The Councils could save that supposed $100 k for a referendum, and a great deal more besides by a very simple action. Just abolish the Maori Wards before the next election. That would save the $100 k and also the annual payments for each Councillor from a ...
I fear that the Maori Wards for local bodies are like the Maori electorates. The polling numbers there are always well down on the General Electorates. It is certainly difficult to see that it increases the participation of Maori in the electoral system. ...
She may not be too far out with the claim. The 2018 Census says there were 4986 Maori in the Manawatu District and it will have risen a bit since then. Her figure of 6,000 is probably not far out. The Census classifies you as Maori if you have any Maori ...
It was 5% of the people on the roll who had to sign the petition. That has nothing to do with how many might actually vote when the referendum is finally held. This does require an automatic referendum on all the Maori Wards that have been set up since the...
I am well aware of what the orange be-wigged idiot has said about NATO. I didn't think that the GOP would go along with him though. In December last year there was bi-partisan agreement that would require a super majority of the Senate to agree to such a ...
What is your evidence that the GOP has abandoned NATO. That link doesn't support the claim
If the Maori Ward Councillor on the Manawatu DC is typical I really don't think that anything is achieved by having people like her on any Council. She hasn't got the faintest idea about the proposed change to allow for referenda on the question. She ...
I shall reword it then, for your benefit. "He wasn't talking only about the war". That was why I said "the top rate was nothing like that number in any year after 1946".
I really don't see why one works and the other didn't. They look like the same link.
He wasn't talking about the war. He said it was right up to 1963. Your own link says "When the Labour government left office in 1949 the top income tax rate was 76.5%" which is much lower.
Sorry about that. Try https://www.treasury.govt.nz/sites/default/files/2012-09/twp12-04.pdf It is page number 9 in the report or 14 of the file at the top.
Where do you get those numbers? I haven't got the figures for each year in detail but according to the New Zealand Treasury the top rate was nothing like that number in any year after 1946. See the graph on page 9 of this link. Even if you include Social ...
"land value tax taxes capital gains" That is a silly comment. A land value tax is a tax on the ownership of land. It is charged whether the land value rises or falls. It isn't a Capital Gains Tax at all. No gains are required before it becomes due. The ...
"Now you are saying" Rubbish. I was arguing that wealth taxes are impossible to implement. I wasn't arguing for or against CGT or Estate taxes yesterday. I was only talking about Wealth taxes. If you read through what I said carefully your cognitive ...
Are you the same KJT as the one who made this comment yesterday? https://thestandard.org.nz/chris-hipkins-values-matter/#comment-1993906 There you seemed to be advocating for a wealth tax, which I would say was unworkable. Now you seem to be against them. ...
A Capital Gains tax is NOT a wealth tax. If you don't have any gain then you don't pay a CGT. That would be if you followed the old joke about airlines. How do make a small fortune? Start with a large fortune and buy an airline. If you list 3 types of ...
"Almost all countries in Europe have Capital gains and inheritance taxes. Wealth taxes" The majority of EU countries do NOT have wealth taxes. There are, in the EU and OECD European countries, only 3 which charge a net wealth tax. Another 4 charge some ...
@KJT. Does your comment mean that you don't have any evidence but you feelz that way?
'Most people's living standards have dropped ever since." And what is you evidence for this claim?
"Any joy devising a better method of calculation?" I thought you were joking when you asked for this. I would have thought you would have learnt this sort of thing at Primary School. It has nothing to do with Economics. It has nothing to do with Statistics...
I took my statistics from the Official New Zealand Government material on Vietnam. If I had to choose I assume that it will be more accurate than Wikipedia. On the other hand I did misquote it. It does not say there were only 3,000. It says there were over...
I suggest that you read and learn about Holyoake's action during the Vietnam. He opposed the war and went to extremes to ensure that we never sent anyone except volunteers to the country. Even the regular force members weren't sent there unless they ...
You sound a little like the person who accepted Stalin's dictum. "The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic." For the record the generally accepted big three of 20th century madmen were Hitler, Stalin and Mao who each ...
I would be of two minds. Muldoon or Palmer. I would go with Muldoon as the second worst. Best two are much easier. Holyoake was the best. Fraser was number two. I have a soft spot for Moore though. He saved Labour from extinction in just a couple of months...
You seem to have kept track of the dreadful comments that Jacinda Ardern had to put up with. Did you laugh and tell jokes about them? If not why do you do so when the remarks are about Luxon? Are you really so ignorant that you equate him with one of the ...
I'm not sure which of the pictures in this link I am supposed to be looking at. There seem to be hundreds of them. However if it is one that is claiming that PM Ardern was behaving like Hitler I will say that it is incredibly offensive, Comparing anyone, ...
I have never found claiming that someone is like Hitler was ever funny. And that is what those dopey bastards did. Such activities are never something to joke about. Never. Have a look at the picture of how they vandalised Luxon's picture. Then laugh. ...
Were you amused and did you laugh out loud when Hone Harawira's Office had shots fired at it? Helen Clark's Office was vandalised? James Shaw was assaulted? John Key's electorate office was fire-bombed? I suppose you thought they were hilarious if you "lol...
And the point is what precisely? Is it acceptable to vandalise an MPs Office? Can I evict a tenant because other people are attacking him? What are you advocating Patricia?
"Maybe the landlord should kick him out" It is people with attitudes like yours which encourages many MPs to buy their Electorate Office properties. They can rely on keeping the property available rather than be forced out by anti-social b******ds like ...
Why did you leave out the full meaning of NINJA? You say it was "No Income No Job". Why did you leave out the final bit that was No Assets? What is a no deposit loan but a loan to someone who has no assets?
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