Written By: - Date published: 9:30 pm, May 22nd, 2008 - 13 comments
Here are graphs of the portion of income going on tax and the portion of reduction in tax for Kiwis under the Budget’s cuts, with the population in each $10,000 bracket. As you can see, the biggest percent reductions go to the bulk of the population. And everyone is paying at least 10% less tax …
Written By: - Date published: 12:45 pm, April 29th, 2008 - 93 comments
Family First’s petition for a referendum on reversing the amendment to s59 of the Crimes Act that removed the defence of reasonable force for assault on a child (try saying that three times fast) has failed to get enough signatures. It needed 280,275 signatures and seemed to have enough but the Office of the Clerk …
Written By: - Date published: 10:27 am, April 29th, 2008 - 25 comments
The Child Poverty Action Group has released a report [PDF, 400k] showing there were 185,000 children living in poverty in New Zealand in 2004. That’s a big number but it is out of date and already well down from the dark days of the 1990s. It is estimated that higher employment, higher wages, paid paternal …
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