Posts by Sacha
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Plunket would truly put Key's feet to the pillow, yes.
applause
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characters doing incredibly stupid things out of the blue for no particular reason
remarkably like the random beauty of real life (except when it intrudes into politics)
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unseasonal vegetables, to confound his climate denial
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Nice piece o satire, Mr Welch
Exhausted by the fight for every breath, the dying woman somehow musters the strength to give a grateful smile.
‘Thank God,’ she murmurs. ‘Thank God for that. And the
business community, the corporate investors? Please tell
me they will suffer no more.” -
Bryers' full statement
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Send some to Rodney Hide, will you
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Earth to National party! Earth to National Party! People love their family and friends! People aren't selfish pricks!
I believe it's the people who voted for them and continue to lend their support in polls who you need to be talking with - especially to understand what the appeal is.
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Bryers apologises, claims will pay (some) investors back
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And speaking of spin, there's this nugget in Gordon Campbell's analysis:
Treasury has assumed, when calculating the net impact of the GST rise vs tax cut trade-off, that rich and poor alike spend all of their weekly income.
That may be true of the poor as they try to procure the basics of survival – yet it is certainly not true of those on high incomes, who have far more discretion on how, and whether, they spend.. The rich will not incur GST say, when they invest – in ways that do not attract GST – and thus, their discretionary income after the tax cuts will be even larger than Treasury has estimated.
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And in related tardiness Bennett notices that NGOs funded by her Ministry are likely to be nailed by the GST increase.