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Comment:Open mike 21/03/2024
Date published: 7:42 pm, March 21st, 2024Illegal. Unlike civilised countries. Finland Strikes. Though note the new right wing Government wants to place limits on the right to strike. Strikes, as a non violent political protest, should have remained legal in any society which pretends to be ...
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Comment:Daily review 21/03/2024
Date published: 7:32 pm, March 21st, 2024Meanwhile. More civilised countries still have the right to strike.
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Comment:Open mike 21/03/2024
Date published: 6:27 pm, March 21st, 2024National and the Reserve Bank have been talking the country into a recession for at least a year. And real business confidence, as reflected by investment in plant and staff, not the perceptions held by the delusional, in the near future is non existent, ...
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Comment:Tell Auckland Council don't privatise the Port
Date published: 8:37 pm, March 19th, 2024Auckland exists, because of the port.
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Comment:Tell Auckland Council don't privatise the Port
Date published: 8:36 pm, March 19th, 2024How to say in several different ways, that you haven't a bloody clue about shipping. Don't know where you got 3% from, but that is total rubbish. After the Kaikoura earthquake Lytelton/Auckland shipping took the freight that road and rail could not.
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Comment:Open mike 18/03/2024
Date published: 6:52 am, March 19th, 2024That is what really incensed the, laughably called "centre right" . The country had an example of the effectiveness of Government putting people first, ahead of 'their' profits. A people working together for good, instead of for the increased wealth of ...
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Comment:Open mike 18/03/2024
Date published: 7:59 pm, March 18th, 2024Things such as upgrading schools and infrastructure, road safety improvements to name just a few. Keeping everyone in jobs during and after COVID. Wasted? You really want to see waste. Just hold my beer, for the next three years. Watch the recession, ...
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Comment:Tell Auckland Council don't privatise the Port
Date published: 5:36 pm, March 18th, 2024You have no bloody idea. Coastal shipping pays it's own way, including paying the artificial profit levels imposed on infrastructure/ports. Roads are not expected to make a profit. Also Ports have a requirement to make an additional artificial opportunity ...
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Comment:Open mike 18/03/2024
Date published: 2:36 pm, March 18th, 2024We live in a mirror image of a Robin Hood society, one in which resources are indeed being redistributed, not downward, from rich to poor, as Robin Hood was reputed to do, but upward, from poor to rich," Case and Deaton argued.
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Comment:Tell Auckland Council don't privatise the Port
Date published: 1:47 pm, March 18th, 2024Extremely foolish. Given the need for more, not less, environmentally and economically more efficient coastal shipping. Privatisation of ports, puts shipping at even more of a disadvantage compared to heavily subsidised trucking. While there is a case for ...
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Comment:Open mike 18/03/2024
Date published: 1:18 pm, March 18th, 2024I love right wing tragics when they are being satirical.
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Comment:Open mike 15/03/2024
Date published: 2:58 pm, March 15th, 2024Yep. Went after Meteria was dumped. Funny that.
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Comment:Open mike 15/03/2024
Date published: 11:03 am, March 15th, 2024Meteria went there with the full agreement of the party hierarchy. In fact Greens went up in the polls after that. So. The idea that she disadvantaged the party is debatable.
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Comment:Tax cuts for landlords will not reduce rents
Date published: 10:41 am, March 15th, 2024Unfortunately. A work around is needed.
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Comment:Tax cuts for landlords will not reduce rents
Date published: 10:40 am, March 15th, 2024No problem. Not the first time a debate has hinged on semantics, not disagreement. Something people who want to slant polling are also well aware of. I often struggle on here with the need to write for many people's different backgrounds and training, with...
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Comment:Tax cuts for landlords will not reduce rents
Date published: 9:32 am, March 15th, 2024Objections to tax on a primary residence for capital gains can be removed by putting a floor on it. Even my National voting business mates, agree Key should have been taxed on his 10 million property windfall in Auckland. They don't agree the average house...
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Comment:Open mike 15/03/2024
Date published: 9:12 am, March 15th, 2024Meteria was following Green party principles. The fact that some in the party threw her under the bus was not a good look. Golriz was clear mental health issues. I would be sympathetic to anyone in that case regardless of party. I didn't join the ...
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Comment:Tax cuts for landlords will not reduce rents
Date published: 8:42 am, March 15th, 2024In fact, if you are, for example, a builder in the business of building houses and you build a "spec house" or renovate a house, whether you live in it or not, you are liable for tax on total earnings from the sale. Less expenses of course. That is treated...
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Comment:Tax cuts for landlords will not reduce rents
Date published: 8:29 am, March 15th, 2024The "purpose of raising the loan" is to make a tax free capital gain on sale of the property. Land prices are too high to make rentals a viable ongoing business. And force many more people into renting. Paying the landlords mortgage. This, of course, has ...
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Comment:Tax cuts for landlords will not reduce rents
Date published: 8:12 am, March 15th, 2024Even Adam Smith, the guru of capitalism, argued that unearned income, such as land rents, should be taxed rather than work income. Your position isn't even logical. And definitely economically counter productive. In NZ with the current tax settings, we are...
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Comment:Daily review 14/03/2024
Date published: 7:59 am, March 15th, 2024Department of PM and Cabinet responds amid feud between David Seymour and Government-funded centre director over 'death cult' comments | Newshub Te Whatu Ora chair Rob Campbell sacked | RNZ Very obvious how NACT view "free speech". Only allowed for their ...
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Comment:Luxon on rents - another National economic idiot
Date published: 7:16 pm, March 14th, 2024I see a whole flight of pink pigs here. Don't worry. If the Coalition of economic incoherence sees any sign of house prices or rents decreasing, they will, like Key, open the immigration tap some more to ensure they stay high. Got to look after the ...
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Comment:Daily review 14/03/2024
Date published: 6:58 pm, March 14th, 2024Yet another example of what ACT really thinks about 'Free speech", to go with the reaction to Fiona Kidman and Rob Campbell. Newshub
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Comment:Tax cuts for landlords will not reduce rents
Date published: 10:06 am, March 13th, 2024My point is that if land speculators expect tax deductability of interest, then capital gains tax should be on the corresponding income, consequent increase in wealth. That would be consistent with other forms of income.
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Comment:Tax cuts for landlords will not reduce rents
Date published: 10:03 am, March 13th, 2024https://theconversation.com/nzs-housing-market-drives-inequality-why-not-just-tax-houses-like-any-other-income-208003
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Comment:Tax cuts for landlords will not reduce rents
Date published: 10:34 pm, March 12th, 2024Not correct. For a productive business to be worth more over time, generally value has to be added to it. Land appreciates just by existing, currently, as the result of speculation and rent. Look up" the chain across the river". Sunday Essay: The chain ...
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Comment:Tax cuts for landlords will not reduce rents
Date published: 8:57 pm, March 12th, 2024The difference is, with machinery, if you depreciate it and then sell it for more than the depreciated book value, you have to cough up tax on the difference. Remembering it when people sell big stationary Tanner power tooling that actually appreciates. ...
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Comment:Open mike 10/03/2024
Date published: 7:58 pm, March 10th, 2024In which we see the right wings "proponents of free speech" , real attitude to Free speech. Hurricanes Poua lash out at government in revamped haka | RNZ News Luxon says ousted health boss Rob Campbell should be sacked from EPA too | RNZ News
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Comment:Open mike 09/03/2024
Date published: 7:33 am, March 10th, 2024No different from Trump, then!
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Comment:"Deliberate nuclear use
Date published: 7:47 pm, March 9th, 2024"Deterrence working".
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Comment:Luxon crashes in latest Curia poll
Date published: 7:44 pm, March 9th, 2024Curia's "business model" is giving those that pay for their polls, the answers that want.
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