The extreme reluctance of Japanese soldiers to surrender is no myth. There are numerous examples to back it up. Not saying your wrong about the US wanting Japan to surrender to them rather than Russia. No doubt the US wanted that.
That is an interesting idea. I guess the main advantage of that vs excise tax is the financial incentive to reduce harm of alcohol. However, reducing alcohol harm does mean reducing consumption, so they may figure they are better off paying the hospital ...
Can you elaborate. I don't understand your point.
We could just direct income from the alcohol excise tax to the health sector.
What are the actual concerns about the use of GM trees in New Zealand? Not justifying Nationals actions, just curious.
Labour has a good point, they just made it very badly.
/facepalm That's crappy statistical analysis. You're assuming that this single firm is representative of the entire city. NZ citizens/residents of Chinese descent may be over represented in this sample. We don't know, so you can't draw such strong ...
I'm not saying they should hold off on making the changes that Labour has proposed. As I said, I support them. My problem is, Auckland house prices aren't being driven by foreign buyers alone. If we don't know how much foreign buyers are contributing to ...
I agree. It is ridiculous that we don't have actual data on this.
Right, but that says nothing about whether they are NZ citizens/residents or foreign citizens, which is the the issue here. Unless you're opposed to people of Chinese ancestry buying homes in NZ.
I support what Labour is proposing, but it would be good to get an idea of how big the problem actually is. Twyford’s "analysis" of one firm's sales figures over 3 months is doesn't prove a thing.
No doubt, but you can't say the Greek government is free of blame just because the austerity programmes made the situation worse.
Only 110%! That's a huge amount of debt.
I don't see how anyone could argue that the bailouts and Austerity demands have been good for Greece, but Gosman is (at least partly) correct. The blame for Greece's pre-financial crisis debt falls squarely on previous Greek governments.
Can you elaborate?
Exactly. You can't fight a real problem with weak statistics like this.
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