I waiting for the international incident that will be manufactured to take the heat of Trump and Congress. Maybe a small Marine boat with 3 or 4 crew will become disabled and found/rescued/imprisoned by the Chinese/Iranians/North Koreans. Where is the Gulf...
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Good start but there are problems. Tax efficiency. PAYE has a cost of about 10 cents to the $100, that is 0.1%. Specific taxes are usually very expensive to administer,for example the old television (receiving station) licence was about $10 to the $100, ...
Hi Ad, IMO the model of having the GG guide multiple coalition discussions at once is un-necessary. Muliple coalition discussions were held at the end of the voting process and a result was arrived at. The difference between involving the GG and not ...
Seeking NZF continued existence is achieved firstly, and chiefly, by being relevant. By this I mean that it has policy, politicians and a party apparatus that by connect it to a sector of society. Getting some changes in the Secondly, there are technical ...
It's troubling that NZ now has its very own " Irish problem." In his Modest Proposal Swift highlighted the plight of Irish peasantry and the indifference of the English ruling classes to the starvation occurring. Going through a social investment framework...
Even this has some problems. I read The Atlantic and know its editorial position is liberal democratic US exceptionalism. I read the Intercept and know its starting point. The issue is when media is presented as unbiased because that just doesn't happen. ...
Cleangreen, I don't understand or like the "we." Unless you are a member of the Government, then what is this "we." (It's like when the All Blacks win and people say "we won." Really, I (and probably you) had next to nothing to creating this win. ) Back to...
Michelle Boag is known to hold a vendetta and then exact punative utu for the smallest of perceived slights. This is why she continues to gets access to media. However, IMO once a crack appears, it is highly likely that her power base will disintegrate ...
Low productivity growth in NZ has been a key determinant in why the economy has struggled. Productivity is in part determined by low competition. Take for example KiwiSaver. Increasing the size of the funds invested does not increase the costs of the ...
OAB given that the General Election is the biggest opinion poll that is carried out in NZ, I believe that it has a result that can carry a statistically valid inference to how the entire voting age population. I'm not sureally which battle you are fighting...
I think you are wrong by limiting the Dirty Politics to Joyce and English. There are other like Collins and Bennet who have been initimitely involved in this approach. No doubt the culture of the parliamentary National Party is heavily tilted to finding ...
NZF having C and S arrangement with Labour gives NZF the same result, ie being able to cherry-pick legislation they would support. And they wouldn't have to endure Bill & Steven (and Paula.) But that cherry-picking of legislation is limited by: 1. The ...
I agree that RL action of putting in comments as a moderator is exploiting a power imbalance between him and Tracey. This behaviour needs to be acknowledged and stop.
The Executive Council, which is populated by Ministers of the Crown (who need not necessarily be Cabinet Ministers but usually are) makes Orders in Council. Caucus refers to the members of a parliamentary arm of a political party, and I don't think has any...
The TPPA11 needs to be ratified. The issue with this it is probable that the treaty would have to be ratified. NZF would not support this at an Executive level, so does this mean that Parliament would ratify the treaty. If so, then that really becomes a ...
Developing a mechanism to ensure the longevity of NZF will not be achieved by gifting an electorate seat. Look at Act in Epsom to confirm this. Electoral longevity for NZF has to be centred on maintaining relevance amongst the electors. This means it is ...
Can anybody explain the difference. A. Students and other visa holders have recently had their visas cancelled and left, via deportation or threat of deportation, once it was found that information on their applications was incorrect (or in one case when ...
Keep going back into the 1930's and there was also a rural weighting on FPP. A rural vote was worth 25 % more than an urban vote by reducing the number of voters in a rural seat. The predecessor to Federated Farmers raised a war chest of 200,000 pounds and...
Sean Plunket initially claimed no knowledge of the tweets and that he hadn't tweeted that night. Shortly after he acknowledged responsibility for the tweets. That is two lies: 1. No knowledge of tweets; and, 2. He hadn't tweeted that night. A liar and a ...
Just checked the NZ Immigration site, the new minimum is $3m.
The standard immigration ruse for wealthy immigrants (ie those going to invest $1.5m or more) is to set up a company, the company buys a large property (that may or may not be in Epsom, Wanaka, Havelock North etc) and a Bed and Breakfast is established. ...
It came to me overnight. No drugs, no alcohol, so it must have been the cheese. The answer as to who NZF will choose for Government is both. No wait and keep reading. For one half of the term NZF goes with National, and then for the other half of the term ...
Not wanting to be nerdy constitionalist but I note: (iv) any agreement with one or more political parties that includes confidence and supply votes will be referred to an SGM, unless the National Executive agree that an alternative method of consultation ...
Previously I commented that after the Flag Referendum that the next time a flag change is debated that it was likely to be at the point of gun. My guess is that Australia (or America or China or Indonesia) will come looking for some water and arable land.
We're having a garden party: One that involves lots of shovels, sweat and plants. Fruit trees, berries, vines, citrus, nut trees are the order of the day. The new house dates from the 1950s but has no garden out back except for 4 trees. Anyway, we are on a...
The point is that being a Government that got less votes than your opposition did not, and does not, necessarily make it illegitimate. People may be pissed off, but it doesn't stop them from saying that under this set of rules the Government is legitimate ...
IMO the legitimacy of a Government argument is a hard barrow to push in NZ, in that if you are the Government you are the Government to the point that you are not the Government. There have been occasions under FPP in NZ where the party with the largest ...
Hi time, I am not too sure where you are going with your comment. I think the logic is pay more in salaries means employees pay more in tax, which means more can spent on social welfare, education etc. Does this mean that you support the minimum wage to go...
Fonterra, like Dr Smith, are also playing fast and loose with definitions. The programme of fencing waterways is defined (going from memory) encompassing bodies of water at least 1m wide and continuously flowing. So automatically the Selwyn and many other ...
JC, I took the mid-point of each of the pay brackets you provided above and multiplied that by the number of employees in each of the pay brackets. The grand total comes to $773,500,000. Yes, that is $773 million dollars. For each farmer that that is a ...
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