Fronterra adds less value to its milk than any other milk company operating in New Zealand
Just because you don't get a tax cut doesn't mean you will be worse off under Labour. Your taxes pay for health care. You might need a new kidney next year. A piddly amount of extra taxes might give you twenty years more life. I suspect the odds of ...
So that is why every rural town in New Zealand has no empty shops, why there is a post office, a doctor's surgery and a Kiwibank in every village and there are buses every hour to the larger centres from every village?
If the past three terms of government are the National model you can guarantee that a future National government will introduce several new taxes in their next term in power. These taxes will not have been mentioned by any National candidate during the ...
The debate needs to be about regressive versus progressive taxes. GST is regressive because it takes a higher portion of a poorer person's income than a richer person's income.. You don't pay GST on your overseas spending, nor on money you deposit in your ...
The 'real' Matthew - Guess you are a feral - living on the run, uncontrolled and a hazard to society in general. I assume you live by theft. I guess also that you haven't realised that superannuation is the exact benefit you are describing. Are all the old...
No, make ALL Australia's parliamentary members New Zealanders automatically on their being elected. Simple.
let's solve this issue of political bias. In the interest of trans-Tasman mateship, lets pass a law that whoever gets elected to the Australian federal parliament immediately, automatically and irrevocably becomes a New Zealand citizen. Simple, easy and ...
The easy attitude to take if you are getting a reasonable income and you don't stop to analyse what is happening in the wider community is: -taxes are bad, beneficiaries are a direct cost to me and those bloody whingers don't do anything for me. When you ...
What a clever idea. The Australians gave donkey a gong and a sash. Each time an Australian federal politician lands in NZ we could give them a passport.
Why aren't all male politicians over fifty asked if they have prostate cancer and how will it affect their work ability?
The east-west link will be a truck park. There will be nowhere to go to at the east (the southern motorway!!!! and the western end will clog the south-western. Grow up - putting a third line down the main-trunk line will allow better passenger use of the ...
Train enough doctors and you can pay them peanuts. We'd all be healthier - check the Cuban health statistics quoted earlier
Rationality has a left-wing bias. Proof? Trump.
a thousand to sell the house, not move it. sell the light bulb separately get skilled migrants to replace the bulb Then kick them out
Does any of this matter if the Donald has dementia?
I would think the first and second world wars are valid reasons for the UK to remain in the EU
One thing not mentioned is that the people and organisations that will receive the payments will almost certainly spend this money quickly in New Zealand. The money will have a multiplier effect on the NZ economy far greater than tax cuts to the rich where...
Lots of weird stuff here. Surely this is a political site. The discussion should be what could a government trying to reduce the country's emissions do this year and more realistically what could a government do after the next election to reduce emissions ...
Israel as a Jewish nation will eventually be destroyed by the settlements, The Zionist expansion into Palestine destroys the 2 nations concept. If one nation only exists combining Israel and Palestine, and assuming it is a democratic nation, then the fact ...
cheaper houses are closer together than expensive houses. the truck uses less fuel to pick up a load from cheaper housing areas than from the lower density, expensive housing areas.
Aucklanders don't pay enough rates. Auckland rates are lower than many other places in New Zealand, They are way lower than what you can expect to pay in Australia and the USA. An honest local body politician who really wants to improve the city would be ...
If you want to reduce house prices standard houses need standard zoning rules. If an NES set out say a dozen residential zones, and required all District Plans to use only those zone rules, then a dwelling designed for a specific zone would be easily ...
Most of the cost of New Zealand Houses is their size. If the house is smaller you use less materials. If the RB allowed a higher debt to income level for first home buyers of dwelling less than say 100 sq m, then this country might start building small, ...
tax is another form of insurance. If enough of the economy dodges tax then the things you can't afford yourself (e.g. a well set up hospital with trained, dedicated staff, or a police force with enough staff to investigate a burglary in your home) won't be...
Actually I think we do understand these narcissists. They spend all their effort on getting to the top of the pile. Short term gain is far more important than long term continuation. The Donald, Hoskins et al are suicide bombers.
The thing about this that really gets my goat is that last week The Donald was criticising members of NATO for not spending 2% of their GDP on their military like the USA does. This spending can't be to defend Europe from Russia can it? After all Putin is ...
After it is flooded mussel farming? Kelp farming?
Unfortunately SOME exotics will quickly become weeds. Madly planting every plant you come across is not the most sustainable ecology. One example is pinus radiata. We can grow it just about anywhere in this country, but shouldn't we be trying plantations ...
The way I look at this the minimal transport development bribe government could make to Auckland Council would be a double-tracked and straightened electric rail line from Marsden Point to Auckland and a double-tracked and electrified line to Mount ...
That's why compared to NZ the considerably more socialist states like Denmark, Norway and Finland are economic basket cases. Oh, wait, they aren't. Does that mean that neoliberal propaganda is the thing that always fails?
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