BTW if you feel strongly about gun control I urge you to email to your local MP, Police Minister Stuart Nash and the PM. Remember pro-gun proponents are many and very vocal which is why effective gun control since Aramoana has been shelved so often. Those ...
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 5:35 am, March 21st, 2019 - 185 comments
Categories: chris bishop, john banks, paula bennett, Politics, Simon Bridges, stuart nash, winston peters
Tags: Aramoana, gun control, gun lobby, guns, MSSA, nra, select committee
… events of Friday. His leader, Simon Bridges has definitely thrown in… the internet Restrict gun advertising (Simon Louisson reported for The Wall Street…
Paula Benefit says poll shows Nats doing "pretty well" https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/02/paula-bennett-says-national-s-doing-pretty-well-despite-disastrous-poll.html - probably as well as Nats did with their "pretty legal" Eminem rip-off
The question you pose in your headline, but never attempt to answer, is simply answered in one word - taxes. More specifically how taxes are imposed. This is the main way governments influence economies. This government partially understands that, which is...
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 2:20 pm, November 7th, 2018 - 14 comments
Categories: business, capitalism, economy, Economy, employment, making shit up, unemployment
Tags: business confidence, economy, unemployment
[caption id="attachment_2123755" align="alignright" width="300"] Olly Hartless[/caption]As predicted by the ANZ Bank’s dire business confidence surveys, today’s unemployment data revealed that unemployment has fallen to a disastrous level of 3.9 percent, …
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 4:26 pm, October 25th, 2018 - 21 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, capitalism, corruption, democracy under attack, electoral commission, parliamentary spending, Politics
Tags: corruption, donations, influence
… recording of National Party leader Simon Bridges with Ross is that… work that strongly challenges inequality. (Simon Louisson reported for The Wall Street…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 3:32 pm, October 18th, 2018 - 207 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, Dirty Politics, electoral commission, national, Politics, Simon Bridges
Tags: china, corruption, donations, influence
…-Lee Ross’s recording of Simon Bridges has been widely characterised… advised by Dirty Politics actor Simon Lusk, claims the rationale for… – National has no moral compass. (Simon Louisson reported for The Wall Street…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 12:41 pm, October 16th, 2018 - 171 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, by-election, corruption, Dirty Politics, elections, Politics, Simon Bridges
Tags: jamie-lee ross, Todd mcclay
…corrupt practices against party leader Simon Bridges. In a stand-… corrupt practice. I know Simon filed a false return because… corrupt practice. I believe Simon Bridges is a corrupt politician… up the $100,000. (Simon Louisson reported for The Wall Street…
Latest according to Stuff is that the council is in the process of abandoning the dreaded hub system https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/107319138/wellingtons-controversial-new-bus-hubs-to-be-reviewed-as-some-are-still-being-built - such is the power of The ...
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 12:28 pm, September 24th, 2018 - 66 comments
Categories: boycott, Environment, public transport, transport, workers' rights
Tags: buses, Chris Laidlaw, Greater Wellington Regional Council, wellington
…, Donaldson and Swain understood it. (Simon Louisson is a former reporter for…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 6:10 pm, September 21st, 2018 - 66 comments
Categories: business, capital gains, capitalism, gst, tax
Tags: capital gains tax, Sir Michael Cullen, sugar tax, tax, tax working group
… be our next prime minister. (Simon Louisson reported for The Wall Street…
You're right about the typo -- it should have been 0.5% but the annualised figure of 4% is ok -- that is the current run rate - multiplying the last quarter by 4. The historical annual average growth rate for the last year was 2.7% -- essentially adding ...
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 1:29 pm, September 20th, 2018 - 99 comments
Categories: business, capitalism, economy, Economy
Tags: business confidence, economic growth, GDP
…, and National scored 4.9. (Simon Louisson has reported for The Wall…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 11:26 am, September 13th, 2018 - 17 comments
Categories: business, capitalism, economy, Economy, employment, farming
Tags: fair pay, fonterra
… at the trough closing ranks. (Simon Louisson is a former journalist who…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 1:20 pm, March 7th, 2018 - 32 comments
Categories: business, capital gains, Economy, economy, election 2020, Environment, ETS, Financial markets, gst, Maori Issues, tax
Tags: capital gains tax, carbon tax, Cullen, tax working group
… on submissions@taxworkinggroup.govt.nz (Simon Louisson is a retired journalist who…
... promote. Their statements are telling. Simon Bridges says his priority would...
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 4:34 pm, February 14th, 2018 - 123 comments
Categories: business, capitalism, economy, Economy, Financial markets, housing, kiwisaver
Tags: building boom, fletcher building, shares
… announcement, Citi Research Equities analyst Simon Thackray queried how it was…, has expertise in this area. (Simon Louisson is a retired journalist who…
I am not sure the science of A2 is that relevant to this discussion - the point is A2 the company has a product and a market that adds significant value. As a company, A2 has moved away from commodities and added huge value to shareholders.
Brian Gaynor's article about A2 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11947698
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 6:10 pm, February 9th, 2018 - 109 comments
Categories: business, Economy, economy, Environment, farming, farming, Financial markets, water
Tags: dairy farming, dirty water, Environment, fonterra, investments
… than changing its untenable structure. (Simon Louisson is a retired journalist who…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 8:19 am, February 4th, 2018 - 108 comments
Categories: election 2017, MMP, national, Politics, same old national
Tags:
… leadership contenders like Amy Adams, Simon Bridges or Nikki Kaye at… spent and amen to that. Simon Louisson is a former journalist who…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 2:11 pm, January 21st, 2018 - 35 comments
Categories: Conservation, farming, labour, national, Privatisation
Tags: foreign ownership
A feature in yesterday’s Domion Post Weekend lays bare the extent of the scandalous selloff of huge tracts of our high country. Charlie Mitchell’s report details how the tenure review of the high country has been conducted since it began in 1992 when many …
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 1:45 pm, January 19th, 2018 - 22 comments
Categories: accountability, Economy, journalism, labour, national, Politics, same old national, spin
Tags: leaky buildings, memes, nanny state, welfare state
… and not apologise for it. Simon Louisson is a retired journalist who…
Fonterra? This is a company that is in faster reversal than Fletcher Building. Its flawed policy of ever increasing volume will come under threat from new government policies to protect the environment and as farmers realise the volume game is dumb. Take a...
The telling comment from Winston Peters: “For too many New Zealanders capitalism has not been their friend but their foe, ” Peters said, claiming vulnerable New Zealanders had been left behind while the political elite got richer. “We believe capitalism ...
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 12:30 pm, October 14th, 2017 - 104 comments
Categories: bill english, capital gains, don brash, Economy, gst, john key, labour, tax, winston peters
Tags: gareth morgan, IMF, income inequality, oecd
… that enough is not enough. Simon Louisson formerly worked for The Wall…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 4:36 pm, September 25th, 2017 - 178 comments
Categories: accountability, capital gains, Economy, election 2017, grant robertson, gst, jacinda ardern, labour, national, Politics, tax, winston peters
Tags: lakoff
… disappointment at the next election. (Simon Louisson formerly worked for The Wall…
Labour has no one but itself to blame for the dogshit it has stepped into on tax. Why, after nine years in opposition, was it not able to take a fully-fleshed out tax policy to voters? Why on earth does it say it needs yet another Tax Working Group to ...
Does pest free mean getting rid of Nats (gnats)?
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 9:30 am, May 16th, 2016 - 15 comments
Categories: capitalism, Economy, Environment, sustainability
Tags: fishing industry, quota
… vessels and at port coverage.” (Simon Louisson formerly worked for The Wall…
Build a bridge and get over it
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