself; it's just a mechanism for redistributing it. This is true; and "expenses", such as rates, insurance, repairs, etc., are not true expenses since they do ...
MP's are amongst the highest paid people in the country There would presumably be a fair chance a lot of their property ownership would be freehold, which would be a good thing.
Perhaps we should ban April the first since it seems to be a source of misinformation and fake news. April could instead start tomorrow, and we could the give the liberated day to February, a month which seems to be forever short of a day.
I suppose you would say that every war since, I guess, Marathon, constitutes murder; regardless of the causes at stake.
Does Europe have a future? The world economy is fracturing into two opposing systems that leaves Germans caught in the middle, with their government having decided to lock the nation into the unipolar U.S. system. The price of its choice to live in the ...
Poland, sharing a border with Russia, may be justified in feeling unsafe, though I doubt it. Anyway I can't see Russia wanting to go to war with any country west of the Black Sea; just the opposite.
I have always understood that in the fifties the top rate in the UK was 19s 6d in the pound; and Michael Moore tells us in one of his documentaries that the top rate in the USA was 90% during that period.
I think, though of course I could be wrong, that land is revalued every three years, and the valuations that the IRD would work with are made by an organization called Quotable Value, not by miscellaneous "valuers and accountants".
It was a silly question. Whether it is believed or not is not for Hipkins to say. It is really up to NoRightTurn, Bearded Git, or, indeed, the general public, to decide whether to believe him. It was essentially a "gotcha" question aimed at Hipkin's ...
That is a silly comment. A land value tax is a tax on the ownership of land. It is charged whether the land value rises or falls. It isn't a Capital Gains Tax at all. No gains are required before it becomes due. Quite so. It is a tax on land. It ...
A land value tax taxes capital gains on a regular basis, without having to wait for an asset to be sold before it can be levied. Most capital gain is probably on land anyway.
"You rejected changes to the tax system 8 months ago. Why should we believe you when you say changes are appropriate now?" Hipkins should reply: When you ask questions like that, why should I not consider you a moron?
Precisely. Financial services are not productive. That's why interest.which is a financial charge should not be deductible. The tenant pays all the landlord's tax, including his income tax. Were else is his tax to come from, but from the tenant, if the ...
Providing housing is certainly a service. Then why is it not subject to GST ?
Macron is only politicking. It makes no difference to France whichever side wins.
That was essentially what the Opportunities Party proposed when it was first launched. One could argue that the money saved from not paying rent could be treated as a sort of quasi income and taxed. Ideally the rental value of the property would be ...
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