What a delightful piece of writing. Standing on the graves of the victims to make a sick political point. When the victims have been buried, and the families allowed to mourn, I'll publish some examples of disasters caused by government enterprises in ...
No, it's not. Under our current tax system, cuts benefit everyone, including the higher income earners. What I am advocating for is targeted cuts to low income earners, but a reduction in the bottom (and possibly mid) rate only, and a tax free threshold.
Which part don't you understand? I'd be very happy to type slowly so you can catch up.
Advocating for tax cuts for low income earners is a 'windup'?
You're deluded. Rents are set by the market. As are prices for most things, food particularly. If you had an ounce of knowledge of how our economy works, you wouldn't write such bs. Tax cuts are almost never aimed at the rich, but with any progressive tax ...
No, it's a notional adjustment only. The only time the currency matters is when debt is actually paid off. And you're understanding of the subject is sub-par. I've just checked the exchange rate at http://www.nzforex.co.nz/forex-tools/historical-rate-tools...
Good thinking.
I'd be interested to hear of an economic system without taxes. Even the soviet union had taxes.
"Bit arrogant isn’t it?" No. Just stating the facts. "Tech does quite well here too, I don’t see them demanding this or that and trying to take preferential treatment on Everything." Nor do farmers.
Which it is, and hopefully will remain so.
You're greatly exaggerating. Farmers earn NZ a significant portion of our standard of living, and have adapted to life without subsidies. Those on welfare on the other hand...
"As for the farmers, we are subsidising both their greenhouse emissions and their pollution of the waterways." No, the truth is that Farmers are subsidising our standard of living by the foreign currency they earn.
"Your argument for how this happened is that 25,000 odd additional NZers suddenly found themselves immobile, unprepared to retrain, and unprepared to start from the bottom? " No. I said 'are', as in the present day. In NZ, the recession lasted from Q1, ...
The problem with what you're saying is how you define 'troll'. On balance I think TS gets it about right, but there can be a fine line between outing a genuine 'troll' and shutting down debate because you don't like what someone writes.
Islam is not a race. Quoting the Guardian can be fraught with problems.
Regrettably, you my have a point. Nevertheless, these perks are sickening.
That list has been debunked. I'll summarise. 1. You provide no references for any of the alleged 'lies', so how do we know Key even made those statements? 2. You provide no evidence that Key made any of those statements knowing them to be untrue. 3. You ...
That is an unfortunate side-effect of our income tax system...we lower rates for lower tax brackets and everyone benefits, including the rich. But here's the thing...the poor will benefit disproportionately more if only the lower brackets are lowered. ...
"Already covered. " The day you claim to have 'covered' anything with your irrational diatribes is a day to laugh out loud.
"Its entirely a question of are there enough jobs." Sure, that's true. But there are plenty of jobs if you are mobile, prepared to retrain and prepared to start from the bottom.
"...mentioning the random chances that affect economic outcomes..." ...is a chardonnay socialists veiled attempt at excusing a lack of initiative. Hiding behind your beamer?
You aren't serious, are you?
"Its fully possible for the unemployment rate to be lowered just by the government having a commitment to employ people who cant otherwise find work." It's fully possible for the unemployment rate to be lowered by people actually taking the jobs that are ...
"For example, whether you are born with a silver or plastic spoon in your mouth, or no spoon at all (beware!). " So basically you are a determinist. Born poor, always poor. John Key does't exist. Nor does Michael Campbell. Nor Jamie Beaton. How long a list...
"New Zealand’s dairy industry is its biggest export earner, and generated NZ$17 billion in the year to December 2014..." https://www.nzte.govt.nz/en/buy/our-sectors/agribusiness/ That's dairy ALONE. Agritech is another $700m... What are you smoking?
Hatred? Of what? I'm not I waste energy on that emotion on very much, but certainly not on unions. They enjoy support from some quarters, and good for them. But compelling people to join a union is just plain anti-democratic.
So? I you have any work you are not, by definition, 'unemployed'.
"... blaming the victims." What victims? In NZ we are rewarded for our own endeavour. We also provide those less well of with substantial subsidies towards their living. That's fair enough, but are you suggesting poor economic outcomes just randomly happen...
Rubbish. "The New Zealand agricultural sector is unique in being the only developed country to be totally exposed to the international markets since subsidies, tax concessions and price supports were removed in the 1980s." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Like Venezuela?
"All are directly linked to poor quality housing; prevention is better than cure." You may be right. So why aren't parents deploying the prevention? Too many cigarettes? Too much alcohol? Who knows, but the help is certainly there if they ask and have the ...
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