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 ...
Unlike NZ Governments, the Norwegian Government didn't pay the oil companies to take it away. The concessions NZ gave to even get oil companies to bring exploration rigs here, gives a good indication of the lack of economic benefits they expected.
If, the oil companies had found economically extractable oil in the Great South Basin, they would already be using it.
Please explain? How continuing to spend billions in supporting overseas oil companies, is better for an economy than using locally available renewables? That is before we even consider the costs of mitigation of long term climate change. We have just had ...
The "other element" is well known. Unlike State schools, religious schools can pick and choose their students.
Dependable unconscious satire. Again!
... for the "elite" of course. KJT. Random musings on all sorts... of National’s “Education” policy. (kjt-kt.blogspot.com) This is...
Note the decline in achievement in schools are the cohort that went through most of their schooling during the previous Governments NACT standards. But why use evidence to decide on educational policy.
Given the "success" rate of State care it is almost always a better option to support the family to care for children. There are cases where Social workers are in a damned if you do and damned if you don't. Difficult all around. Easy to judge with 20/20 ...
"For all of Israels shitty behaviour, they are the good guys in this.". One thing you can rely on with defenders of mass murderers. Unconscious satire!
It would be rather a long comment if I mentioned every bunch of baby bombers in every comment. Currently rather a few around the world. This thread is about the IDF's efforts in that regard.
Is there a rule that both sides have to be mentioned in every comment? Or. Did you just make that up?
If you had been paying attention you would know that I don't have any time for those who bomb babies. No matter what "side" they profess to be on.
Those "perpetuating hatred against the Jewish community" are those who have just murdered and injured thousands of Palistinian civilians. Something which some seem unable to comprehend.
Did you even comprehend one line of the comment?
Who are doing the "ethnic cleansing' in reality. Since 2006 alone. Though the "clearance" of Palistinians has been going on since before 1948. Who are the "Terrorists"? Operation Summer Rains (June 2006) Operation Autumn Clouds (October-November 2006) ...
National don't want to solve it. They want it to be a fuckup so they can privatise! Just like their creeping privatisation of our public health system, that has, and is, causing it's demise
Oh dear. How sad! National and the Nazis will have a "handbrake". A good thing in this instance
That is exactly what it is. On the contrary, NZ was one off the world leaders in the Neo-liberal charge, albeit in the wrong direction in the 80's and 90's. We had the architects from NZ as "Gurus" lecturing other Governments on how to boil their people ...
Similarly Seymour and other advocates of "hard work", by others, are never that keen on their "economic producing units" having a fair share of what they produce.
Have you bothered to read ACT's policies? As for National being on the "centre"! Wait until next year.
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