Primum non nocere, first do no harm. This is a good pledge for a medical professional, and would be a great pledge for a policy analyst, but it doesn’t make much sense as a pledge from an economist – as we don’t actually make decisions, we frame situations and describe trade-offs. However, this does not […]
In a shocking report on Scoop (ht GLS) I heard the following: A recent report revealed New Zealand has some of the lowest taxonomy rates in the OECD. :O If we are going to catch Australia in taxonomy rates, we need to have higher taxonomy rates! Bill English also made the following excellent point regarding […]
Ok, I haven’t seen an actual alternative budget – but given they are the main opposition I’ll turn what they have said into one, so that I can give them the same airtime as others. We have already discussed Act, Libertarians, and National – and I aim to get something on the Greens out by […]
Apologises for the EPIC delay in doing this. I wanted to have comments up by 6 (it was not out till nearly 10), but a meeting ran overtime, work servers went down, and my trip home from work on this was slower than expected. [ed. And the site went down …] First here are links […]
I have seen Bernard Hickey discuss the Budget. I am sure more will come. I will write tonight, and other authors will pop things up today – I can’t do any sooner as I am out of the office. It looks like it was a substantial change to tax rates – most of which were […]
The Libertarian party is the next group to release an alternate budget for Budget 2010 with further discussion here. I am glad to see more people doing alternative budgets, but as always I have some concerns: It is subject to the same criticisms as Sir Roger’s budget – namely the trade-off between equity and efficiency […]