There definitely isn't enough land for the 450 metre square ranch style dwelling with four car garage that the cabinets' mates build. I mean you do need at least one hectare to put in a decent drive and a practice golf hole in the front yard.
How about the government forgiving the early taxes of start-ups for a share in the company and the company's profits later? Government shareholder representative could give advice to assist in the development of the company.
Good point, Wonderpup. That's why there is one thing wrong with Advantage's original article's statement that these millionaires are "acting against their rational self-interest". They aren't. These millionaires must recognise there is rational self-...
I want to know what drugs he is on
If they find oil and extract it your grandchildren wont have any tea because climate change will have wiped out the tea plantations. Timetostopoil
Ok so the UK manages to snatch Gibraltar back from a Spanish invasion by landing an Air/sea invasion force. What then? Where would negotiations over Brexit fall then? Wouldn't the EU have to side with Spain? What would happen to NATO? Wouldn't Putin be ...
Climate change will flood Florida. Trump has declared war on Florida just as certainly as Al Qaeda declared war on New York.
The market for coal-fired power stations in the USA is poor, as fracking has produced cheap natural gas which can be burnt in plants which can be built faster than coal boiler plants. Therefore "cheap coal" won't big in the USA under Trump. Even if more ...
One thing China could note is that our largest company is a co-operative, Fronterra is owned by the farmers that supply it with milk. it is a model that could be used for conversion of State owned companies into more competitive capitalist firms without ...
Ass Leap While Wanking, you offend me. If you oppose abortion and are lukewarm on family planning like some Dipton sheepfarmers, you will get an increase in population even if you don't encourage immigration. If you don't provide really cheap, quality ...
Every time a right wing politician promises to "reform the RMA" you can guarantee the outcome will be slower processing of resource consents. The drive for this reform is always from their developer mates(or cabinet members themselves) who want to cut ...
jcuknz unfortunately the light rail route gets the nod because it is the cheapest capital cost. Why is it cheapest? Because it will run on the existing roads through most of its route. It will not be a skytrain. It will not be fast because it will be stuck...
Ropata, you are insulting Klingons. A Klingon would make it very clear that they were taking your property (and they would probably terminate you with extreme prejudice at the same time). I have strongly suspected that John Key and most of the Cabinet are ...
Meteria Turei was wearing a very nicely tailored pink jacket and the obscured logo on the t-shirt was of the same colour as the jaket. It looked a pretty professional package to me. Rodney Hide never managed to wear his yellow jacket with anything like Ms ...
When it comes down to it Council's District Plans are the result of democracy. If we had a dictator giving out a plan we would have distinct looking cities and towns. Some of them would be unlivable and some would become cities to admire - like Paris. If ...
If you lived in an Athfield house you might want a box, Those Athfield tubes don't always fit the boxes too well.
Could you please show me where in the Auckland Unitary Plan there is any requirement to consider the size of furniture or the placement of trees or shrubs?
If money is invested in activities that generate wealth across the whole community, is it pork barrel economics or is it common sense?
The problem is that when developers get hold of greenfield sites they waste the land by building single residential houses to the maximum size allowed by the District Plan rules. What is needed is an understanding by all New Zealanders that if we keep ...
Would have been a lot higher if the highest crime age hadn't been better cared for by Labour's policies than they are now. The nats have been benefitting from Helen's years in power and will leabe a horrible legacy for future governments with the latest ...
Actually Macro, the left-wing centre hasn't moved, it's just that we have been told time and time again by Key and his sycophants that right-wing policies are "centre-right" so often, without true Kiwis pointing out that the true core of New Zealand is ...
If we don't educate our children who is going to take care of us in our old age? Only by having young, energetic, motivated young people with the ability to cope with a globally warming world will NZ have a chance of being able to keep the oldies in the ...
Nothing wrong with a foreign billionaire becoming a citizen as long as the IRD rapidly converts them into just a millionaire.
Nothing wrong with letting billionaires into the country as long as our tax structure is changed to make sure they are only millionaires in less than 10 years....
Really the problem is too many people. If there were only half a million people in the world we could all chug around in coal-fired cars, we could eat as much beef as we wanted to and if we could actually build planes we could fire them with coal too and ...
I think you will find that if you use a passenger ferry that the carbon dioxide used per person to travel from point A to Point B won't be much different between a diesel powered displacement vessel and a modern jet airliner. There will usually be a time ...
FriendlyTroll, what American cares about crime in South America, Mexico or Africa? What is a Trump shot in the foot is that if there are more Mexicans and South Americans, then more will manage to get into the United States, wall or no wall. Vigorous birth...
BM since you know how to develop this land to house more people and you are such a concerned citizen worried about the homeless I am sure you will provide Niki an adequate house in the neighbourhood at ground level at an equal or lesser rent or otherwise I...
There are many comments above about "liberals". Surely the underlying issue is not liberalism, but neo-liberalism. Neo-liberalism is what has been driving the leaders of the western world for the last twenty-five to thirty years. It is all about making the...
I have a query for monopolist capitalists concentrating more and more money in fewer and fewer hands. "Once one person has all the money, what happens to the market?"
Gosman, courts all over the world declare stolen property forfeit every day. If money is stolen it doesn't belong to the thief. Monopoly capitalism is theft. Ipso facto the money isn't 'their money'.
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