Hi AB you comment: "Indeed Michael @2.1. Passive income can ...
Drowsy the comments are out of sync but if you see this I agree with you re our luck in the "Grace of God" department. More so perhaps as I am a follower of Jesus. I realise that I won the lottery being born in NZ with opportunities not afforded to those ...
Yes Drowsy I agree that financial freedom is great and have spent the last 20 years able to follow my passion of helping young people start, run and grow businesses. I agree that we need to avoid - the "love of money" - but find generosity is the best ...
I agree Drowsy that building passive investment is a great life goal. Passive income gives the freedom to do what truly matters to you. I am very grateful that my family taught me the principle at a young age.
Labours downfall was Covid. the ferries cost $1.3 billion. nicola Willis won’t fund that but $3 billion to landlords in a tax rebate is fine
It seems the WPath guidelines have been adopted and are in use here in NZ for gender affirming care. Here's the link for the NZ guidelines. https://patha.nz/Guidelines
Yep good ideas, something has to be done. I would also start by changing the income tax act so there is no more.. 'income not treated as income for income tax purposes.' Income is income and if anything there should be less tax on work. In my opinion ALL ...
Many people might think it kind of strange how Swarbrick has been so outspoken and active, going on marches, etc on this particular conflict but they haven't heard a peep from her condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine in which many many thousands more ...
How do you get from "I think the way she has supported Palestinian liberation by implying that Jewish people are bad/wrong is a mistake" to saying that by stating the above, the author has bought into a notion that supporting Palestine is antisemitic? ...
"But although they are not terrible people, they do believe terrible things. Kiwis seem to struggle to make this distinction." Kiwis don't struggle to make this distinction at all in my opinion. Just because certain things are "terrible" according to you ...
" Interest does not contribute in any way to actual gaining of revenue." Landlords would argue that interest payments contribute negatively to revenue. The loan (mortgage) was taken out for the purpose of deriving business income (rent) from the asset. The...
Mr Smith seems to have an animus against the United States and everything it does or doesn't do. I believe he may have held communist sympathies at one time. Perhaps he still does?
China, a balanced view? You do know that China is an authoritarian dictatorship with a ruler in Xi Jinping who has essentially made himself absolute ruler for life? Not sure how you could provide balance against that. Maybe the anti AUKUS, anti Israel, ...
Perhaps you could explain it in a different way then Robert? It sounds to me and maybe others although I can't speak for them, as though you're somehow saying she asked for it? Or that she is somehow responsible for the assault upon her, in other words ...
"The person who "suffers from ADHD and autism" is a "disgrace"? Hmmmmm…." Robert you are being disingenuous and I don't believe you don't know it. (But I could be wrong of course) Suffering from ADHD and autism doesn't give a person an excuse for punching ...
Bingo "The Hurricanes will apologise to the government over a haka performed by its women's side...." https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/510919/hurricanes-to-apologise-over-redneck-haka
I disagree. Surely they can comment on politics and take political sides all they want in a personal capacity, but here they are representing the Hurricanes and therefore shouldn't be doing politics. Maybe they should focus on their jobs instead because ...
"...she gave people a sense that she cared..." If she really cared about inequality she would have introduced some form of wealth tax and would have seriously looked at how to transition tax revenues away from work and towards wealth. But her position (as ...
Many many people work hard and do the right thing yet struggle to pay their rent let alone save anything or have any hope of ever being able to afford a house of their own. Meanwhile, people like these 2 have multiple properties, multiple businesses (...
Just received this article about why Newshub should have moved right to stay in business which says it much better than I could. https://www.downtoearth.kiwi/post/economics-101-explains-why-newshub-bankrupted-it-was-the-fault-of-its-own-journalists-who-...
TV1 and TV3 were interchangeable to me. Why didn't TV3 try to move to a more conservative position rather than doing the same as the state channel. Like Fox or Tele in France. Get people like Phillip Crump, Oliver Hartwich and Mike Hosking for editorial ...
Precisely. The Natzis know that non-rich white voters hate Maori, which provides the Natzis with a perfect opportunity to play the race card and divert attention away from the effects of their policies - to further enrich the very rich and impoverish ...
It's perfectly rational. It gets their supporters literally salivating (get tough on crime !!) as well as providing distraction.
What you think that they are any different from each other....really? In regards to your second paragraph, things have moved on and changed since back in those days for goodness sake. When my Dad was awarded a fellowship I won't say in what industry there ...
"Some of those big bikie mobs that rumble around the streets actually look pretty threatening too, but because they are older mostly white men without mokos they probably won't be touched." ?? Which mobs are these. (some in the South Island maybe?) Because...
Straight out of the standard political playbook. If you can convince the population there's a crisis (better still if you can create a climate of fear) then you can much more easily make excuses for breaking promises and / or not delivering in certain ...
"...Banning freedom of expression (gang patches) is like trying to deal with climate change by breaking all of the thermometers..." As much as I don't like gangs, it's pretty hard to argue with anything Jonathon Ayling is saying here: https://www.youtube....
Yep, but unfortunately so would.. Disconnected phone number because bill wasn't paid.
Martyn Bradbury's remarks about Labour's relationship with the PSA is well worth reading on The Daily Blog website today. I am sure many readers of and contributors to this site will dislike Bradbury's column intensely. But that doesn't make its contents ...
"...a choice between protecting the economy or protecting our ability to function as a nation state..." I don't see how there could be a choice between those two things? Aren't they both reliant on the other?
What would an alternative to neoliberlism look like? Not some form of utopia but not dystopia either (which we seem to be closer to under this government). AFAICS, this alternative world must contain some form of capitalism, with resulting inequality and ...
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