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The ‘Everyone is Better Off’ Mirage

The ‘Everyone is Better Off’ Mirage

Smoke & Mirrors So I have been reflecting on how the CoL (and the Media Party) do their propaganda campaigns in relation to tax in general; a real gem is when they call them ‘levies’ not taxes and do so with straight faces. The most recent example was when Jacinda

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2020: Back to the Future on Tax Policy

2020: Back to the Future on Tax Policy

The biggest problem with NZ First having scuppered Jacinda’s proposed Capital Gains Tax (CGT) is that the subject will never go away. Even if Jacinda adheres to her promise to never introduce it, the next Labour leader will bring the subject up again. It doesn’t matter what the

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Who Would Want to be an Employer?

Who Would Want to be an Employer?

A few years ago, we were looking for an extra accountant for our practice. Applicants were in relatively short supply, but we were approached by an accountant living in Tauranga. He was qualified, had about 5 years experience, seemed nice enough and he was happy to relocate to Wellington. Also,

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More Low-end Job Losses Coming Next Year

More Low-end Job Losses Coming Next Year

Merry Christmas from the COL. Another kick in the guts for both business and young people has been announced. The COL think that they are playing Santa Claus but what they are delivering is a lump of coal. Socialists don’t understand how business works just as they don’t

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Brash: No Justification for Race-based Spectrum Give-away

Brash: No Justification for Race-based Spectrum Give-away

Press release: Hobson’s Pledge There is not the slightest justification for allocating any resource which is the common property of all New Zealanders on the basis of race, Hobson’s Pledge spokesman Don Brash said yesterday. In a deal announced Monday, Telcos will be able to bid for 160MHz

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How to Be a Penniless Billionaire

How to Be a Penniless Billionaire

As you may be aware, Vernon Unsworth (hero of the Philippines cave rescue) recently lost a defamation case against Elon Musk, who had called him a “pedo”. Such are the vagaries of American defamation law that, even though the accusation was completely false, and Musk admitted as much, Unsworth lost

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Investment in Canadian Cannabis Burns Stockholders

Investment in Canadian Cannabis Burns Stockholders

At first glance on paper legal cannabis should be a lucrative investment. Thanks to the addictive nature of the product once you have a customer you are likely to have them for life so repeat business is guaranteed. Even better there is also the medical side of the business which

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Shovel Ready?

Shovel Ready?

Ladies and gentlemen, the 2020 election campaign has officially started, and it will be the longest campaign of your lifetime. After promising to build 100,000 houses (and failing) and promising to build a light rail system in Auckland (and making very little progress to date), the government has announced

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NZ’s Version of the ‘Amazon Tax’

NZ’s Version of the ‘Amazon Tax’

Smoke & Mirrors Sunday was the day we all started paying GST on internet shopping. It’s New Zealand’s version of the ‘Amazon Tax’ which, according to the Labour Government, is supposed to level the playing field for domestic retailers. So the place you buy stuff from in Armenia

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‘Women are an Actively Oppressed Minority in NZ’ ( Eye Roll)

‘Women are an Actively Oppressed Minority in NZ’ ( Eye Roll)

To be clear I have no issue with women, equality, free speech, LGBT or human rights. I have an issue with nations and companies implementing bigotry, racism, apartheid, sexism and social manipulation by deceit. Here is a link to a new piece of NZ Women only legislation, as we seemingly

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HDPA Makes an Awful Lot of Presumptions

HDPA Makes an Awful Lot of Presumptions

I don’t often read anything written by Heather Du Plessis-Allan, she kind of winds me up so I just don’t click on her articles. But her latest ‘Premium’ article in ‘A newspaper’ piqued my interest. I had been thinking about doing a post about the Woman Who Isn’

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I Am Not Maori…

I Am Not Maori…

I listen to Red Radio at times… not by choice, but because my husband likes it. The other day, I asked him how fluent he was in Maori these days. He said not at all. I said that he must be if he listens to this stuff day after day,

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The Five Scary New Rules of Upside-Down Capitalism

The Five Scary New Rules of Upside-Down Capitalism

Information Extract from an article by Simon Black at Sovereignman.com Roughly 23,000 years ago in modern-day Israel, a small tribe of ex-cave dwellers built a tiny village near the Sea of Galilee that may have been one of the earliest agrarian societies in human history. Archaeologists discovered the

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Climate Change Ate Qantas’s Homework

Climate Change Ate Qantas’s Homework

To adopt a quote from Homer Simpson, “Climate change: is there anything it can’t do?” So far, the dazzling list of things supposedly caused by climate change included everything from a decline in circumcisions, struggling brothels and even the Earth spinning faster. Now, we can add shitty service from

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Thursday Nightcap

Thursday Nightcap

Policy in 60 Seconds: Rio Tinto International mineral giant Rio Tinto is angling for another taxpayer-funded bailout. Islay explains how this could go terribly wrong.

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