ACC is more than adequately funded by PAYGO levies. As proven by the fact that it accumulates "reserves" like private insurance. Reserves which have basically been stolen from claimants who pay the levies.. Where cover has been refused or underpaid for all...
“Reporters”. « The Standard Once upon a time, in a world far away” we had these people called “reporters”. An honourable profession, who considered it their job to keep the public accurately and completely informed
Social and environmental concerns are some of our largest barriers to productivity. Except in the fevered fantasy world of Seymour and co. The blighted lives, and lost production, after the ACTIOD' s in 84 Labours and Richardson's National swath of ...
The issue is the total amount of firearms, in NZ, as I've made clear. capable of shooting a lot of people in a short time. Strawmanning me doesn't change that, or the fact that we shouldn't water it down for "special cases" that don't actually need them.
There is ample evidence that crims were obtaining guns from "responsible licenced gun owners". Whether by theft or sale. I didn't say from competive shooters. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/494168/escalated-gun-crime-expected-to-remain-a-problem-for-...
The nutter that wants more mass shootings?
Mind explaining how the speed you can fire lots of bullets affects the amount of skill required to hit a target. Note. I rather enjoyed competitive shooting in scouts many years ago. A bolt action 22 worked fine.
Not at all. Where do you think the crims were getting their guns from? "Law abiding firearms owner"s who were able to sell their unregistered guns to however they like. It may be true it is a minority, just like speeding drivers who crash are a minority. ...
The collapse of the global sytem will inivitably collapse NZ. We have already seen how that works, in several worldwide depressions. We don't have the capacity to transition to an internal economy. Successive Governments of all stripes have demolished ...
W've addressed it. We do not have sufficient local reserves of type or quantity for current consumption. So we depend on imports! Ergo. Whether it is refined here or offshore it is still imported. Interposing an expensive and outdated refinery doesn't ...
If we lose our import supply of oil then having a refinery is irrelevant. Whether we import oil to refine here, or import refined products, it is still subject to the same supply constraints. BTW. Renewables are not dependant on lithium. It currently makes...
There is absolutely no doubt we will transition to renewables. Either with a planned and staged transition, or, one forced by decreasing resources and and steadily more unliveable climate. Accompanied by wars and sociatal breakdown. Given the preponderance...
NZF has morphed into a party of idiots. Pandering to anti-vaccers, AGW deniers and other assorted fruit loops.
The oil shocks showed that it was immeterial whether we imported oil in refined or crude form. The local production is exported to where ever the oil companies can make the most money for it. If there are shortages in markets that can pay more, what do you...
We do produce our own crude. I was out there drilling for it. Not in enough quantity for the grades we need. We do produce enough for lube oils and maybe making composites? Resilience, and sustainability means transitioning to renewables, so we are not ...
Keeping a too small, inefficient, long past it's use by date, refinery, running, is Daft! Nothing to do with resiliance as the oil, whether refined or not, is imported anyway. We should be transitioning to sustainable energy produced locally, not ...
Such as following the successful parts of Scottish water as Labour was doing, instead of the disaster of privatisation in England which will be the coalition of chaos's ultimate aim. We don't have to look very far to see how dysfunctional NACT's "solutions...
How many people are earning over $100,000 at age 65 without owning their home and significant other assets? More than a few given the number of people I know who are in the situation of heading for 65 with few assets, because they have only just got to ...
Rather incoherent justifications there you have for removing universal super. I would have thought you would know better, than supporting the right wing in privatising and removing universal super. If it is removed, later generations will never get it back...
If you are working and getting super it is taxed at your marginal tax rate. The base amount before tax, is the same.
You can't equate removing super from universality to the other things you mention. It comes from the same suspects who want to privatise super altogether. "Work testing super, is only doing to middle class people with good health and well above the median ...
Those still working, on over 100k, are contributing both skilled work and paying tax. Those living off rents, however!
What about those receiving "investment income" from house hoarding? Making super non-universal is a very dangerous slippery slope. Of course if we taxed wealth acquisition from rentiers and capital gains tax farmers at the same rate as earnings from actual...
How the USA does social spending. Constant war! Their economy would collapse without it. Not to mention what they would do with all their angry young unemployed, if not for the army? Ironically the worlds largest "Socialist" State run enterprise, is the US...
However, on average the play for membership-based democracy doesn't actually yield a better candidate than just the caucus putting the new leader up there fait accompli. I'm not sure about that. May have avoided the ACT party hostile takeover of Labour in...
Decriminalisation needs to be coupled with adequate wages, welfare and social support for women, to be effective. The ongoing culture of mean spiritedness in all these areas, forces women into choices that they wouldn't otherwise make.
I take it that you are not a supporter of the current Government then? As their mean spirited welfare, wage, health, environmental and infrastructure policies are going to result in killing and/or, blighting, the lives of many thousands more children.
Seymour says he believes in "equal opportunity for all"! https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/seymour-slams-opposition-to-treaty-bill-takes-aim-at-key-ardern-in-state-of-the-nation-speech/ar-BB1hmh67?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=...
ACT is all about "property rights" and "keeping what your ancestors have possessed, unless you are brown and colonised. That is almost their entire reason for existence.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2023/11/15/anne-salmond-why-acts-treaty-referendum-is-disrespectful-and-arrogant/
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