Gee fair bit of negativity here! You get the sense those on the left would love a good bit of failure for little old NZ! Fact is that tax reciepts are notoriously volatile, there are swings and roundabouts but the trend is clear. Tax up 4.6% year on year. ...
Hi, labours fiscal plan outlines 1 billion + in annual capital gains tax revenue in 5 years time. It says this is from berl modelling. What does this imply for house price growth under labour? I've emailed David parker but no reponse has come. Anyone know ...
Hi, The proposed capital gains tax is projected to be earning $1.035B by fy20/21. What assumptions for asset price inflation is used to reach these numbers? That implies circa 6.9b in realised taxable cap gains in that year. Particularly interested in what...
Hi, The proposed capital gains tax is projected to be earning $1.035B by fy20/21. What assumptions for asset price inflation is used to reach these numbers? That implies circa 6.9b in realised taxable cap gains in that year. Particularly interested in what...
This is a poor analysis sorry. In practice peoples lives are quite different to what you have laid out. In practice peoples wages will rise faster than what the median wage will rise by and then at the end of their working life it will drop significantly (...
You conflate two statistics that are not the same. One is a per capita measure (ave wage) And one includes pop growth (real GDP). So the 14 vs 4 is not a good comp. Cheers
From this nat voter's perspective this is a policy idea (vsr) with some merit. Well done to Mr parker for a thoughtful contribution. It is a Pity the govt feels the need to go straight on the attack. Monetary policy is so important we should be able to ...
Hi all This is a great analysis. Lets extend it to se how much "John Key's Mates" made from that other notorious flogging of family silver - Mighty River Power. NACT sold about 670,000,000 shares. The issue price was $2.50, the price now is $2.21 so thats ...
Morning all. The one "left wing" possible policy that really excites me as a game hanger for the country is a UBI. On this site most people promote it as an equity policy, which it is. But it has a number of elements that would be very appealing to ...
So we are below 2007 levels achieved under the previous govt, with a clear downtrend in place and this stat is used to attack National?
Collins revelation of dinner that she didn't reveal is cause for resignation in my view - I'm a nat voter. JK will be angry and embarassed.
Hiya, no if you sell you don't pay the 50c, the new owner does. Cheers
All good, its right near the end last major topic they discuss? I know what he was trying to get at basically the MRP float has not being very good for investors, but Meridian and Air NZ have been satisfactory performers. But to just make up a stat is lazy...
Sorry TD you are wrong on this one. Meridian float made up of two payments $1 for an instalment reciepts, 50c later to complete to complete the deal. So the correct comparison is between $1.07 and $1. So it is up 7% or about 21% on an annualised basis (...
Sorry CV with all due respect on this you are willfully ignorant. Meridian is at $1.07, it listed at $1. https://www.nzx.com/markets/NZSX/securities/MELCA Mighty River Power is down on the list price but there are worse performers on the NZX in the last 12...
Shocking lie in The Nation cunliffe interview. DC claimed Mighty River Power and Meridian "are the worst performing shares on the sharemarket". Which is just a straight out lie. Not a man we want as PM.
Labour protesting debt would be interesting given they have resisted most spending reductions and have proposed many expensive proposals of their own. The growth in debt has been a neccesary evil of surviving the gfc. Cullen did well to get it to where it ...
You are being mischevious. I never said I don't like the word boss or want to ban it. I said if you want to each a wider audience for your policy it helps not to use class warfare language. All the best
Hi again, it should have read "boss" and it appears twice even! Its used as a bit of an epithet sometime. Speaks to an us and them viewpoint. She is free to use it but its an old school language and imagery that doesn't tie in with most peoples experience ...
Hi there, the article describes a world of fear "looking over our shoulders" companies viewing workers as "cheap expendable labour". These are the mentions the world of business gets. It is divorced from reality for MOST people. It points to a negative and...
Hi again, sorry it was just that I was busy. In fact an example just popped up. http://thestandard.org.nz/guest-post-labour-candidate-deborah-russell/ "Bosses" "expendable labour" taking one minor anecdote and turning it into something much bigger. Cheers
Hello Mr bloke, I don't believe they are ubiquitous but they are there (just as on the right there is generic smears eg dole bludger etc). Will post some examples later. Cheers
Hi everyone. Possible labour policies/actions that might get this righty thinking about voting for you: Make work pay - where at all possible reduce effective marginal taxes on labour. I.e increase other taxes if need be, think of more clever ways to help ...
That would be fine but the payment is not tied to work (genrally apart from 150k+) its just a payment that ends at an arbitrary point in time. I hear what you are staying about a stress free environment. That should be a goal. Having your payment end might...
Hi there, I agree it was slightly sloppy use of the word systemic. I meant it in the sense of being ongoing, structural level of income or cash in hand. Family budgets need to be sustainable, a piece of support that ends just as the child cost increases ...
GW, you have mis read me slighlty. Not saying positive things can't be done. Shouldn't they be sustainable things though. Not ending after a short while
Cheers! Interested in your thoughts on my points Mr Viper.
There is a whole big country out there that is not Auckland, cheap houses for all.
Hi all I'm a national voter (ducks for cover.. :-) My perspective on this is just that it is bad public polcy and bad for family budgets. Puting a reasonably significant payment in place for 1-3 years means it becomes part of the budget. The $60 comes in ...
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