But the primary effect; a slow change in investment behavior will happen from pretty much the time that the tax bill is introduced. If different investment types are all treated the same with CGT why would behaviour change? Unless you mean structuring to ...
Once again institutional memory will be lost, and staff with an intimate knowledge of their local conservation estate and its management issues will disappear, or be replaced by generalists in hubs who dont know the area. Enough detail (albeit one side of...
It depends if they are effective frontline services or not. And it's possible the resources could be better used elsewhere. Or it could simply be a cost cutting measure. There must be more details known in order to demand "the Government must reverse this ...
And what do you achieve with that? Parenting and early childhood issues (and not specifically ECE as that doesn't address the worst at risk kids who don't get ECE) are something that needs far more attention and effort for the long term good of the country...
I know, I'm supporting what you'e saying in this post. Part of the problem is highlighted by CV, relying on the government to be "a massive enabler and leader" - real societal change works from the bottom up, not "enabled" from the top. Leadership is ...
"We won’t solve these problems until we stop blaming the schools, and take a long hard look at ourselves." Yes, definitely. And as well as not blaming schols an important step is to stop blaming everyone and everything else. It's our problem, out family's ...
It's not just polling, it's what many people are saying. If you care to notice what is going on beyond the party cheer squad. Blaming the polls is as much a copout from reality as blaming the "troll".
The old troll dig in absence of any argument. If you look outside bubbles like this, especially across the centre and left, I think that sums up how a lot of people see the current situation, various degrees of mixed feelings about National but no other ...
Except that I don't think or say that. It's easy to find things that justify criticism. But it's all relative. I will say that Key and National are doing better than I can see any of the current alternatives doing in the foreseeable future.
Who's playing the numbers game? Who's post? You can keep arguing about numbers like this as much as you like, but it's a sideshow trying to prove the otther side wrong and incompetent. It's as pathetic as felix. It doesn't change the facts - a relatively ...
LS - are you talking about something else about English's figures? Or are you referring to both paying 70% of nett tax?
What have you discussed about the topic felix? As usual nothing but niggle.
Ok, sorry, wrong table of numbers, there's a few being argued over that the moment. The English table points to the problem Rob and Eddie have with maths. What?! How the hell can two separate groups of families each pay 70% of the net tax? That's quite ...
He said he sent the email to the wrong list. An easy thing to do. http://blog.labour.org.nz/index.php/2011/07/18/mea-culpa-2/ It's embarassing rather than damaging, it was obvious there was an organised campaign of talking points, and it's widely known ...
You mean not jumping to partisan conclusions. http://publicaddress.net/onpoint/easy-as-1-2-228-billion/ More analysis, argumenmts and followup by Keith here: http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2011/07/joyce_v_cunliffes_numbers.html
Check http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2011/07/joyce_v_cunliffes_numbers.html - and look for the comments from Keith Ng. See Keith's blog on it to: http://publicaddress.net/onpoint/easy-as-1-2-228-billion/
You can choose Eddie's post as gospel if you like, I'm not. Depends on what religion you belong to. The fact is that those numbers and calculations are being disputed all over the internet, and I suspect Eddie's post is potentially as dodgy as everyone ...
The point being, over a few conclusion jumping heads here, is that no one will quantify how many tax avoiders or dole bludgers or or GST avoiders or "sickness" loafers there are, so they exaggerate the hell out it. Claiming fuckloads of anything is ...
Do you think there are as many as all the benefit bludgers out there? They should be as easy for you to count.
How many of them are there CV?
That's not detail. The site mostly talks about asset sales which have nothing to do with CGT, plus some canned comments (my comment didn't pass the censor). The only detail on there is via downloads, and that doesn't include the table I'm talking about.
KJT - link please, I still can't see it. I'm talking about the details including the table of numbers that finally appeared on The Standard on the 17th at 10pm-ish, over three days after the launch and nearly two and a half days after Kiwiblog.
Polls are only indicators, albeit important ones as they can frame media coverage and discussion, and they can also influence people who might participate in the next poll. It might be a bugger if it works against your interests but it's how things work. I...
Yes, I've looked for the detail - I had to look because it wasn't readily available, after a couple of large DOC downloads I found some - and read a lot of it. But that was general info, not the real detail, that wasn't made available to the public as far ...
Damn, there should be BOAT LOADS of aggrieved socialists heading for Cuba? (There should be good backload deals from Florida)
"Do we need the kind of people that would?" You could suggest that to Labour as a new party slogan. And add "please leave before the election".
there’s lots more detailed policy to be released yet More taxing? More spending? Or all fiscally neutral? Labour can't propose more spending without impacting on their CGT claims.
I also find it very interesting that they haven’t included the restart of Cullen Fund contributions, which Labour has talked about doing. How many billions extra would that add to the government books by 2025? Labour haven't included that in their figures...
You really think political parties wouldn't time major strategies with polls and news cycles in mind? I'd be astounded if Labour planning is that haphazard they wouldn't consider it. Poll companies will have to schedule all their polling, and political ...
Colmar/TVNZ would have it scheduled well in advance, they poll regularly, not at the whim of party policy releases. Labour chose the timing of their release, probably with Colmar in mind. It backfired.
Meh, the debtors can wait At least you're honest about it. See the response Keith Ng got (in my previous comment) when he asked Goff and Cunliffe. Espiner asked Cunliffe something similar on Q+A and Cunliffe evaded. Polls suggest that Labour aren't trusted...
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