"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?
And his final gift to New Zealand. He might have been a nice guy BUT - He left us in a Recession. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/gdp-is-new-zealand-in-recession-we-find-out-today/Y32IL4XXMBH6BC66XYWGNPHGPE/
"allow no deposit mortgages". A person who wants a repeat of the subprime mortgages that was a major cause of the GFC of 2007-2008. As George Santayana so eloquently put it. “Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Is HS2 a Government or a private company project?
"they didn’t even think to ask", They may have. If they found that they had registered, and therefore were entitled to use the song they may simply have left that out of the story. (I assume that is how it works. I don't know anything much about Apra). ...
I suppose that there use of the song had one effect. I, like most other people I would guess, had never heard of the band. Now I have, although I doubt it will lead to their revival or a Super Bowl halftime show appearance.
Putin might play? Trump seems to an admirer of his. Please God, don't let Trump get back into the Oval Office. I would rather have a forgetful Biden to a mad Trump who seems to think he is running against Obama.
"On balance I don't see this as bad". On this I would agree with you. Why do we need a largely container terminal in the centre of a city? When you talk about the 1970s we must realise why there would have been so many ships around. Nowadays international ...
I have no idea where Robertson squandered all the money he borrowed. I doubt if even he could tell you. Of course the borrowing was below the OECD average. That was because when he started we had almost no debt. According to the graph you posted it must ...
I doubt he would be much help. According to the only source I found with Google he is only worth about $10 million. Trump really does have some great friends, doesn't he? Why am I not surprised? The ones I picked were because they were seriously rich, ...
I wish I was broke if this is what it means. I imagine that Musk, Bezos, or even Zuckerberg would find it difficult to get anyone willing to guarantee the payment of a debt that size. Perhaps Arnault could help him out. For Trump, who has made a career out...
"You do realise that ..... " Yes, and I also realise that the interest we have to pay on the $100 billion or so that Robbo borrowed isn't making it any easier to get to a budget surplus. It might not matter if it had actually been invested in something ...
I'm afraid that it was Robertson's two terms as Minister of Finance that demonstrated the truth of Karl Marx's statement. To paraphrase what he said. Robertson's two terms were an example of history repeating. His first term was tragedy. His second was ...
The first graph in Michael Reddell's link (Croaking Cassandra) shows exactly what I said. New Zealand debt rose in a nearly straight line from about 4% in 2019 to around 16% in 2023. It never declined at all and was forecast, by the OECD to keep going up ...
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