only because we lack the political will to change. Why should hard work be taxed when you can let people keep all of their income from hard work and instead tax wealth and unearned income. And as someone mentioned above, a financial transactions tax on ...
Yep. Sounds radical and 'not in a million years' but something like that or actually much more drastic literally has to happen in the next few decades or maybe the next century. I would to start with: Make it illegal for anyone / anything / any other ...
Sorry for the book.... yikes!
I'm happy to be proven wrong but I feel this article is misleading at best if not inaccurate? The article claims funding is being cut and in the article the Labor spokesperson says in a statement that: "..... funding is effectively being cut..." I hate ...
How about lowering and eventually removing tax on work and place taxes on wealth and unearned income instead?
It seems the WPath guidelines have been adopted and are in use here in NZ for gender affirming care. Here's the link for the NZ guidelines. https://patha.nz/Guidelines
Yep good ideas, something has to be done. I would also start by changing the income tax act so there is no more.. 'income not treated as income for income tax purposes.' Income is income and if anything there should be less tax on work. In my opinion ALL ...
Many people might think it kind of strange how Swarbrick has been so outspoken and active, going on marches, etc on this particular conflict but they haven't heard a peep from her condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine in which many many thousands more ...
How do you get from "I think the way she has supported Palestinian liberation by implying that Jewish people are bad/wrong is a mistake" to saying that by stating the above, the author has bought into a notion that supporting Palestine is antisemitic? ...
"But although they are not terrible people, they do believe terrible things. Kiwis seem to struggle to make this distinction." Kiwis don't struggle to make this distinction at all in my opinion. Just because certain things are "terrible" according to you ...
" Interest does not contribute in any way to actual gaining of revenue." Landlords would argue that interest payments contribute negatively to revenue. The loan (mortgage) was taken out for the purpose of deriving business income (rent) from the asset. The...
China, a balanced view? You do know that China is an authoritarian dictatorship with a ruler in Xi Jinping who has essentially made himself absolute ruler for life? Not sure how you could provide balance against that. Maybe the anti AUKUS, anti Israel, ...
Perhaps you could explain it in a different way then Robert? It sounds to me and maybe others although I can't speak for them, as though you're somehow saying she asked for it? Or that she is somehow responsible for the assault upon her, in other words ...
"The person who "suffers from ADHD and autism" is a "disgrace"? Hmmmmm…." Robert you are being disingenuous and I don't believe you don't know it. (But I could be wrong of course) Suffering from ADHD and autism doesn't give a person an excuse for punching ...
Bingo "The Hurricanes will apologise to the government over a haka performed by its women's side...." https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/510919/hurricanes-to-apologise-over-redneck-haka
I disagree. Surely they can comment on politics and take political sides all they want in a personal capacity, but here they are representing the Hurricanes and therefore shouldn't be doing politics. Maybe they should focus on their jobs instead because ...
"...she gave people a sense that she cared..." If she really cared about inequality she would have introduced some form of wealth tax and would have seriously looked at how to transition tax revenues away from work and towards wealth. But her position (as ...
Many many people work hard and do the right thing yet struggle to pay their rent let alone save anything or have any hope of ever being able to afford a house of their own. Meanwhile, people like these 2 have multiple properties, multiple businesses (...
It's perfectly rational. It gets their supporters literally salivating (get tough on crime !!) as well as providing distraction.
What you think that they are any different from each other....really? In regards to your second paragraph, things have moved on and changed since back in those days for goodness sake. When my Dad was awarded a fellowship I won't say in what industry there ...
"Some of those big bikie mobs that rumble around the streets actually look pretty threatening too, but because they are older mostly white men without mokos they probably won't be touched." ?? Which mobs are these. (some in the South Island maybe?) Because...
Straight out of the standard political playbook. If you can convince the population there's a crisis (better still if you can create a climate of fear) then you can much more easily make excuses for breaking promises and / or not delivering in certain ...
"...Banning freedom of expression (gang patches) is like trying to deal with climate change by breaking all of the thermometers..." As much as I don't like gangs, it's pretty hard to argue with anything Jonathon Ayling is saying here: https://www.youtube....
Yep, but unfortunately so would.. Disconnected phone number because bill wasn't paid.
"...a choice between protecting the economy or protecting our ability to function as a nation state..." I don't see how there could be a choice between those two things? Aren't they both reliant on the other?
If the same was done in removing all subsidies (hidden such as income being not income for income tax purposes and obvious ones such as tax on mortgage interest) to landlords and land owners then maybe house prices would come down?
The 2% of GDP commitment was / is a guideline not a signed up to requirement. Regardless, 11 out of 31 countries are at 2% or above now, which is somewhat more than "...virtually none...". That number of countries is expected to rise significantly this ...
Sorry not sure why I said van must have been stuck in my head from the police vans you mentioned. In regards to 1) and 2) I meant the Israel / Palestine issue as a whole, not the particular event involved here. Police have been told to be extra vigilant in...
Rehabilitation has to be the priority. Remember, the vast majority of those currently in prison have to be released at some stage.
"...police officers appeared close by watching me intently as if they suspected I was about to commit a violent act. " What did you expect them to do ignore you completely? If a van slows down close to a group of protesters especially when the issue at ...
Of course it's reasonable it's part of the coalition agreement that National would allow the bill to progress to select committee stage. It's perfectly legitimate for a political party which is in government to put forward proposed bills in line with their...
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