Or just fly a few jets around the world picking people up until everyone who wants to come home is home. I mean, if you can shut the country down and pay everyone to stay home you can surely buy a few planes and give the air force something to do while ...
Predicating your solutions on the assumption that everything has to be run through the commercial air travel sector is exactly how you end up with the miq fiasco.
No-one on earth is "pro-virus" and speaking in such terms makes you sound quite deranged.
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Times of great trouble are not an opportunity to lower standards and go against principle. Quite the opposite.
And therefore there was no possible better way to do it? FFS
"Gender reassignment surgery"? I thought according to the current orthodoxy "gender" had nothing to do with physical bodies. How can something non-physical be "reassigned" by surgery? Utter bullshit peddled by utter charlatans.
I agree, what's the point of even having a publicly owned broadcaster if it doesn't offer unquestioning fealty to every govt policy and utterance? The more enlightened states of China and Russia wouldn't tolerate such insubordination and I don't see why we...
As citizens we do have certain entitlements, entering the country is one. The MIQ lottery system has been an immoral and ill-conceived disaster from the beginning. It's exactly the kind of anti-human bullshit we should expect from a National government, ...
I like that formulation and I often use it when quoting jobs. But it doesn't so much apply when you have a virtually unlimited supply of labour and cash. Just one of the many joys of totalitarianism. Their hospital will be fine.
A lot. Many are rented out every weekend on aibnb and bookabach, but there are also a lot that just sit vacant for 50 weeks of the year.
About half of the houses in my provincial town sit empty most of the time, yep.
"He told me that to get a rental over there you go on a waiting list. At the time I was there, the wait was 7 years. He had started at number 700 and something and was down to 20 something at that time." Not saying that time-frame sounds ideal, but it is ...
11 years. Pathetic. The one in the video has 1500 beds for covid patients and was built in just over a week.
Um, perhaps you have been asleep for the last couple of years, but if the govt takes a problem seriously they have the resources available to literally shut down the whole country and pay everyone to stay home. This bullshit about constrained resources ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzU0tXKa2bI& People who say you can't solve problems by throwing money at them have never seen really large amounts of money being thrown with great precision.
You have it backwards. Without funding nothing will make any difference.
The govt can protect the health system any time they like by funding it properly. Perhaps if they hadn't spent the first year of the pandemic trying to screw the nurses out of a very modest pay raise I might be inclined to take their concerns about the ...
She's a gender crank, an ideologue and an apologist for regressive nonsense. Good riddance.
Nonsense. 10 years ago I could just afford a house. Today if I sell I could just afford a house. The value on paper is only value to a bank who, having added no value, will get to ream the next owner if I decide to follow your very wise advice and find a ...
My equity 10 years ago was one house worth of equity. It is still one house worth of equity. Please tell me exactly how I have benefitted from house price inflation.
"Still the case that 3.3 million benefited from house price rises." In fact if they bought anytime in the last decade they have obviously been massively disadvantaged by house price inflation.
Yes the banks have done very well out of the last decade. They even gave John Key a super sweet job to thank him for all his hard work overseeing it for them.
Pretty underwhelming list of routine measures to (maybe but probably not) keep pace with inflation. And it's highly dishonest to announce those benefit increases as if that's the amount people are actually going to get, as weka keeps pointing out and the ...
What makes you think homeowners benefit from house price inflation exactly? My house is apparently worth about a million more than it cost me 10 years ago but I haven't seen a cent of that million. I could sell it and be a homeless millionaire living in my...
Here you go incognito, operating surpluses for dummies: " From time to time there may be money left over. When this occurs, the government needs to weigh up carefully how it spends this money, just like any household would: The government could reduce its ...
Nah, from the govt's perspective a tax cut is a spend and it has to be budgeted for.
"Would be nice to see some appreciation for what the government is doing." Ok. I appreciate that the govt is responding to a poor poll result by trying to bribe its way back into favour.
Tax is govt income. Tax cuts are govt spending. Which is what You_Fool said.
This is a step backwards. The whole problem with recycling presently is that the incentive structure is all geared toward consuming more and more plastic containers. The recycling centres are incentivised by being paid by the tonne for "waste diverted from...
I think the fuel excise is already a flat levy per litre rather than a percentage. But yes being taxed for paying a tax does let you know what they really think of us.
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