RNZ Catches up on News Reported Here Over a Month Ago
Let’s hope if the coalition survives the 2026 election, ACT gets to exercise far more influence in this area. Two forgotten words desperately in need of rehabilitation – Personal Responsibility.
Economy
The Economic Fallout Six Years On
Avert not your eyes: life for civilized people entered into a period of barbarism from which we’ve yet to emerge.
We Are Finally Waking Up
This is what late-stage institutional decay looks like. Not a dramatic collapse, but a slow, grinding loss of competence and legitimacy – where the government’s primary function shifts from solving problems to perpetuating itself.
This Should Concern Every Taxpayer
The cost of it isn’t borne by the teacher, or by the college. It’s borne by every working person paying tax in this country – including the majority who will never come close to anything like it.
They Track Every Dollar You Move
Yet, they ignored $378 million of Epstein’s. The entire Know Your Customer regime, the Currency Transaction Reports, the Suspicious Activity Reports, FATCA, the anti-structuring laws – all of it functions perfectly. Against you.
Dollars, Cents and Trade-Offs of Drug Legalization
What would happen if all class one narcotics were legalized?
The 92% Tax That Nobody Ever Paid
If they spent as much energy making it easier to build a business as they do dreaming up new ways to ‘soak the rich,’ the tax base would take care of itself.
What It Actually Costs To Live ‘Green’ Like Chris Hipkins
Forget ‘let them eat cake’, now it’s ‘let them have solar’.
Why Economic Freedom Does Matter
Economic freedom is not a luxury for the rich. It is a set of rules that make it possible for the vast majority of people to do well.
Who Has the Courage To Fix This?
Declaring something impossible doesn’t make the debt disappear. It just means that the reckoning will happen on worse terms, probably in a crisis, almost certainly at the worst possible moment.
Grant Has a Point on Luxon’s Hollow Words, but His Peters’ Obsession Shows His ACT Bias
All up, not a bad effort from Damien Grant. He nails National’s dismal record on spending and ends with a call to arms: grab a chainsaw and go after the deep state bureaucrats, Javier Milei style.
Christchurch Airport Posts Strong Half-Year Growth
Passenger numbers increased 7.2 per cent to 3.4 million during the period, with international travel surging 15.2 per cent and domestic travel rising 4.8 per cent.
