Posts by Gareth Ward
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I tried to find out at Scooter Emotions site, but their product pages are down - presumedly a dastardly hack from Big Oil...
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I've thought about a scooter but feel that rather than using it instead of my car I'd use it instead of walking.
Actually this is a very good point. Given I walk to work in 20-odd mins at the moment, I wouldn't be saving much with a scooter. However I think I'd prefer to leave a scooter at home than the car as I currently do!
Senor Christie, may I ask what sort of dosh you have to hand over for a machine like yours? -
You are not alone
Hahaha, magnificent. And an eerily accurate rendition of my grey-market milk experience, sans the queue of Twix-loving murderers...
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I needed milk at about 10pm last night, and the Williamson Ave petrol station would only sell it to me via that "bullet-proof screen and sliding box" night sales assembly.
While it may have simply been because they were closed, it did make it feel all rather clandestine-Soviet-blackmarket-food-stamps-aid styles. Didn't half feel like hiding it under my coat on the walk back home...Perhaps I shouldn't have played Grand Theft Auto before heading out for it either...
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However, given that the flat tax high growth belief is taken as axiomatic in some quarters, you'd like to think that <i>something</i> would leap from the data somewhere. It doesn't
This is exactly what prompted my initial question (and serious thanks to both of you for linking me into the various acadamic debates on it, have been looking for a while). I could see the arguments, but could also see some significant restraints on the potential benefits.
I'm a little surprised at how little empirical support there is for it (given it's widely held belief - it is in fact the underpinning of National's productivity policy), even if there are some well constructed economic theories. Although it seems that even neo-classically based theories that have multiple variables built in don't do a great job of representing the no-handy-assumptions real world. -
Terence W: Excellent, thanks very much, even if you have simply confirmed a suspicion that the empirical backing for the theory simply isn't there!
This quote from an article you linked to summed up my view on things:
The scope for higher earners to reduce labour supply, even if they wanted to, is limited (at least in the short-term). There are very few part-time chief executives, or part-time derivatives traders. -
How odd. That doesn't seem to have been reported at all here.
Yes, but what was it in? The paralympics are still a few months away yet, so may have just been a minor warmup tourney of some form...
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Putting aside the "China is evil/boycott the Olympics" politics for a moment, Herzog and de Meuron did a pretty incredible job on that building...
Between the Tate, this and that Philarmonic Hall in Germany (not sure if that's finished yet?) they've put together some of the best buildings around really... -
Such cuts would have delivered massive windfalls to the rich. But, argues Brash, they would also strengthen incentives for hard work.
Possibly the wrong site to be asking this on, but have been looking for a while for documented evidence of this "lower top tax rates incentivising hard work". I understand the theories of marginal income etc, and can see how it may have an impact on secondary/part-time employment but does anyone know of a study that actually suggests what the national impact would possibly be? i.e. what growth we would expect?
Even Treasury having a "we expect incomes to grow by x% over the next x years, therefore evening out the initial tax take loss" type of stuff...
I just want a view on the actual numbers behind it (of course it didn't exactly go swimmingly for Reagan huh) -
But they need to accept the simple fact that most of the people who support action on climate change are not out to destroy capitalism or globalisation.
Amen. I want to have the Greens in Parliament for their deep understanding of (and not-just-populist commitment to) the long-term impacts of a carbon-costed economic world. But every time I think "geez those main parties are pissing me off, maybe I'll vote in the Greens for that reason" they open their mouth and spout ideological ideas masquerading (poorly) as economic concepts. Tis a shame.
And those '04-'08 milk prices are extraordinary! I clearly don't pay attention in the supermarket because I honestly believed the "milk is horrendously more expensive than it ever has been" stories. Although "7% above the average of the last 4 years" just doesn't have the ring of "60% rise" does it...