NAct1st talk about reducing taxes, but I do wonder how much greater net income someone on average earnings will have after paying 15% higher rates (either directly or through rent), and paying higher costs for running a vehicle. Then a similar calculation ...
There are two complications. NZ has the Cullen Fund. I don't know if it is now being drawn upon, but I suspect it is the closest we have got to a Sovereign Fund such as Norway have. Good investment Returns are what got the current Governor of the Reserve ...
I am sure that many used to be able to get all the news they needed from the column by Mike Hosking in The Herald, but he has now apparently gone to a radio station; Radio New Zealand appears to have missed an opportunity. So where do you get your news ...
Look up Rotary motorbike group, or see https://mnz.co.nz/clubs/find-a-club/ Most weekends, particularly in good weather, there are groups on our roads enjoying their motorcycles - groups and clubs may not be the same as the better known gangs.
We can readily obtain data from WOF work about weight, wheel/ axle configuration, exhaust emissions; and from manufacturer specs estimate fuel use and electricity use for a standard travel distance. Petrol and diesel have characteristics for emissions ...
Thank you for the reminder, and the quotes from Deborah Russell and David Parker. Surprisingly in view of the actions over this report, Nicola Willis said last year: “I'm a big believer – in politics and leadership – you've got to take people with you,” ...
I was not aware that any of the English versions of the Treaty were authenticated - is there any evidence of that, and if so which English version was authenticated?
Re your first question, I do not know why two versions were used - perhaps the Maori one was being sent elsewhere at the time. Re why an English language version was sent to England, surely because the people likely to read it did not speak Maori; and ...
I am a little confused. The home page uses a photograph of a partially graffiti attacked version of what is presumably one of several drafts of the Treaty in the English Language As I understand it there still are about 7 different versions in the English ...
I do not disagree with the conclusions of posts 1, 1.1 and 1.2, but I have noted the tendency in a number of posts to stray from personal names to more descriptive variations. The name luxon may not have deliberately missed a capital; CLuxon quite ...
That is the beauteous thing about sell offs of state owned organisations to make them privately owned "for profit" companies, which have as their primary aim to make profits for shareholders. Make it a small group of companies and there should be ...
I recall some discussion about catering for tourists that are addicted, and for those that are younger who become addicted despite not being in the group permitted to purchase. From memory the thoughts were to use the equivalent of a prescription. At that ...
I share your scepticism about the usefulness of the NZ Taxpayer Union, Dennis, but apparently they have enough money to be able to offer their services for no charge . . ..
From an organisation that I regard as the most recent incarnation of dirty tricks, albeit with a carefully managed public face - even after a change of government there will be a desire to keep them going for their ability to raise funds for 'research' ...
I had understood that they maximised the impact on patients for the lowest possible cost - if a new drug is more effective than an older one, that may cause a drop in price that means the slightly less effective drug gives better results per dollar - hence...
"While Covid has had an impact, it's beyond time that schools stopped using this as an excuse." Many schools do analyse absenteeism, and staying away because a child or family member is ill is more common than it used to be - Covid is still with us, and ...
I am not clear on what exactly is proposed - do they intend to remove all restrictions on purchasers? Whatever it means, they are putting money ahead of lives - killing many with a horrible disease for short term tax cuts for the wealthy. Labour saved 20,...
Chris Trotter makes a good point about Luxon. Before the final count he acted as though it was holiday time. We know that he and others he wished to involve will have received public service briefings - and in a few cases departments have some idea of ...
Oops, yes I was wrong. I was thinking of the Dawn Raids, and I picked the wrong group - I should have referred to Samoans and Tongans. Sorry.
I have often felt that New Zealand should have been more generous to people from the Cooks, Niue and Tokelau in terms of rights of access, of citizenship after a period of residence, and a right to return with a transfer of citizenship in either direction ...
Wealth tax is very expensive to administer; but it should not be too quickly rejected - the wealthy employ armies of accountants to give the numbers they want. Good change will be very complicated - WFF needs review, as does whether a zero first rate will ...
Thinking! We do the thinking - their job is just to deliver! Watch as the NActs strip competence out of the public sector (as they did under Key/English) then leave a mess for the following government.
I agree - words mean what I intend them to mean, and of course right-bloggers will say that the National Party is solidly Centre-Right, Labour is slightly left, and the Green Party is economically far left, but also have strange views about climate change....
Chris Finlayson was interviewed on Nat Radio repeating his claims that co-governance had worked well for National and all Labour had needed to do was explain it properly. I suspect he may be a bit of a lone voice until the new government faces a few Treaty...
Port Waikato may be more interesting than many expected. Will Bayley take his own advice and now indicate that if he will resign if he gets a list place, and not stand at the by-election? - or have I mixed up two different stories? https://www.newsroom.co....
I find it bizarre that so many appear to believe that we do not have tax on capital gains. I believe we do, and that such a tax does apply to most investments, particularly those made by corporate entities, including Kiwisaver. If it is possible to tax ...
The usenet group nz.general is something of a cess-pit on politics - a post this morning titled "New Service for those escaping overseas" gave the url: https://www.robbos.co.nz/ A later post identified that the website was registered to The New Zealand ...
I do not understand the comment"(because it is a commercial building, it is excluded from capital gain calculations)" It was my understanding that the current 2 year bright line test (and the previous 10 year version) related to residential hises used for ...
Are we really, really clear on just what is proposed by National? Above there are comments that relate to land, to houses, and to properties. Would a sale of 42m worth of "State Houses" come within the policy? The group that may be attractive to private ...
Nic, it is not clear what you are claiming is completely wrong; so my comment is about your claim that "the think big projects were the backbone for a lot of the countries electricity production and still are important to it." That is certainly in part ...
Not really a review of today, but I may not be able to post to TS for a few days. There has been a lot of talk about excess profits in recent times, with a good item on RNZ this morning pointing out that the Aussie Banks have just increased their margin at...
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