Who Relies Most on Welfare?
Chinese people had the lowest dependency rate at 2.4 per cent. The highest rate is for Māori at 23 per cent.
Economy
The Human Cost of Starmer’s Welfare U-Turn
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?
Australia’s Schrödinger’s Super Tax
Where you’re being taxed on money you haven’t even made yet.
This Poverty Is a Modern Man-Made Monster
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.
Too Much Optimism Is Keeping America Down
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.
The Collapse Is Now Certain
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.
Our Donations to Zelensky’s Ukraine
Charity begins at home, Ukraine aid or political theatre.
The Latest Government Spending Review
Taking the high-spend, high-tax economy to a whole new level.
Residents Say They Could Do Without Cycleways
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.
GDP vs CO2
Unfortunately for those of us who want to do our bit for reducing CO2, Ardern’s Government banned exploration in this field.
She’s Back and So Is the Austerity
It’s as if she’s been wheeled out as a kind of ready-made austerity dispenser, a convenient tool to guilt and whip the already battered, overtaxed and overcharged people of New Zealand.
A Paean to Profit
The left simply does not understand the vital relationship between investment, innovation, risk and profit.
Oh Dear: “Trickle-Down”, Again
Trickle-down economics deserves recognition – as economics’ most successful bogeyman. Forever attacked, never defended, because there’s nobody home.
Greenpeace Whinges While Shane Jones Gets On With the Job
New Zealand’s resources are a gift and it’s madness to lock them away while we beg for scraps from overseas. Shane Jones is right to tell the world we’re open for business.