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/
The cognitive dissonance, hypocrisy and inconsistency of ACT. The party of "property rights" ( and inherited privilege for white, wealthy people) opposing the "property rights" of Mãori.
"Income tax" 60% of all! tax is paid by middle income earners. Note whenever someone says the wealthy pay a major proportion of tax they carefully exclude the many other taxes such as GST. And another form of taxation, user pays fees for State services. ...
On the contrary, tax on realisation such as CGT and inheritance is the easiest to implement, the value is much easier to quaintify on realisation. More importantly, the easiest to understand and "sell" politically. Taxes on unrealised wealth are a ...
Merry Christmas, Happy Saturnalia, mid winter (Transposed) festival and a cool Yule for you all.
Back to the 1890's!
Just a few of many. A relative employed for milking. Sacked on day 89 as the farmer only wanted a short term employee. He left a permanent job for the farm job who, as it turned out, only wanted someone for a few months The local fast food chain. in Keys ...
The "benefit" was preventing a lot of employers screaming about being hard done by. Noting that the employers I've seen using 90 day trials, were abusing them.
And a tax when the income is recieved is much more palatable. Capital gains and inheritance. Should be set at a level that doesn't capture assets under the value of a normal "Family home in Auckland"?
The absolute lunacy of cancelling the rail ferry project. This piece of infrstructure vandalism, which seems to be SOP for the new Government will cost many more times 3 billion, over time. Kicking the can down the road , resulting in long term ...
Universal income study finds money for nothing won't make us work less | New Scientist A foreign concept to right wingers. Working for anything other than personal reward. And the corollary, something beyond their comprehension, working despite being paid ...
Covid has highlighted how much to many NZ businesses don't have a real business. Too many rely on underpaid and exploited workers, especially those on temporary visas.
" publicly apologised for their behaviour?" That would show a level of maturity and self awareness, most of them lack.
Oh. Bollocks. I know of many examples where one of the "Good ol boys" has made a dick of themselves in a public place. It has not even been considered worthy of more than passing remark. Definitely not greeted with all this bullshit. Most of us have been ...
Comic.
One rule for them (Brown, young and female left wing) and one rule for "the right stuff" (White right wing etc) eh? The hypocrisy is breath taking.
Refused to appear on Hoskings typical regurgitation of his own misinformed reckons, without giving Jacinda Adern, time to speak. Perfectly understandable.
Ending Government oil gas subsidies. Impossible to quantify the current and ongoing costs of Greenhouse gases and other continued pollution of using oil for energy. However the amounts required for ever more severe weather events is in the billions. A ...
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