Labour’s Capital Gains Tax Is Actually a Tax on Inflation
Labour governments tend to boost inflation. Chris Hipkins now wants to tax inflation as well.
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An Attack on the Open Society
When a prime minister treats the defence of female private space as planetary eccentricity, the open society is already yielding ground. The cost is paid by the very girls and women the liberal order was supposed to protect.
Outgoing Commissioner Calls for Bigger Benefits
Claire Achmad has no understanding of behavioural economics. Or any other kind of economics.
Left Wing Violence Gets Another Free Pass
A society that cannot bring itself to condemn political violence and intimidation with equal force, regardless of the ideology of the perpetrators, is not serious about democracy.
The Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)
If our leaders genuinely care about the future of this country, they would stop pandering to the climate change tsars and start focusing on the actual prosperity of the country.
How African Kings and Merchants Controlled the Slave Trade
And profited handsomely from it.
Dear Diary: Lying About Covid Is Making Me Rich and Famous!
Many of the people who were wrong about everything STILL run the same institutions. They’re still unelected. And they’re still certain they were the heroes. This means the next emergency will be handled by the same class of ‘experts,’ with the same lack of oversight and accountability.
Radio NZ Manipulates the Facts, Again
RNZ has been caught red-handed doctoring an international news report from Reuters, shamelessly twisting the facts to fit whatever narrative their news editors are currently pushing.
Evolution of New Zealanders Into Entitled Aoteachondriacs
The future’s uncertain and the end is always near.
An Update on the Reform
As the coalition’s first term in government comes to a close, their focus must be on strengthening democracy, not weakening it.
Back in the USSR
Do you think that New York Mayor Mamdani’s socialist government grocery stores will work like those in capitalist countries or like those in the defunct Soviet Union?
Big Promises on City Grocery Stores
The New York City mayor has an ambitious and unrealistic plan.
A Skeptical Guide to UBI
As Milton Friedman once said, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.”
