More money will be channeled to ever-growing bureaucracies whose sole function, whose only reason for existence, is to identify theoretical threats that can be used to close economies, remove the livelihoods of others, and extract more of their remaining wealth.
Your council is quietly guaranteeing other councils’ debts. Discover how local governments are gambling with your rates – and your sovereignty.
History shows that’s never a good idea.
Whānau Ora should be dismantled. This isn’t empowerment: it is exploitation of the system by those lucky enough to sit at the top. The people it was meant to help never see the benefit. The insiders make sure of that.
Chinese people had the lowest dependency rate at 2.4 per cent. The highest rate is for Māori at 23 per cent.
Some might blame Jane and her mum for being scroungers. As it happens I don’t: they seem to me to be making a perfectly logical, if short-term, financial decision. £72 a week is available so why not take it?
Where you’re being taxed on money you haven’t even made yet.
Paying able-bodied people to stay at home and not earn their living is probably the biggest social miscalculation of the last 60 years. Unwinding it won’t be easy.
Arnold’s way of thinking always gets applause – because he’s telling people what they want to believe about America. But it’s time to get real.
He predicts a future like the one that crippled Greece, triggered by the bond markets turning on Britain as the “weakest wildebeest in the herd”, and the remorseless march to electoral oblivion Labour seems hell-bent on.
Charity begins at home, Ukraine aid or political theatre.
Taking the high-spend, high-tax economy to a whole new level.
In a number of cases these submitters argue that the current number of cyclists they see in the area does not justify the investment, suggesting that the cycleway is unlikely to be well utilised.
Unfortunately for those of us who want to do our bit for reducing CO2, Ardern’s Government banned exploration in this field.
