In a recent article on Cannabis seizures the police said: Based on the New Zealand Drug Harm Index, it was estimated that $379 million worth of social harm had been prevented by the operation So I looked up the drug harm index and found a release from BERL that stated: Cannabis is estimated to cause […]
From David Chaplin’s blog on the Herald site: If New Zealanders have a love affair with property investments, it’s one where government and regulators have acted as pimp. That is awesome – and very true.
From mouse on the rates blog comes this awesome quote: It looks like Infometrics have been Smoking some “Green Shoots”. Given I work at Infometrics, this quote is going to make its way onto my wall. Bloody brilliant 🙂
I had forgotten about this, but a while back CIS released a booklet with a few essays on “how to supersize NZ” (as in make the economy bigger, not supersize in the McDonalds sense). It was called Supersize New Zealand: A collection of essays on how to improve New Zealand’s public policy. Of course I’m […]
Whale Oil is unhappy with Bill English mentioning a capital gains tax. Specifically he says: In times of recession it isn’t that the government should be looking for more taxes. But there are two reasons why I think Bill English is correct at the moment. Bill English appears to be saying that he wants income […]
I need you guys to answer a question for me. Bill English said: If you want to stop people spending more, put GST up, but of course that has a big impact on people, particularly on lower incomes, so it’s not a straightforward issue. Now the first bit is a bit dodgy – putting up […]