This doesn’t have anything to do with being paid for skill and expertise though. No-one is that good that they deserve that kind of salary Of course it does, and of course there are. Just because you don't actually understand the skills that these people ...
Do you want someone with decent expertise to actually do the job properly? You actually do have to pay for decent skills. What do you think he should be paid?
errr.... because he took a pay CUT to take the job.
And you think that 0.25 cents / hour ($5.20 / annum) puts people into poverty?
So what is your motivation? More teachers as an absolute? I mean, with around 45,000 teachers in New Zealand (excluding early childhood education), if you "only" want 6 extra teachers, and they "only" cost $37,000 / annum, then you could simply pay ...
How can you compare the tax at the new rate on the new salary, with the tax on the new rate on the old salary? Surely a fairer comparison would be tax on new salary and new rate, and tax on old salary at old rate? Secondly, the salary costs for new ...
Which just reinforces the fact that "peak oil" is just dressed-up environmentalism. It doesn't rebut the point that 'peak oil' is not energy Armageddon. Efficiencies are actually higher than that (60% and increasing), and there is obviously a lot of ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_GTL Gas To liquids: Important point from this is that gas to liquids is economically viable at an oil price > $40 / bbl. http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/nat_gas.html Natural Gas Reserves: Reserves are > 6,609 tcf, and ...
How do you propose that 1.) we generate sufficient electricity for electric cars, and 2.) increase the electrical infrastructure to handle the increased loads?
I give to charity, and it doesn't appear in my tax records: 1.) I've signed something that lets the receiving organization get my tax rebate, rather than myself, and 2.) I've donated via direct bank transfer for which I don't get a certificate. Just ...
So what is he supposed to do? Go to the media and get a nice photo shoot every time he gives to charity? Take this comment: Denigrated for making it a PR point: big difference. Plus what does he actually give anyway? He claimed in the public domain that he...
Haven’t y’all heard ? He doesn’t draw a salary as it all goes to charity. The guy’s a fucking saint. He does everything for the love !!! Only on the standard would we see John Key being denigrated for giving to charity. Stay classy.
There’s no place for political bickering in this and the MPs get that. Pity commentators here don't.
For goodness sake. I'm sure if they had advocated for free contraception for all, you'd be shrilly complaining that "the rich" were getting some sort of hand-out and that it should be targetted at those genuinely in-need. Same if "the rich" were being ...
As I read it, Phill say's they're "benefits", not tax cuts... “They’re not poor enough to get much in the way of help from the benefit system and they’re not wealthy enough to find things pretty easy as higher income earners do.”…
Gm to reduce methane emissions, perhaps?
Do you guys actually honestly believe that this is a big conspiracy to screw over workers via changing employment law? I mean, really. Why haven't they been manipulating the CTU like that for years?
The next oil shock is just a few years away. By that time the government expects there to be a only few hundred electric cars in the country And exactly what will we use to charge these electric cars? Sorry - but electric cars are not the solution to any ...
Yes, I voted Act, and that Labour threat was reduced.
So you have a problem with Sia Aston using "long discredited figures". Do you have a problem with Al Gore doing the same?
[lprent: This place is starting to look like the sewer at KB. Lift your standards or I'll start giving people holidays from here. It is pretty evident who isn't doing any constructive work for the election.] Lyn, I make every attempt to keep my comments ...
So instead of a positive message on how to increase wages, your example is one based on the politics of envy. Oh my God: People have the audacity to earn > $100k (and how many of them are public servants?) Or own rental property. [lprent: This place is ...
So by what percentage have New Zealand Forestry stocks decreased under the Labour government?
just to check Spam.. you think it's OK for National to make misleading arguments if someone else does it too? You obviously think that it is, or you wouldn't post them yourselves. And then you post about how others are misleading with theirs'. Hypocrisy?
And you guys would NEVER post a misleading graph....
claims about productivity, lower tax avoidance, more investment ..how? Well, people have already commented on high marginal tax rates (in particular due to welfare abatement). But on the tax avoidance, this graph shows a good illustration: The peaks at 39...
Of course, your analysis completely ignores the fact that a flat tax of 23% would almost immediately stop a lot of tax avoidance, and generate more investment and hence may even push-up total tax revenue. It also ignores the benefits of much lower marginal...
"Giving" us climate change? Which party was it that just legislated net greenhouse-gas causing biofuels be put in petrol? Now: Would you want to be governed by a party with a caucus where no-one has their own opinion and there is no discussion and debate, ...
Since when is trying to attract talented and successful people to join a party and make a contribution to political life a bad thing to do? Only in your head, Santi, could that constitute a lack of scruples. "Inviting him to join a party"? The allegation ...
I'm just asking that we take the time to actually understand the bill (it's complicated) before pronouncing the death of free speech! Fair enough. And you might want to recommend that John A and others here follow that advice, before launching into ad ...
No, robinsod, I wasn't. You see, I don't live anywhere near auckland. Doesn't mean I don't support them though.
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