Posts by Sacha
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Andre, I don't think Hickey's all that worried about the poor - more the young achievers who the Nats are supposedly so keen on keeping here. That's worthy of an emperor's clothes moment.
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What bugs me about all the discussions of the details is nobody is asking the question "Why should we want to pay less tax?"
Everyone is fixated on where cuts will come from - and not on how they will be paid for (oh look, Keith has it covered) or as you say why to have them at all.
However, the government could safely argue that they promised tax cuts before the election - and opinion polling since gives them no reason to revisit the question. Given the quality of public debate, so you really think the answer would be all that different?
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But the cheese will be better incentivised for success, Joshua.
Fondue is our bright future. -
they will be diverted from this stray thought by the shiny things that Key has mixed in to this mess
Don't forget the bennie-bashing - went down a treat right away in the Heraldic comments.
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5 and 6 year olds, which seems to have been lost on some of the brave champions of the rightosphere
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If I may be so bold as to summarise his utterances elsewhere in the 'sphere I believe Craig was objecting to Bernard playing the 'leave the country' card. Again.
I quite like the odd bit of passionate economics providing it is not pimply Randian bollocks.
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Actually, thinking of Temple Grandin, it's probably more like aspies worry about the bacon and make sure it's all ethical and stuff.
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Aspies save the bacon
sorry, I seem to be in a teeshirt mood
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Aloha Ms Brethouwer. Was listening to Transglobal Undergound today and thinking of your man's fabulous tour story. Greetings to him too.
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So the money for the rich can be raised from the poor, as well as from everyone in between.
Agree it's regressive redistribution, and am reminded of Keith's pie graphs. However, I reckon they're making all those in the middle pay the most. That way, the govt get to say they're not being mean to the poor and yet the wealthiest still make off like bandits in the name of incentivising success.
I hope our hard-working mainstreamers begin to see they've been sold an expensive pup and they don't even get to pat it.