Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Budget 2011: While you wait, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
the low rates of taxation asked of NZ dairy farmers
Comprehensive discussion about that at Bernard Hickey's place.
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Hard News: Budget 2011: While you wait, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I better get my mound of headless, exsanguinated kittens or else.
Brash may have scarfed those backstage already.
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Hard News: Budget 2011: While you wait, in reply to Idiot Savant,
we could eliminate Treasury and replace it with an Excel script
Be interesting to see if yet again they escape the budget cuts to all other departments.
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Hard News: Budget 2011: While you wait, in reply to Russell Brown,
Far out.
You can see why Brash, Douglas and co are saying this government is not being bold enough, too.
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Hard News: Budget 2011: While you wait, in reply to Jimmy Southgate,
Doctors aren't exactly the sort of people normally associated with being a wage slave are they?
Distorted expectations - the Thorndon bubble strikes again..
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Hard News: Some Lines for Labour, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
it doesn't matter how nice the frame is if the picture is rubbish
Please do share your critique of the painting, as it looked pretty good from here compared with some of the childish doodling on offer previously.
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And the second graph on this associated post is quite chilling.
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Cunliffe graphs the composition of the deficit for the last few years. Worth a look.
When we look at the GDP growth forecasts vs reality for the same period, the answer becomes clear. Every year, National has projected that a return to strong growth is just around the corner which will mean more tax take, lower benefit costs – and a smaller deficit. But it hasn’t eventuated.
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Murray McCully's squeeze says everyone will hurt; perhaps presages some of the associated talking points from the government.
The Listener's political columnist Jane Clifton thinks there probably won't be a person left in the country not adversely affected by today's Budget.
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Ms Clifton says the difficulty for Labour is what the alternative is because the tax increases it's suggesting are aimed at people who are not wealthy in reality.
"It got into trouble when it was in Government for just that reason because what it deemed the wealthy income earners are actually mostly wage slaves like doctors, plumbers, teachers, nurses, police officers and so on," she told Newstalk ZB's Mike Hosking.
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Southerly: That CERA Rumour, in reply to David Haywood,
Hugh Fletcher secretly funds this blog (he was at King's College with Russell Brown)
I thought they were teammates at Paremoremo Boys' High