Posts by Paul Campbell
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Today's Tremain - editorial cartoon from the ODT
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Tremain from today's ODT .... as relevant here as just about anywhere
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Hard News: Behind those Herald…, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Generation Rent-Seeker has become just as powerful as an upper house, and it’ll likely take one of those horsemen to dislodge them.
So ... a plague upon their houses ... perhaps we need some Aussie termites
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Hard News: Behind those Herald…, in reply to Kumara Republic,
A bailout of toxic mortgages would also drive a wedge between the market pragmatists and the market purists within the NACT bloc. I suspect both the red and blue blocs are secretly hoping the opposing bloc is in power if/when the housing bubble pops.
This is still my theory about why Key quit, he wanted to be out of there ahead of the bubble popping ... which kind of means he expects it to happen before the election and he's leaving English holding the bag of poo
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These articles are also putting expectations on parents .... we've saved and budgetted to put our kids thru Uni, and out the other end with no debt, trying to give them the same start in life we had.
Now the Herald thinks we're expected to mortgage our retirement savings to set them up with a house as well?
The real problem is simple - property prices are going up faster than inflation ... and it's largly because profits from property are tax free - time to tax capital gains. And of course because of all the house-porn on TV.
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Yes it's odd, and amatuerish is a bunch of ways, I'm not sure if it's bogus and dirty politics in its own right, or just netsafe not being professional in and around their job enforcing this new law
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Dirty Politics rears its ugly head again somone seems to be using Netsafe and the Harmful Digital Communications Act to whitewash the past
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Here's another Guardian article on the same phenomenom
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Of course some of those are legal drugs - I had surgery last week and they sent me home with codeine ... I guess you have to control for legal doses to get something meaningful
I wonder if sudafed/etc show up as meth?
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But we already don't tax capital gains
