David Seymour ACT Party Leader I have to be honest with you. The new Government has opened up Labour’s books and discovered a fiscal mess. Prior to the election, Labour was proudly claiming a $2.1 billion surplus in 2027. But Wednesday’s Half Year Economic and Fiscal Update
As I wrote recently, the NZ media greedily snatched the PIJF funding like the cheap whores they are, even though they would have happily put out for Labor for free. “Like the political nymphomaniac hookers they are, they just love doing it anyway: getting paid was a bonus.” And the
When is a tax not a tax? When the government doesn’t want to admit that it’s imposing yet another tax. So, they call it a “levy”, a “duty”, or even just a “price”. Because they know perfectly well that if they were thieving yet more of people’s
Peter St Onge Peter St Onge is a Mises Institute Associated Scholar and an Economic Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. St Onge received his PhD from George Mason University and was a 2014 Mises Institute Research Fellow. For more content from Dr St Onge. mises.org A few days
“We have discovered and had to dispose of various vegetables, perishables, meat products, eggs, milk and other dairy products that had obviously expired and could not have been consumed due to their deteriorated states. Once the refrigeration devices were removed, through the liquidation process, many of these items were left
Jeffrey A Tucker Jeffrey Tucker is Founder, Author, and President at Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social philosophy,
I recently leased a PO box for business purposes. It turns out to have been an unintentionally prescient move: Australia Post has mooted plans to cut residential delivery from daily to every two days. We’ve come a long way from the ‘primitive’ 19th century, when mail was delivered twice
Alexander Plum Senior Research Fellow in Applied Labour Economics Kabir Dasgupta Research Associate Auckland University of Technology New Zealand has made substantial progress on promoting LGBTQ+ rights over the past 20 years, including legalising same-sex civil unions in 2004, legalising same-sex marriage in 2013, and banning conversion practices in 2022.
Taxes up, working and middle-class Australians being squeezed of every penny, the beneficiary class ballooning… Tell me this isn’t a modern Labor government. Just don’t try and tell me that Labor is “the party of the worker”. It hasn’t been true in decades. Labor is now unapologetically
Alison Pavlovich Senior lecturer in the School of Accounting and Commercial Law Victoria University of Wellington The new coalition government has announced a suite of tax reforms, including reintroducing the ability for property investors to deduct the interest costs on their mortgages against their rental income. Early criticism of the
Graham J Noble libertynation.com Hunter Biden found himself in significantly deeper legal trouble on December 7, when a grand jury indictment was filed in the US District Court for the Central District of California. The younger Biden is charged with nine counts relating to federal tax crimes. The charges
Bonner Cohen, Ph. D Bonner R. Cohen is a senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research, where he concentrates on energy, natural resources, and international relations. He also serves as a senior policy adviser with the Heartland Institute, senior policy analyst with the Committee for a Constructive
Michael Ryan University of Waikato theconversation.com New finance minister Nicola Willis has claimed she was blindsided by the state of the government’s books. Days after stepping into the role, she said: The outgoing government has left us with some nasty surprises. There are some fiscal risks that are
Lawrence W. Reed fee.org Lawrence W Reed is FEE’s President Emeritus, Humphreys Family Senior Fellow, and Ron Manners Global Ambassador for Liberty, having served for nearly 11 years as FEE’s president (2008-2019). He is author of the 2020 book, Was Jesus a Socialist? as well as Real
Nicolás Cachanosky Dr Cachanosky is Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Free Enterprise at The University of Texas at El Paso Woody L. Hunt College of Business. He is also Fellow of the UCEMA Friedman-Hayek Center for the Study of a Free Society. He served as
Speaking to Q+A, the new finance minister suggested the outgoing Labour Government had left “some nasty surprises” in the form of “pretty significant” fiscal risks. “It’s fair to say that the outgoing government has left us with some nasty surprises. There are some fiscal risks that are pretty
