It's certainly possible, but would work better as a minimum tax e.g. tax on profits but not less than 5% of turnover (to pick a random number out of the air), than as a replacement for income tax on profits, not least because that would incentivise ...
Manchin faced a contested primary last time he ran, won heavily, and then his opponent from that primary was the D candidate in the other WV senate seat in 2020 and got trounced in the general election. Sinema is toast however.
Some of that is a natural consequence of the R Party becoming so extreme that previous Rs have defected to D.
He's a bit late - https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2001/0035/latest/LMS350017.html is the relevant legislation, and it was added in May 2020. Maximum delays are 6 weeks at a time, although they can be delayed. The Chief Electoral Officer can delay ...
The Bail Act does not refer to epidemics or Covid as reasons for setting bail conditions. Schedule 5 of the current Covid Public Health Response Order regarding alert level requirements (https://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/2021/0237/latest/...
Bail conditions include the defendant's residential address where the electronic monitoring will be, how they will be transported to that address, and by whom - in theory that could be Corrections, but in this particular case, it wasn't (and it normally ...
No, a specified person did - they aren't saying who, but it was part of the bail conditions.
And that the reason Corrections didn't drop them off is that wasn't in the bail conditions, although she also made the point that would be unusual.
Sure, but there is still a marked difference between life under L4 and life in a remand prison.
The Court sets the bail conditions for electronic monitoring, not Corrections, and Covid/Epidemics are not mentioned in the Bail Act, so Covid levels aren't a consideration other than practicality of whether conditions can be monitored/met. There is the ...
Epidemics and Covid don't feature in the Bail Act, so moving someone from a remand prison in level 4 to an address in level 2 isn't really envisaged as a reason not to do it provided the bail address meets the general requirements of the Bail Act.
Not being locked up is a right, and being charged with something, but not convicted, shouldn't abrogate that right without some serious safeguards. Bail is legal recognition of that right.
But given how much the US spends even as a % of GDP, why wouldn't anyone in an alliance with them rely on them heavily? Isn't that basically what everyone is getting by signing up with them?
The main thing holding it up was appeals as far as I can tell. Maybe instead of throwing the whole thing out, fund the appellate tribunal better (delays have been an issue for years) and expedite the appeals in these instances?
There is, particularly the Laffer curve, but 33% isn't it.
It was granted on appeal, rather than by Immigration NZ in this particular case - INZ wanted to decline it and have taken all legal steps since to deport him.
Most of the election coverage is online somewhere on Youtube and as a tragic, I rewatched some of it last election. Even knowing the outcome, the 2005 election coverage is amusing as Mike Williams spends all night predicting that Labour will come from ...
The DHBs are independent of the government, and delight in telling them that from time to time. Operational staffing comes under DHB purview, not the Ministry of Health. That's why DHBs are being abolished - the government has rolled out massive policies ...
Employment NZ is the front-facing website of the Labour Inspectorate, and it is correct that employment law does not define full time employment, other than to say that employees who work 5 days in a week should not work more than 40 hours unless by ...
Particularly since Labour votes didn't really move that much - the bigger change was the right wing coalescing around the Tories rather than splitting between the Tories and UKIP.
Managing a vaccination programme within their boundaries should entirely be within the remit and capability of DHBs. That it turned out it wasn't is a failure of DHBs and also the ongoing monitoring/auditing.
I agree, and I think there is an unstated primary goal of maintaining the current fiscal and macreconomic parameters/paradigm, and all other goals are secondary to that.
There are quick fixes, but they probably aren't practical or advisable. Passing legislation that houses may not be sold for more than RV or a percentage of RV, would be one way, and another would be going through with a lot more compulsory purchase at RV ...
Freedom to buy and sell houses as people wish essentially creates a free-ish market. Moving away from that, even in (and possibly especially in) housing, is a paradigm shift. I hope to see it, especially with respect to the ability to own multiple houses, ...
Prevent injury rather than accidents might have been a better way to frame it, but it does seem a bit difficult for ACC to prevent either way...
Something Must Be Done, and This is Something.
She usually has more time and it's usually some sort of speech/discussion/Q&A from the floor, so it's not quite the same format as the telly, and also a bit less likely to be publicly reported as much, but that's commentary on the format rather than her ...
Totally agree, we produce enough food for 40 million people, if we cut the sector in half, we would still be producing an exportable surplus.
That's a tough area because although IRD can be called on to judge charitable purpose for donee organisations, mostly that's handled by DIA through the Charities Service. Important work though.
I gave some concrete examples, particularly slavery moving from being generally acceptable to the usage of eugenics arguments as the reason for continuing American slavery until eventually the American Civil War happened because the South would not give up...
Sounds like a more organised approach than ours which would be nice...
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