Well fortunately your view of the role of government is about to be consigned to the rubbish bin.
What about medium sized corporations? Are you suggesting that companies should not sue governments or just big ones? Governments around the world do stupid things. If these stupid things damage shareholder value I am all for the suing. You would side with ...
I think you have skipped to the wrong country there dude. Go easy on the drugs. Trevor will want to be remembered as an excellent Speaker and retire with a knighthood. This is probably his final gig. He will want to be bracketed in history with Lockwood ...
Why do you want to protect governments from being sued by companies?
Why? Governments do stupid things all the time that damage the interests of shareholders. Jacinda will do this and I am immensely relieved.
That is never going to happen. I am immensely impressed with the new Government on this issue.
You are showing selfishness. This is not just about benefits to New Zealand.
... long you been around here srylands? Long enough to know this...
""For some strange reason we’re not jailing the fuckers."" Because we are not the Central African Republic perhaps?
An 11B hole is not a reasonable opinion to hold and some sort of censure should be applied. "" I can assure you it is very real. Well it i a $10.7 billion hole at best estimate, but call it 11 if you like. http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2017/...
and come with a jail sentence for an MP even mentioning the idea.""" Even for you, this is jumping the shark.
If Labour wins, it will cancel the tax cuts – but it will not raise taxes."" FFS you are dealing with semantics here.
Why don't you like the Minister? He has done a tireless job to improve health outcomes, especially for the disadvantaged.
Whoa. Why do you think his tap dancing would be welcome at Kiwiblog? It is a place for serious debate, not for whooping and childish behaviour.
What the hell is that about? You are totally out of line making such a comment. You should withdraw and apologise. [lprent: Please spare me your unintelligent indignation. Please read his comment. There are many possible meanings to OAB's statement. It ...
I will give them credit for clear policies, fully costed. Unfortunately many of them are awful. And nobody affected is going to tolerate a tax rate of 40%. An income of $NZ 150,000 is modest these days. Young people will leave. Older people will go fishing...
Why should the Government own a farming company? It is simply ridiculous. It is presumably some bizarre accident of history that the company remains in State ownership. The sooner it goes the better.
"any CGT only applies to the increase in value over and above inflation" Is that labour Policy? Or are you assuming? Because many countries, tax nominal capital gains, including the USA. "Under the federal tax code, the increase in an asset’s price is ...
BTW I thought you had disappeared long ago tracey. Welcome back to The Standard. Good to see you again.
Sure but it was in exchange for large personal tax cuts, including ridding us of the punitive 39% top rate. If labour were to announce a broadly tax neutral package, I would vote for them, e.g 15% CGT - no exemptions 1% land tax - no exemptions 17.5% GST ...
What is a 'RWNJ'? [TheStandard: A moderator moved this comment to Open Mike as being off topic or irrelevant in the post it was made in. Be more careful in future.] [you're on a progressive political blog with a left wing bent, stop trolling (yes, I saw ...
I don't have any bile for anyone. My main comment in this affair has been the (apparent) lack of support by the father. Why did the father not pay child support? Metiria has said that she was solely responsible for the financial support of her child. Where...
Mu God. She was not solely financially responsible. The father was also financially responsible.
Why was the father not paying her child support?
I see lots of women in prison for benefit fraud. None for pony tail tugging. Bill English committed no offence. Where was the fucking father? Either he WAS supporting her and she was not in fact struggling OR he was a dead beat child support avoider. Which...
What the hell is a RWNJ?
What the hell is a "rightie"? You know in the real world people simply don't use these terms? There are intelligent people and stupid people, kind people and good people, proponents of sound public policy and proponents of poor public policy. But there are...
WTF?
IIRC Andrew Little reaffirmed Labour's commitment to five eyes and the GCSB.
Yes but New Zealand has totally avoided austerity.
The New Zealand media are trash. Are you really surprised by this? That "Project" thing on TV3 at 7pm is vile. Sure being PM is a full time job. But it comes with the pay and resources to give you options. Try being a parent in a low wage job.
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