Just having a look at the speech from Labour on savings. One bit that has caught my eye so far is: The Government collected tax, which is compulsory, and saved it for the future. Now this is true, tax is compulsory. And one way of looking at “compulsory savings” is as an increase in the […]
So Don Brash spoke out against compulsory savings, as did Gareth Morgan (note that both would benefit personally from the policy, to a large degree). John Carran’s article sums up how Infometrics feels about the policy. And I am under the impression that every single NZ economics blogger that has touched the issue has said […]
I am a bit tied down at present (which should be obvious by my lack of response to comments). However, I just had to pop around to say that I approve of the team for the savings working group – bunch of great thinkers that will look at the issue objectively, and come up with […]
One of the main reasons the government wants to crack down on alcohol is because of the “scenes no civilized society can relish“, which is when people of the age of 18-24 go into town and run amok – causing definite damage to other people, in some way, or something. So they are introducing a […]
Their case is so compelling, they don’t need to actually make it. Also, rewriting the start for kicks I find … So compelling is the case for slavery that it is a mystery why the Government is setting up yet another working group [ed “so compelling is the case” WTF, did Yoda write this – […]
I’ve found that I don’t learn much reading – I prefer to write things in order to learn them. I don’t know what it is, when I’m reading I just stop paying attention. My favourite way to learn things is for someone to say it at me – but this isn’t always practical. As a […]