Tane: "The union provides a floor of minimum conditions, not a ceiling." Isn't no-pass-on exactly that? In this thread, you've specifically promoted legislation that would enforce a ceiling, since any non-union worker that managed to negotiate a deal at, ...
A servo is what? Service & Food Workers Union member? [lprent: yes]
Supply and demand works pretty well... if there are people who will do a job for a certain rate then those who want more for the same job miss out. I'm all for fair and safe workplace requirements etc to make sure employment costs aren't trimmed in non-...
Oh, and that was high school. Would've been tough to get through uni without something a little higher paying since I didn't want to work during semesters and needed to save up all my $$ on holidays... and that's where I met Lynn. [lprent: :) There were a ...
Chris G - Should say I also worked at a supermarket on minimum when studying. I agree there were a few adults around, but at my supermarket it was mostly mums who had been out of the workforce for ages and just wanted something easy to supplement family ...
Tane - We do need people doing those minimum wage jobs (which typically don't include bus drivers or elder-care nurses out of those examples you gave). However, those jobs are unskilled and therefore only suit those without skills... students, teenagers, ...
Chris G - Great that you're working, but perhaps you should try out for something higher paying instead of waiting for Woolie's to follow any minimum wage legislation that may come along? The minimum wage jobs there are fairly simple and hence the low pay...
4 seems logical, and the left is further down that path than the right where Act is seen as extreme and has never really cracked double figures. It's interesting to watch the MMP landscape evolve away from the FPP legacy over time.
IB - Good points re: labour market capacity and the tendency of the rich to save. Still, there is always room to boost the economy by getting out of the way. The top of the cycle would've been a good time to look at the benefits of cutting red tape and ...
Didn't it work in the 80's/90's? We can't tell without a crystal ball, but it seems likely to me that we would've had a lot less of an economy in the last few decades without the reforms of the 1984-1993 (or so) period. It seems highly likely to me that ...
Keeping their own money is not a gift. Taking it as tax is more like a gift from them (albeit compulsory). If you believe, as I do, in the basic goodness of human nature then you'd probably not be so worried. No doubt they'll spend much of that extra cash ...
The quote given doesn't say where the funding comes from. You've all assumed state. You're probably right, but it is an assumption. It seems likely to me that it's a slice of the share that would normally go to any "government" and the article makes it ...
Use of the word corporatism re: New Deal is interesting. Luckily, there's a wikipedia article on exactly that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Deal_and_corporatism
I think that zero-threshold is ACT policy too!
Your glee over that nasty article strikes me as the start of *your* "NZ Sux" campaign. That is, I'm fairly confident that you don't consider the NZ public to have the reasoning ability of a doped slug but are cynically willing to promote an article that ...
Act doesn't support the MMP referendum, you'll find. Funnily enough given they would've exist without it and were formed into a political party only because and when MMP was introduced.
Thanks for the link... ACT 85% National 76% UF 56% NZF 53% Labour 50% Progressive 39% Green 31% Maori 29% Before anyone judges too harshly, I should clarify I'm as socially liberal as possible but a big believer in small government in the economic sphere ...
Of course, for those of us who think that tax cuts stimulate the economy and lead to an increased actual tax take (in $ not %) then there's no way to convince us of the trade-off line. Bugger.
I guess Drudge is still considered to have right-leaning readership, so take with a grain of salt the poll on the upper right: http://www.drudgereport.com/
Not a misdirection, but off topic... what's the difference between a conservation and environment policy? Might be a difference to politicians but wouldn't it make sense if they were compiled and released as one (whether leaked or not)?
In general, good points here. Health is very important morally and it does flow to productivity. Should point out, though, that some of the poorer members of our society are poorer because they make bad choices. Many also make bad health choices even ...
I don't think National is being upfront with their plans, but that doesn't mean I don't trust them. In fact, it means I *do* trust them to say what they need to in order to get elected and then take a more right-leaning line over time (having shown results...
Draco - but the anonymous donation part isn't the issue here. It's whether the anonymous donation actually made it to the party.
SteveP - I think everyone can understand that distinction. You're saying that there's no "moral" distinction between different routes of anonymous donation, but that trusts should be opened up because they can be, whereas lawyers trusts funds can't be so ...
The only time I ever exchanged emails with Nandor was over the GE debate. Generally, I'm a small government kinda guy, but I saw GE-Free as a competitive advantage for NZ products, since it seemed ridiculous for NZ to try to compete in the GE science and ...
I couldn't be more supportive of this. It's a great example of where the state health system can spend wisely... $450 per head now, vastly reduced cancer cases to pay for later. I'm glad we don't have as many (any?) hang ups about this as in the US. Their ...
Not really related, but I can't help but giggle when the American coal industry (as "Americans for Balanced Energy Choices") promotes itself (heavily) on television as "America's Power" in ads set to Kool and the Gang's "Celebration". Everything is so ...
Good post, Steve. I concur, although Gob has a good point in comment #2 as well.
Thanks for checking, Tane. I won't retype the whole thing. The gist of it was making fun of the Herald's mode of argument as very much a "the woman is dead, so we know she wasn't a witch" type of logic i.e. arguably an accurate way of figuring it out, but ...
I think I have a post in moderation... well, I hope I do or it might have disappeared. Funnily enough, it was probably the most left-leaning thing I've ever posted :-)
Link will probably assist discussion.
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