PREFU and the June quarter GDP numbers have been announced this week. Yes, we all knew the numbers were going to be bad. But how bad? Well, the answer is very bad, yet the media, on both occasions, has played it down, saying (quoting the politicians) that things are ‘not
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David Seymour sees the huge opportunity the Greenies buried when they opposed oil and gas exploration and argued that mining will destroy valuable conservation land. How hard was it to look more closely at the one-third of our country unceremoniously bundled holus-bolus into Schedule Four conservation land in
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com What a hypocritical furore following the government’s announcement lifting the top tax rate from 36% to 39%. That means once over the threshold figure high-income earners must now work all Monday and Tuesday before they’ve left any money for themselves. Numerous journalists
We keep talking about it. COVID is going to create the worst recession in 160 years. Worse than the Great Depression of 1929. Worse than the downturn of the early 1990s. Definitely worse than the 2008 GFC. We are waiting for this economic tsunami to hit us, driving us all
Lizbet Hush Dear NZ Media and Politicians: No matter how much you try to find economists who claim that the COVID elimination strategy is great for the economy, the stories from the ground and reality aren’t reflecting the optimism. Businesses are restructuring and cutting locations, jobs and hours. Some
Jonathan Barrett Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Ability to pay is the basic principle of tax fairness: people in a similar financial position should pay similar amounts of tax; people who can afford to pay more tax than others ought to pay more tax. The first proposition is
It’s rather notable that the zealous defenders of brutal lockdowns so often resort to sanctimony in lieu of evidence. Which is understandable, really – because all the evidence is showing that lockdowns are destructive and useless. Cue pious sanctimony, stage left. “You can’t put a cost on human life!
Louis Houlbrooke Campaigns Manager New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union Labour’s New Tax Is About Envy, Not Slaying the Debt Monster Yesterday Grant Robertson announced the Labour Party’s new tax policy – the headline item being a new personal tax rate of 39 per cent for income over $180,000. It’
“California today, Australia tomorrow” tweets Malcolm Roberts as Californians are asked to turn off their power this week in the middle of a very hot summer’s day afternoon. Californian fires have been burning for weeks. No air conditioning for you says LA’s mayor. Presumably, hospitals have back up
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
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
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?
