Oh, of course. I stared at it for a couple of minutes without registering. Thank you.
Please, what are "NB toilets"?
Don't be mean. Mike the L can't really be expected to keep up with what is going on in Parliament. He probably hasn't noticed yet that Jacinda and Grant are no longer there. In fact he might not have realised that Helen Clark is gone from the House.
Well Verrall would probably have some ideas of the rules. Her practising certificate expired back in 2021. Whoops, edit for evidence https://www.mcnz.org.nz/registration/register-of-doctors/?keyword=verrall&location=&area=&status=
When did Bill say that? No doubt you can provide a link to what he said, and the words he used.
Johnson appears to have had his Road to Damascus moment. His current actions certainly seem to show a change in at least some of his beliefs don't they? From the Guardian we have the following "“I am going to allow an opportunity for every single member of...
I think that mocking him by comparing his actions to those of Truss are terribly mistaken. He is willing to give up the role of Speaker in order to do something that he believes to be right. If he loses the Speaker's job then so what? If only we had more ...
The "sanctity" in International law you talk about applies only to how the Syrian Government treats the Iranian Embassy in Syria, not what the Israeli Government might do.
That isn't actually true. They do exist. There are private schools, although not very many. Apparently about 3% or pupils go to private schools. They teach the State Curriculum and are financed by the state, An acquaintance, whose son lives there has told ...
"Now it is no free Flu vaccine for (............) Māori/ PI over 65, Absolute rubbish. The vaccine is free for anyone over 65. From Pharmacs' info notice "For the 2024 flu season, the vaccine is funded for everyone 65 years old and over" https://pharmac....
The Councils could save that supposed $100 k for a referendum, and a great deal more besides by a very simple action. Just abolish the Maori Wards before the next election. That would save the $100 k and also the annual payments for each Councillor from a ...
I fear that the Maori Wards for local bodies are like the Maori electorates. The polling numbers there are always well down on the General Electorates. It is certainly difficult to see that it increases the participation of Maori in the electoral system. ...
She may not be too far out with the claim. The 2018 Census says there were 4986 Maori in the Manawatu District and it will have risen a bit since then. Her figure of 6,000 is probably not far out. The Census classifies you as Maori if you have any Maori ...
It was 5% of the people on the roll who had to sign the petition. That has nothing to do with how many might actually vote when the referendum is finally held. This does require an automatic referendum on all the Maori Wards that have been set up since the...
I am well aware of what the orange be-wigged idiot has said about NATO. I didn't think that the GOP would go along with him though. In December last year there was bi-partisan agreement that would require a super majority of the Senate to agree to such a ...
What is your evidence that the GOP has abandoned NATO. That link doesn't support the claim
If the Maori Ward Councillor on the Manawatu DC is typical I really don't think that anything is achieved by having people like her on any Council. She hasn't got the faintest idea about the proposed change to allow for referenda on the question. She ...
I shall reword it then, for your benefit. "He wasn't talking only about the war". That was why I said "the top rate was nothing like that number in any year after 1946".
I really don't see why one works and the other didn't. They look like the same link.
He wasn't talking about the war. He said it was right up to 1963. Your own link says "When the Labour government left office in 1949 the top income tax rate was 76.5%" which is much lower.
Sorry about that. Try https://www.treasury.govt.nz/sites/default/files/2012-09/twp12-04.pdf It is page number 9 in the report or 14 of the file at the top.
Where do you get those numbers? I haven't got the figures for each year in detail but according to the New Zealand Treasury the top rate was nothing like that number in any year after 1946. See the graph on page 9 of this link. Even if you include Social ...
"land value tax taxes capital gains" 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. The ...
"Now you are saying" Rubbish. I was arguing that wealth taxes are impossible to implement. I wasn't arguing for or against CGT or Estate taxes yesterday. I was only talking about Wealth taxes. If you read through what I said carefully your cognitive ...
Are you the same KJT as the one who made this comment yesterday? https://thestandard.org.nz/chris-hipkins-values-matter/#comment-1993906 There you seemed to be advocating for a wealth tax, which I would say was unworkable. Now you seem to be against them. ...
A Capital Gains tax is NOT a wealth tax. If you don't have any gain then you don't pay a CGT. That would be if you followed the old joke about airlines. How do make a small fortune? Start with a large fortune and buy an airline. If you list 3 types of ...
"Almost all countries in Europe have Capital gains and inheritance taxes. Wealth taxes" The majority of EU countries do NOT have wealth taxes. There are, in the EU and OECD European countries, only 3 which charge a net wealth tax. Another 4 charge some ...
@KJT. Does your comment mean that you don't have any evidence but you feelz that way?
'Most people's living standards have dropped ever since." And what is you evidence for this claim?
"Any joy devising a better method of calculation?" I thought you were joking when you asked for this. I would have thought you would have learnt this sort of thing at Primary School. It has nothing to do with Economics. It has nothing to do with Statistics...
I took my statistics from the Official New Zealand Government material on Vietnam. If I had to choose I assume that it will be more accurate than Wikipedia. On the other hand I did misquote it. It does not say there were only 3,000. It says there were over...
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