Posts by Sacha
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OnPoint: Budget 2011: A Credible Path to…, in reply to Alastair Thompson,
if the heroic forecasts turn out to be wrong ... then the cuts ought to be a lot deeper
Some might say that's the plan
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Hard News: Budget 2011: While you wait, in reply to Russell Brown,
a killer Keynote presentation
do you really see him as a Mac user?
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OnPoint: Budget 2011: A Credible Path to…, in reply to Sacha,
Treasury's heroic predictions
Te Standard has insight (humour)
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OnPoint: Budget 2011: A Credible Path to…, in reply to Russell Brown,
sounds like a rather poor show
Really unambitious, even on their own terms. And will come unstuck very quickly when Treasury's heroic predictions turn out to be as accurate as all their previous ones. Still, never mind, that won't be until after the election, eh. Bit of rugby in the meantime.
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OnPoint: Budget 2011: A Credible Path to…, in reply to Danyl Mclauchlan,
For some reason
Neoliberal magic beans ftw
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OnPoint: Budget 2011: Radioactive Space Donut, in reply to Steve Barnes,
while we wait for Keith’s analysis
Ahem - been over here for a lil while.
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Don't forget, this is the argument National ran against Kiwisaver when it first began, that employer contributions ultimately came out of employee's pockets.
Didn't they change the rules some time since 2008 to enable just that?
For many, the increase in employer contribution to 3% and the sneaky imposition of tax on that will all end up coming from workers in the form of smaller pay rises.
That's rather than removing the recent personal tax cuts from the wealthiest, or reversing massive ETS subsidies to farmers and truckies. All choices, no matter what English, Joyce and Key might want voters to believe.
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OnPoint: Budget 2011: Radioactive Space Donut, in reply to Tom Beard,
Red-green colourblindness is much more common than we usually think
4%
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Southerly: That CERA Rumour, in reply to Isabel Hitchings,
I'm fairly sure they all came from people who have never used a bus for anything other than novelty value.
and for whom buses are things that get in the way of cars
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Hard News: Budget 2011: While you wait, in reply to Mark Hansen,
Ta. And Keith's visualisation is over here.