Posts by Joshua Arbury
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"Just thinking", that is not quite correct. Petrol taxes/RUCs do pay for all the construction of new state highways and half the construction of local roads.
Joyce is wrong when he says that roading is self-funded, because of that council funding. So basically he lied in today's interview on Morning Report.
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I missed that RB (being jarbury myself). It sounded to me like it was John Key who was out of his depth.
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For anyone who missed it, here's Mary Wilson's interview of John Key.
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From the NZ Herald today:
Also last night, Labour leader Phil Goff revealed that he approached Mr Key a month ago with a complaint about "inappropriate" behaviour by Dr Worth towards a woman.
"It was offers of political positions [on boards] with the underlying sense that Dr Worth was interested in the woman, shall I say, romantically," Mr Goff said.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10576305
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It's all about demographics isn't it? At the moment (and for the next decade or two) the baby boomers population bulge will be in the 45-65 age group and therefore in their prime income-earning years. In the future we will have proportionately fewer people in those prime income earning years - so it makes sense to find a way to counter-balance that problem.
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The interesting thing about Japan is that while their economy hasn't grown like crazy in the last 10-20 years, and their sharemarket is 25% of what it used to be, the people there still have one of the highest standards of living anywhere in the world.
Is Japan really that bad? Or do they show us the future where you can have a high standard of living without an obsession of "growing the economy" all the time?
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Bill English is sure putting all his eggs in the basket of "things will be much much better in 10-15 years time than they are now".
One just needs to quickly think about Peak Oil to be highly sceptical of that approach.
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Cue "government is now Worth-less" jokes.
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Setting aside the superannuation debacle, I think the strangest thing we have in this budget is how it seriously goes against what pretty much every other developed-world economy is doing to get itself out of the recession. That is, having a half-decent stimulus package for more than just the rich, and really focusing on keeping people in work. Kind of like the Green New Deal really.
Are we right and the rest of the world wrong, or vice versa? Personally I’m going to go with the majority.
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I never understood why the Super 12/14/15 is played earlier in the year than the NPC. Surely it would make sense to play the NPC in Feb-May and then the tests, and then the top few teams from the NPC go into a Champions league type tournament with the top Aussie & South African teams in September/October.