Labour has finally unveiled its election tax policy. To be honest, I didn’t think that they would; they have already said that this is a COVID election and made it clear they were not going to announce much if any, policy before the election. But they were being called
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Press Release: National Party The news that the Government has rejected adding road maintenance to its list of shovel-ready projects is concerning, National’s Transport spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “National has allocated $300 million from its record $31 billion transport infrastructure package for immediate deployment on ‘digger-ready’ funding for our
The so-called “experts” made a simple, but huge – absolutely huge – mistake and over-stated the mortality of COVID to the power of 10, yes, really, not 2, nor 3, but 10! From Cambridge University Press, authored by Ronald B. Brown, PhD: “Public health lessons learned from biases in coronavirus mortality overestimation“
Press Release: National Party Less than six weeks before the election, Labour continues to conceal its tax intentions and it’s time to come clean, National’s Finance spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “Grant Robertson has made it clear that Labour wants more revenue. “What would that mean for Kiwi taxpayers?
If the Green school of crystals was not evidence enough of the crazy world the Greens think we should all be living in, then the latest bit of madness from local councils should have us all really worried. It seems that councils all across New Zealand are now required to
After the big failures of Labour’s last set of election promises, I’ve been waiting to see what big plans they’ve got to “keep moving” our economy which has hit the wall after two lockdowns and promises of more to come. Would they provide small business with tax
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Last week I wrote a post in regard to a recent announcement from Acting Superintendent Gini Welch that the NZ Police would now be operating a zero-tolerance speed limit breach policy permanently. In that post, I looked at some of the thinking behind the Police’s sudden urge to ticket
I have always said that the Greens are people who live in an ideological world, but I have recently changed my view. Their world is not entirely ideological. It is, in fact, quite possible. They live in a world where there are cycle lanes everywhere, pop-up walkways, few cars (and
New Zealand’s national carrier is well on the way to emulating its national symbol: a flightless bird at risk of extinction. Like the kiwi, Air New Zealand’s possible demise is the result of predators and the loss of its natural habitat – international air travel – due to human interference.
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com There’s a tradition in New Zealand for our trading banks to employ economists who for whatever reason, periodically talk vacuous tosh. I’ve written about this before, citing examples going back 30 years, such as the Westpac economist in the early 1990s, wringing his
I’m back in Wellington, having spent a few weeks in the South Island. Last time I was here, we were in Level 1, and life was pretty much as normal, but not now. In spite of there being no cases in Wellington, and absolutely none in the South Island,
Free Press The ACT Party As recently as last Monday, Auckland needed to stay at Level 3 for another week to defeat the virus. Yesterday it turned out that Level 2.5 was sufficient. New Zealanders want to trust the Government, but changes without rhyme or reason make it difficult.
Cheerleaders for massive, police-state lockdowns invariably justify their taste for authoritarianism by pious moralising. “It’s all about saving lives,” they self-righteously intone. “If it saves just one life, it’s worth it.” This is a hollow argument even on its own merits: the panic-mongers don’t, for instance, shut
