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Island Life: Waiting For Roddo

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  • MikeE,

    Well nowhere in the brochure does it refer to a $500 per week tax cut.

    It refers to being on average $500 a week better off, which is a combination of tax cuts, reduction of red tape and regulatory burdens, holding government spending to the same amount plus inflation and economic growth created by said measures.

    Washington DC • Since Nov 2006 • 138 posts Report

  • giovanni tiso,

    It refers to being on average $500 a week better off, which is a combination of tax cuts, reduction of red tape and regulatory burdens, holding government spending to the same amount plus inflation and economic growth created by said measures.

    In other words, it's a figure plucked out of Roddo's lovely derriere.

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report

  • Tom Semmens,

    MikeE, are you being intentionally funny?

    Sevilla, Espana • Since Nov 2006 • 2217 posts Report

  • Paul Campbell,

    Well I wouldn't say 'lovely' ..... but surely of all the parties they understand laissez-faire capitalism? if they cut red tape doesn't that mean that there will be an oversupply (of red tape) on the market - thereby pushing the prices down - we'll all get stuck with our share of this surplus red tape thereby devaluing it's share of our promised $500 to nothing

    OTOH just before the following election Labour will snap it up at rock bottom prices for election hoardings and swoop back into power ....

    Rodney I tell you it's all going to go horribly wrong ....

    Dunedin • Since Nov 2006 • 2623 posts Report

  • andrew llewellyn,

    Wa there a tango demo after you left?

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report

  • Rich Lock,

    Wild Bills Steakhouse. A classy venue where they will happily serve the laydeez both types of wine (red and white). I imagine they'd mix them in the same bucket, oops I mean glass, if you asked nicely, too.

    back in the mother countr… • Since Feb 2007 • 2728 posts Report

  • Paul Campbell,

    a tango - well it was a political meeting - certainly fancy footwork at question time

    Dunedin • Since Nov 2006 • 2623 posts Report

  • Ian MacKay,

    I stayed on Prime after the great Warriors win to watch Rodney at work. Impressions count. When Hide was asked if he had anything to hide over the question of his own Party Funding, I thought for a moment that he showed some anxiety at the thought the spotlight might be turned on him. Perhaps not. And yet….

    Bleheim • Since Nov 2006 • 498 posts Report

  • Matthew Poole,

    Act's numbers are fishy. According to Statistics NZ (whose numbers I'm inclined to trust), average household income for the '06/'07 year was a shade under $68k. That works out to $1,308 per week, which I assume is a gross figure rather than a net one. Tax on $68k works out to a bit under $18k, so for convenience we'll say that net average household income is $50k, or $962/week.
    Somehow we're expected to believe that households will be better off to the tune of over half their net income, taking them to a position better than their gross income? I smell a Tui billboard coming!

    Auckland • Since Mar 2007 • 4097 posts Report

  • Mike Graham,

    MikeE - you also seem to conveniently forget about all the extra "user-pay" charges that households would be burdened with.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 206 posts Report

  • Matthew Poole,

    MikeE - you also seem to conveniently forget about all the extra "user-pay" charges that households would be burdened with.

    And that's where their numbers just don't make sense. If Act cut income tax to zero, the average household would be most of the way to that $500/week. But, they'd have to fork out inordinate sums of money to afford things that are currently subsidised, if not outright funded, by central gummint: Healthcare, education, roading, domestic security (the cops don't come cheap)... So they're better-off to the tune of their current income tax bill, but much worse off overall because they're now saddled with the user-pays ideology of Roger's disciples.

    Auckland • Since Mar 2007 • 4097 posts Report

  • Kyle Matthews,

    I stayed on Prime after the great Warriors win to watch Rodney at work. Impressions count.

    I caught a little of it. I would never vote Act, but it was nice to hear him say two good things about Helen Clark in the five minutes I watched - one that she'd advanced the NZ-USA relationship well, and two, that he was wrong and she was right about going into Iraq.

    It would be nice to hear politicians admit that they were wrong occasionally. They tend to be at least 50% of the time.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Kumara Republic,

    $500 a week is probably enough to hire a part-time bodyguard. Or to buy a good supply of barbed wire. Or 1,000 rounds of rifle ammo.

    The southernmost capital … • Since Nov 2006 • 5446 posts Report

  • Rich of Observationz,

    Reminds me of a quote that might have been from The Office, but probably wasn't:

    there's no I in "team"

    No, but there's 4 yous in "you fuck*ng stupid cu*t"

    Back in Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 5550 posts Report

  • Sofie Bribiesca,

    :-)

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report

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