Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Media Take: The Panama Papers, in reply to Alfie,
set up a sham trust for a declared bankrupt then knowingly concealed that information from investigators
Surely that's a crime of some sort in itself?
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NZ children have shocking dental health in some population groups. Can't access the Ministry site for some strange reason, but this 7-page PDF draws on some of their research late last decade.
And at least (most) children supposedly get funded dental care. Dental health in adults is not measured as far as I'm aware.
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Speaker: Talking past each other:…, in reply to Russell Brown,
are there ways to directly influence manufacturers?
Regulation.
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Hard News: Media Take: The Panama Papers, in reply to izogi,
These types of things are significant when people are looking for excuses to vote out a government, but I don't get the feeling that people are looking for an excuse to do that right now.
Astute. The people who need this govt removed the most have stopped voting.
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Speaker: Talking past each other:…, in reply to Rob Stowell,
There are health issues with high levels of sugar consumption beyond obesity.
Far more interested in diabetes and tooth decay, personally. Nobody *needs* coke.
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Speaker: Talking past each other:…, in reply to Sam Bradford,
Yes. Accepting tax as one extreme of a spectrum shows how badly our political discourse has been eroded since 1984. Look at the reaction here when someone dares to suggest firm regulation of a social harm.
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Speaker: Talking past each other:…, in reply to Russell Brown,
fulfilling the scenario outlined in the original post
performance art, innit
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Speaker: Talking past each other:…, in reply to Danielle,
James said "end poverty", but apparently that's so hard for us that all we can think of doing is being punitive to poor people.
Some of us have agreed with him explicitly. Own your stuff please.
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Speaker: Talking past each other:…, in reply to James Butler,
They are not mutually exclusive. Agree about tackling poverty. This is just one strange case where the health benefits accrue unequally in the different direction than usual.
The one that worries me is upcoming road pricing/congestion charging - if it does not come with some with subsidies for the poor, it will price them off the roads first.
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My thanks Alfie for linking to relevant articles. Much appreciated.
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