Posts by Kyle Matthews
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If you pay people in high places peanuts, you invite influence.
If we take away the travel perk, what's left is $130 000 - $393 000 worth of peanuts.
There may be good arguments for replacing the travel perk with a pile of cash, "they're being paid peanuts" isn't one of them.
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Dean Knight, a senior lecturer in public law at Victoria University, said while MPs were not technically employees whose perks were in contracts, it would be difficult to remove them without compensation.
He said a case could be made for stripping Taito Phillip Field of the privilege on the grounds of strong public interest, because of his convictions.
That doesn't make much sense to me. If Phillip Field was an employee you couldn't remove the perks as they would form part of a contract. And yet you can do it for him as an MP, but not others. Sounds like a moral argument dressed up as a legal one to me.
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I don’t recall the specifics but I’m pretty sure he was allowed free bus, train and maybe airline travel, anywhere/anytime sort of thing.
Ironic given the controversy around the $30K or so that he got reimbursed for taxis one year, that he ever incurred any other travel expenses.
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So you have to carry something in order to prove you dont have to carry it?
Exactly. Poor guy was probably just following procedure Dyan.
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He demanded a passport - something a Canadian didn't need travelling through the USA or Mexico.
Wouldn't your passport be the way you prove you are Canadian?
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I can't process sentences which have "Roger Douglas" and "moral right" in them.
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My suggestion was simply that we examine costs and benefits, rather than embarking on knee-jerk actions to make unhappy headlines go away.
The chances of any calm, reasoned, careful debate which takes in all sides are basically nil this week, as we're a year out from an election and both sides see votes in play. Thanks for playing though!
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Come on Kyle, it’s not like you to play the player not the ball.
Did the pope sign up for PAS? Because I've got some things I want to share with him.
Otherwise, not the player, just a religious belief system.
just that we should try and reign them in a bit.
Kings have reigns, horses have reins (this frustrates me immensely, so I point it out even though I likely make similar errors).
And from the front page of the survey:
Always honor your parents above the results of the survey. (Ephesians 6:1-3)
I didn't know that they had surveys 2000 years ago. I thought things were just decreed.
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I’m saying we should reign in teenagers from giving out sexual signals.
Catholicism, raging against biology for 2000 years.