Absolutely the industry needs to be regulated. As you state farmers trivialised methane pollution by calling it a fart tax when all the while knowing the methane comes from the front of an animal. There are some farmers who are trying to mitigate their ...
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I was writing about the topic as early as 2012, when I worked at the University of Canterbury. https://offsettingbehaviour.blogspot.com/2012/12/more-fat-taxes-and-minor-correction.html I know it's easier to ignore arguments you don't like if you demonise ...
The Initiative lists its members on its website. Having a broad membership base means independence. I'd sooner we lost a member than skewed our work to suit the preferences of any of them. Since there's 50 of them, none of them have any power to sway ...
The many interested fans of the Initiative here at The Standard are encouraged to read our report on zero percent loans: https://nzinitiative.org.nz/insights/reports/decade-of-debt-the-cost-of-interest-free-student-loans/ Long story short: the programme ...
We recommended reinstating interest on loans and using the savings to fund stronger tertiary preparation, especially in schools with poor track records in getting kids through to tertiary; we also recommended some of the savings be put into means-tested ...
Welfare fraud - nothing but bludgers off the public teat. Glad that the Hagerman's have taken this action as it supports the Labour/Green axis highlighting "business as usual" from the Nats. Can't wait to see what happens.
Saying "NO" and exiting the Euro and the EU would an answer if Greece would have properly prepared for that possibility. As I see it, they are going to require a monumental humanitarian effort from total financial collapse or a deal. A regime change occurs...
I'll just copy here the comment I left for Salmond over on his blog. And thanks for the kind words above; the standard of discussion here always cheers me up. --- If you check the full op-ed piece, you'll note that my main argument is about the hassle cost...
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There are a number of downright idiotic comments here from some very selfish, ignorant and quite arrogant people, full of their own self importance. To these people animals, other than their own species appear to mean very little in their own right, just a...
Well done John and all at Farmwatch NZ, it is painful to endure the conditions in which the sentient beings are confined. They live in what can only be described as squaler and filth with no chance of escape. The stench is unbelievable, I know this as I ...
Well done John and all at Farmwatch NZ, it is painful to endure the conditions in which the sentient beings are confined. They live in what can only be described as squaler and filth with no chance of escape. The stench is unbelievable, I know this as I ...
pete ..when you come back and support the nz ecomony..then you can have an opinion...put your money..( tax free for you..) where your mouth is and by the way..grow a pair...love to meet you sometime...from a nz taxpayer..
I'm not sure that profits from minimum pricing wind up going to the liquor companies; you need to assume some other market failure in the system to get there. See here. Not that I like minimum pricing; I'm just not sure that it can confer rents.
It's Dube et al; I'm sure it googles with the title. But note that the real value of the minimum wage in the US is far lower than it is here; it would be foolhardy to expect that results that obtain when the minimum wage is a third the average would also ...
More fully: The cited email is one analyst's view, in 2010, that evidence from the early 2000s of a lack of effect of changes in youth minimum wages on youth employment suggests we oughtn't jump too quickly to ascribe changes in current youth unemployment ...
More fully: The cited email is one analyst's view, in 2010, that evidence from the early 2000s of a lack of effect of changes in youth minimum wages on youth employment suggests we oughtn't jump too quickly to ascribe changes in current youth unemployment ...
No. read the post.
Interesting that y'all are happy to take an email from a single analyst on an only tangentially related issue as representing Treasury's official view. You might recall that Treasury opposed a $0.25 increase in 2010; Gower paints them as supporting a $2 ...
Do note that the unemployment rate for 15-19 year olds is 27.5%. The 2008 changes hit the 15-17 year old cohort; the recession made the prior elimination of the youth rate for 18-19 year olds binding. At least that's my bet.
Whoever lprent is: Your attachment to my comment is interesting. I have made maybe 2 comments on this site and each time I used decent language and expressed my thoughts on the opinions and aggressive language of some. For that I see you have decided that ...
It is noticeable that some commentators are very abusive especially when challenging or rebutting comments that could be construed as right wing. I see it as the ugly 26%. Since when was it someone else's problem and obligation for people having children ...
1. I don't object to the title chosen for the piece, but do recall that op-ed writers don't write the headline; subeditors do. I didn't know the title till the piece was in print. 2. Hoodwink Academy? Neo-Victorian? You guys crack me up.
@Puddleglum: We would expect that firms able to fire more easily during the trial period would do so. As for the magnitude of the effect - I'd be really surprised if it were that big. Firms don't like firing people 'cause you have to train them. Say the ...
@Puddlegum: NZIER here is kinda trying for a "water flows downhill" result. There is really strong reason from basic price theory to expect it increased employment among the firms who were eligible. Of course you are right that if small employers tended in...
Are you saying they can't afford to give them ponies? Note that wages at sweatshops are higher than prevailing wages in those countries - that's why workers try to get jobs in those factories rather than elsewhere.
Thanks for the partial disambiguation; I always prefer knowing to whom I'm talking. The youth unemployment rate went up then, sure, but not by nearly as much or as quickly relative to the adult unemployment rate. From 1990 to 1992 or so, the unexplained ...
If somebody chose a factory over prostitution, then went to prostitution when the factory closed, I'd have to say that that person preferred the factory. If somebody preferred prostitution from the outset, that's of course different.
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