Elon's rocket ship will end up increasing tourism (shorter flight time so many more flights) while also possibly reducing carbon footprint overall flights (not as much fuel burnt as it breaks out of atmosphere then skips into orbit re-entering over ...
I don't think the sun shines out of Bill Gates arse but I also don't think he deserves as much slagging as offered up here. Not all billionaires are sociopaths nor worker oppressing/exploiting parasites. There are a handful who are humanists worthy of some...
Yes ...if NZ asks Oz has to say yes, it's in their constitution. Benefits to NZ. 1) higher wages 2) no more compelled deportee kiwis 3) all kiwis eligible for Oz welfare 4) probable increase in Ozzies coming to NZ. 5) economies of scale 6) not such a huge ...
No fan of Joyce but the article seems reasonably reasonable.
Gabby if state continually builds state homes and brings in interest free/low interest State Advances Corporation home loans again, institutes rent-to-buy, co-equity model and a home saving scheme similar to Kiwisaver with first home buyers provisos ...
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Overall UBI means more economic activity not less. Lower end spend more money %-wise than rich (higher velocity) and the dollar of ubi they spend is multiplier as it passes through many hands. More money in hands will mean more spending as well as more ...
Exactly ...& UBI enables people to have financial floor and freedom to ascertain/determine their individual needs. For one it's childcare & extra hours at work, for another, less hours to care for child, another it's being enabled to volunteer, pursue art,...
UBI is not 'other peoples money' it is everybody's money. It is seeing every citizen as an equal stakeholder shareholder in NZ, Inc. Tax system can be reformed & made more fair. Gov can stop relying on just income tax & borrowing for income but actually ...
You see UBI just as a cost but fail to note multiplier effect. $1 of UBI could effectively create another $1 or more of economic activity as increase in economic activity occurs as result. Increased spending, increased sales, more jobs to service ...
Not just from adjusted income tax regime, but by bringing CGT, FTT, inheritance tax upgrade, repurposing GST towards funding UBI, by gov building a sovereign wealth fund and investing nationally and globally using dividends to return to citizens as a ...
What evidence? Plenty of evidence for UBI via many different trials over several decades but not much trial for UBS unless you're talking dismal failed state USSR & Cuba. Hardly an attractive option of moribund state capitalism ...No thanks!
We need to crawl before we walk. UBI is the next stage in socio-economic organisation & UBG & UBS are next stages further along the road of travel.
Nah, man you're wrong. How can you say having extra money in hand doesn't benefit in long run? Of course it effing does. Having more money is a benefit in itself. Enables people to clear debt, save, invest, buy property, start a small business, increases ...
Not really a slight easing of squezze as this boost basically gets singles ub benefit back to what it was (real terms) before Ruthenasia Black Budget cut of $14 So now where only $14 dollars or so off in real terms back then. Of course more is needed as ...
The neo-liberal & 'deserving poor' myth needs to knocked on head. UBI will mean a thinned down MSD as no longer need for huge bureaucracy of oversight, continual interviews/meetings, paperwork, applications, investigations, fraud cases etc etc. Many those ...
Universality stops the us vs them division ie we work & they bludge off our tax dollars paid. If every citizen is seen as an equal stakeholder/shareholder in society the envy towards rich & rich denigrating the poor lessens. Giving a UBI to rich reminds ...
Yeah a UBI would best response but doesn't need to be Superannuation level. With Unemployment for a single being boosted to just over &250 pw we just need to universalise that to all workers not waiting for them to lose jobs & go on unemployment. Direct ...
Right On, though he wasn't so shit in his early days.
Tinfoil hat territory but it's possible she didn't die from the disease but was knocked off for her whistleblowing by the CCP.
Look, if you see racism in laying out a fact (ie it started in Wuhan, China & Chinese actions/inactions helped it spread as they withheld info & misled) , you've got a problem. If everything is racist & fascist then ultimately nothing is ...the terms ...
... shovel is a shovel. KLW/CrimzonGhost, Libertarian Socialist.
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He has a few countries that will be vying to try him ...Iraq, Syria, Kurds, maybe even Turkey.
Yeah, but then NZ taxpayer has to pay to keep him in prison. any allowance ofeventual return (if he is not subject to death penalty for his crimes in countries where he participated in crimes against humanity) should entail full confession & reporting of ...
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