Posts by Paul Litterick
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Would it be better if the law continued to prohibit paedophile acts but allowed the production of images that represent those acts? How could you be satisfied that an image represented someone over 16? Might not another viewer think the subject was 14 or 12? And might not the maker of the image intend it to represent someone younger than the age of consent?
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I'm really not sure what you mean by this.
I am relieved I am not the only one.
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Yes, and it's the stunning lack of ambition in digging up minerals to sell off for cents on the dollar rather than creating high-value export industries for our children's futures that gets me.
Me too. New Zealand is a land of plenty, filled with natural resources that will be sold to the highest bidder. Its citizens are of little value. The wealthiest among them need incentives to remain here or to be attracted here from overseas. The rest will get by, possibly. Their children are of little consequence.
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The GST increase would have been not-terrible if it had come bundled with genuinely sweeping tax reform (most particularly property and capital gains taxes) and smarter income tax (universal no-tax thresholds and so on.)
Why would they want to do that?
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Methinks the reference to the forthcoming war against students is a sweetener for the supporters. Some mainstream New Zealanders might realise that their economic interests are not being served by this budget, that only the rich will benefit; but they will be diverted from this stray thought by the shiny things that Key has mixed in to this mess.
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That he is, and we must admire his thinking: rich folk need to be incentivised by tax cuts; poor folk need to buy things, things called necessities. So the money for the rich can be raised from the poor, as well as from everyone in between. It is all a matter of wealth redistribution.
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As John Paul Getty once said "the meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights." Funny, innit, that the PM has ruled out a land tax; you could not make this stuff up.
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People, people, enough of this cynicism. Be of good cheer, for Mr Farrar brings news: the Government is going to grow the cake, so everyone benefits in time.
Yum, yum, delicious cake, in time. Meanwhile, more mining means more money for conservation.
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Most houses in NZ would be too damp to burn.
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Honestly, what a vile, bombastic, bellowing piece of work
by Bruce Logan, for once writing in his own words.