Budget analysis and reaction – The One Dollar Bill budget
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Date published: 3:12 pm, May 25th, 2017 - 129 comments
Andrew Little calls it the ‘The One Dollar Bill Budget’, a $1 tax cut for cleaner on minimum wage.
As usual it is the already well off who do the best out of National’s election year tax cut bribe.
The Labour lite budget
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Date published: 8:31 am, May 25th, 2017 - 25 comments
From pre announced budget initiatives it is clear that today’s budget will provide National the opportunity to announce watered down insipid versions of current Labour Party policies.
Keith Ng’s four tax myths
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Date published: 7:31 am, May 25th, 2017 - 23 comments
A useful piece from Keith Ng on myths about tax. It’s an extract from The PSA’s “Progressive Thinking: Ten Perspectives on Tax” booklet.
Budget 2017 – general discussion post
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Date published: 6:04 am, May 25th, 2017 - 20 comments
Budget Day.
Open Mike 25/05/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 25th, 2017 - 57 comments
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Daily Review 24/05/2017
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 24th, 2017 - 39 comments
Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
Nat tactics Ngaro and third term arrogance
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Date published: 10:27 am, May 24th, 2017 - 41 comments
Ngaro has fronted up with another grudging apology. English should have fired him and it speaks volumes of third-term arrogance that he hasn’t.
Tipping vs fair wages
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Date published: 9:46 am, May 24th, 2017 - 39 comments
I don’t know of a single piece written in support of Bennett’s proposal. She has been in the bubble too long, and lost touch with the values of NZ.
Open Mike 24/05/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 24th, 2017 - 78 comments
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Oh Manchester …
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Date published: 2:19 pm, May 23rd, 2017 - 242 comments
Terrible news from Manchester where two explosions have killed at least 19 people and injured many more. This post will be updated as more news comes in.
Budget details “leak”
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Date published: 11:03 am, May 23rd, 2017 - 48 comments
Richard Harman at Politik: A “Families’ Income Package” is likely to be at the core of this week’s Budget. Sources close to the Government have “leaked” details of the Budget to POLITIK.
Stuff – online survey on NZ direction
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Date published: 10:28 am, May 23rd, 2017 - 10 comments
Stuff is running an online survey – Is New Zealand on the right track?
Geddis on TPP11
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Date published: 9:46 am, May 23rd, 2017 - 10 comments
Geddis: “So either Bill English was lying to Susie Ferguson on the radio, or his advisors lied to him about what TPP11 will require, or the Crown’s lawyers are lying to the Waitangi Tribunal.”
Strong and Stable – guess National’s campaign slogan!
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Date published: 8:34 am, May 23rd, 2017 - 36 comments
We’ve had the Brighter Future (it sucks). We’ve had The Cusp of Something Special (it wasn’t). What will National’s soundbite slogan be this time?
$14 billion to meet Paris Agreement targets
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Date published: 7:01 am, May 23rd, 2017 - 16 comments
Why isn’t National taking active steps to curb our emissions? We committed to reduce to 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, instead we are expected to increase. This is a massive failure of vision, commitment, and competence.
Open Mike 23/05/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 23rd, 2017 - 185 comments
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Daily Review 22/05/2017
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 22nd, 2017 - 22 comments
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Pre budget positioning for a government that says it is “doing all it can”
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Date published: 1:37 pm, May 22nd, 2017 - 10 comments
National does the bare minimum that it thinks it can get away with for those in need. This positioning is just preparing the ground for a budget that does more the same not enough.
No one owns water, apart from corporations who sell it …
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Date published: 12:43 pm, May 22nd, 2017 - 27 comments
The Herald has reported that ordinary New Zealanders are paying 500 times as much for water as corporations who export it.
Voter transitions 2011 2014
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Date published: 10:25 am, May 22nd, 2017 - 31 comments
Peter Ellis from Peter’s Stats Stuff
Let’s green the red zone
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Date published: 8:00 am, May 22nd, 2017 - 91 comments
A Christchurch community group has come out with an outstanding solution for what to do with red zone land that is currently unusable.
The Greens – Budget for All Mothers
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Date published: 7:02 am, May 22nd, 2017 - 33 comments
Some great ideas in The Greens “Budget for All Mothers”. Surely no “data driven” “social investment” party could be opposed?
Open Mike 22/05/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 22nd, 2017 - 45 comments
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President Pence
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Date published: 6:21 pm, May 21st, 2017 - 47 comments
Mensch and Taylor report that: “Multiple sources close to the intelligence, justice and law enforcement communities say that the House Judiciary Committee is considering Articles of Impeachment against the President of the United States.”
The UK elections – Has Labour got the big mo?
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Date published: 10:58 am, May 21st, 2017 - 66 comments
And in the United Kingdom the election that was meant to be a foregone conclusion suddenly is suddenly tightening.
Book review: Here on Earth – An Argument for Hope
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Date published: 10:01 am, May 21st, 2017 - 12 comments
A brief review of Here on Earth: An Argument for Hope, by Tim Flannery. An argument for hope is exactly what we need, but does Flannery make the case?
Slater v Craig – battle of the has beens
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Date published: 8:55 am, May 21st, 2017 - 22 comments
The High Court this week has been asked to dissect the decline of the Conservative Party and of the 2014 form of dirty politics.
Open Mike 21/05/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 21st, 2017 - 38 comments
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New Zealand’s Neoliberal Drift
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Date published: 2:23 pm, May 20th, 2017 - 85 comments
In New Zealand, neoliberal reforms have widened inequality and undermined the country’s self-image as an egalitarian paradise.
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