anyone remember Simon Bridges comments about how National was going to 'light a bonfire under good ideas' and become a "red tape factory"
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"A CGT - So we all pay our fair share" "A CGT - and you'll pay less income tax"
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As National Party leaders at the last election, Judith Collins and Gerry Brownlee were as useful as: an ashtray on a motor bike, or a chocolate fireguard, or a fart in a space suit, or a rubber beak on a woodpecker?
I am picking Collins to be rolled before the next election. The poison cup she currently holds would not be a popular thing to inherit I think. A number of National MP's will still be holding their noses having Collins as leader. The pong will not be very ...
I have seen similar Robert. One benefit, amongst a number, is that it provides a buffer against climactic extremes of dry and wet. Elsewhere globally in areas of food insecurity and climactic stresses/extremes a permaculture approach promises real hope. ...
swales and contouring the land for water percolation. yes pretty sensible stuff. easiest done on land with hills. I have not seen examples of it being done on flat land without some mechanical involvement to spread the water. I imagine somewhere like ...
a several times bankrupt narcissistic liar and a convicted felon grifting and purloining cash from deluded Americans. MAGA - yes, make america great again, it starts in January
A CGT may knock he peak of a housing bubble but agreed will not by itself solve the price inflation. However a dollar made through capital gains should be taxed as it's a dollar made. If needs be just apply it to housing, anything in addition to one home ...
when you get a test stay at home until you get the test results, that is the common sense learning from this case. the turn around in this case for the results was 2 days maximum
I think the term 'blood sucking leaches' is off the mark bring levelled against all housing investors. Some will be, yes. Likewise not all tenants are angels, some are drop kicks. I think it's a batter approach to drop the emotive tags and hyperbolic ...
Amongst matters, one thing farmers are expressing concern about is that large scale forestry planting on existing farm land will reduce jobs and choke off income to small towns and service centres. Interesting argument at a time we see the introduction of ...
Annual net migration year ended December 2017 70,000 you are saying it is currently 54,000 that's a significant drop so they are doing what they said they would do it does need to go down from where it currently is though
'This year the bush fires are worse than ever, but it is only a natural events and not linked to climate change'. When next year and the year after that and the year after that, as the bush fires continue to get worse and worse, just continue to tell ...
AL is right, we do have to look at productivity, and also how the gain of productivity are shared. FB agreements are part of the jigsaw for ensuring productivity gains are shared equitably. When there is an economic benefit from productivity gains, capital...
Plunkets knee jerk curmudgeonly rants. Listen to his show long enough and you get a reasonable handle on CC ignorance. For example, apparently it's all the fault of volcanos, stop all the eruptions and we are sweet. He treats anti vaccers* with contempt, ...
bowling some short pitched stuff to batsmen, or a co-ordinated and detailed plan of short pitched bouncers with a carefully set leg side field which forces the batsman to play the ball and very possibly get an edge or avoid playing the ball and risk being ...
Simon Bridges was bang on the money this morning though talking about traffic congestion forecast to rise in Auckland over coming years. He stated They've cancelled all our roading projects, they haven't started a single new one, and what they're going to ...
Lets go back a bit in time to examine how the National Party has previously acted about Climate Change. Mid 2000's there was the suggestion of a carbon tax $10 (I think) per ton as well as a levy on farm stock to fund research into methane reduction.Don ...
ditch MMP and decide elections based on who scores the most boundaries
banks is like some soggy gross old cabbage your nana boiled and then reboiled for dinner the next night and is threatening to give you for a third night in a row. who the heck would want that. Changing subject slightly I think the way the Auckland ...
can someone shed some light or an enlightened opinion on the following. In my simple mind I thought the solution to parents caring for adult disabled children would be to introduce a targeted welfare payment to the parents to acknowledge the extra costs ...
A report out from BERL today laying out the benefits of Industry based bargained Collective Agreements. http://www.union.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Sector-wage-bargaining-Pipiri-2019.pdf On Tuesday, BERL chief economist Ganesh Nana unveiled a ...
on one hand you consider at least 2 terms in opposition with Bridges as your leader. On the other hand you consider retirement. Adams decision sums things up quite clearly.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12240761 "Non-union teachers are angry that they will have to wait three months to get the pay rises that the Government has offered to union members...Justin Lindsay, a Hastings Boys' High ...
I was reminded of some words from a Bruce Springstein song this morning, My Home Town: Now main streets whitewashed windows and vacant stores Seems like there aint nobody wants to come down here no more They're closing down the textile mill across the ...
Have at look at these for the SAHA BCRs. This was the report that Stephen Joyce apparently sent back to be amended. There was something obviously wrong with the BCRs SAHA submitted to him. Maybe there were too low for the Ministers liking. http://...
Historically a strong currency has been something that a country is proud of (is a skilled professional sad that he/she can charge high rates for his or her services?) Yes, that was true historically. Back in the early 1970s the NZ dollars was on a par ...
Schools are achieving in the area they have most control over - teaching and learning. Our high international education rankings show this. There are a range of very bad statistics as well however much of this falls outside the direct control of schools. ...
John Key discards any plan to make the cake bigger and concentrates on eating it instead.
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