Posts by Sacha
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Cracker: Another Capital Idea..., in reply to Hilary Stace,
More significant than a CGT is Labour's suggested commitment to making all policy child-centred.
It's only 'more signifcant' if you have no interest in economic policy (or in how the other policies will be paid for).
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Cracker: Another Capital Idea..., in reply to giovanni tiso,
Welfare benefits are set 20% below the poverty line. I fully realise that middle class New Zealand liberals are past masters at not giving a shit about any of that, but I say we can do better.
You'd be surpised how many NZers don't know what Richardson and Shipley did in their name - and which every government (and opposition) since has chosen not to challenge.
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Cracker: Another Capital Idea..., in reply to Kumara Republic,
Income tax rates aside, it's a well-busted myth that high taxes make NZers emigrate. The real reasons are that NZ is a small fish in a big sea, and that there aren't enough specialist or otherwise interesting jobs for the most talented NZers (because all the investment money has gone into housing speculation).
And you surely don't need to be a lefty to understand that a CGT would mitigate some of the damage from those distorted investment patterns.
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Hard News: The Orcon Great Blend 2011 in…, in reply to Gee,
"Ladies a plate, men a crate"
Need someting to sit on, after all..
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Cracker: Another Capital Idea..., in reply to Damian Christie,
You wanna see the people already paying by far the lion's share of the tax all fuck off overseas?
I'd prefer they stayed for the right reasons - not because we've arranged things so it's too easy for them to rip off others and not pull their weight.
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Cracker: Another Capital Idea..., in reply to Danielle,
That's a rather 'wood for the trees' sort of mythbusting, though, isn't it?
bog-standard derailing
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Hard News: The Orcon Great Blend 2011 in…, in reply to Jackie Clark,
this attach button
..bound to be used mostly for the sharing of *serious reports*
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Speaker: John and Phil meet Bob, in reply to Russell Brown,
if you promise to use it wisely
We all know where that leads..
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Speaker: John and Phil meet Bob, in reply to recordari,
IME it is human error
No. Only started appearing at a certain time, is always out by exactly one post, and I'd therefore bet on a buggy CMS update. Probably one line of code.
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Hard News: The Orcon Great Blend 2011 in…, in reply to Noodly,
the News of the Screws' Downfall
"Why not give blogging a go?"
roflnui