At the 2020 election the Greens proposed a wealth tax. I remember being horrified that, if Labour needed the Greens to govern, they might make the introduction of a wealth tax one of their bottom lines. While we had often discussed a capital gains tax, this was the first time
Tierin-Rose Mandelburg Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021 and became staff shortly there after. newsbusters.
Ronald Stein Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book “Clean Energy Exploitations.” cfact.org Wind turbines, once touted by a few wealthy and less populated countries as a clean solution for electricity, are now becoming an
There’s no imported idea so bad or demonstrably so that the Albanese government isn’t prepared to fail at it, too. From nonsensically parroting the American “First Nations”, to “Net Zero”, there’s nothing that’s proved so disastrous that Albo and crew aren’t eagerly shouting, “We want
Make no mistake: Dan Andrews absolutely will survive the debacle of the Commonwealth Games cancellation. This is Victoria, after all: the Stockholm Syndrome State. The state where a premier mired in multiple scandals and corruption investigations, who unleashed the world’s longest lockdowns and the worst Covid figures in the
Kirk Hope CEO of BusinessNZ commonroomnz.com This article was first published on The Common Room Kiwis enjoy being free to earn some extra cash to supplement their income with app-based enterprises, including ridesharing, food delivery or short-term rentals. We also love to make use of the latest international services
The majority of New Zealanders don’t fit in either of the above demographics; the only political influence they have is on election day. This week saw discussion on Labour’s persistence with taxing ‘rich pricks’. Hipkins can’t extract any more tax from middle income earners because Labour desperately
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
Was there a single pandemic policy that wasn’t an unmitigated disaster? Outside of the odd, sane, jurisdiction like Sweden, North Dakota, or Florida, that is? Lockdowns were a diabolical failure. Forced Covid vaccinations, ditto. Mass masking and school closures were frankly evil. The Covid surveillance/snitch state just as
David Thunder David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society in Pamplona, Spain, and a recipient of the prestigious Ramón y Cajal research grant (2017-2021, extended through 2023), awarded by the Spanish government to support outstanding research activities. brownstone.org
Don Brash Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 bassettbrashandhide.com There is now a pretty widely shared consensus that inflation is undesirable for a variety of economic and social reasons. And around the world it has been widely
The Government and Grant Robertson would have you believe that everything is going swimmingly in the economy. This is despite them tipping us into recession, borrowing and spending like a drunken sailor, with poorly targeted government spending, like the multi-billion dollar Covid fund, all fuelling rampant inflation. Everything is just
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Fresh from the news that Labour wasted $531 million on expiring Rapid Antigen Tests, the interim financial statements for May show a Government in serious fiscal trouble. Previously damning forecasts can’t keep up with Grant Robertson’s fiscal incompetence. Looking at today’s interim
In a recent episode of what is surely the best sitcom of all time, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, degenerate businessman Frank Reynolds (Danny DeVito) delivers a pretty accurate lesson in the basics of inflation and recession. If only more of our chattering classes had a Frank Reynolds to
Rahul Sen Auckland University of Technology India’s economy has emerged as a bright spot in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently the fifth largest global economy, it is predicted to become the third largest by 2030. It is expected India will contribute 15.4% to global economic growth
Stuart Smith National MP for Kaikoura http://stuartsmith.national.org.nz/ The MMP electoral system in New Zealand has its flaws, and many people are not familiar with how it works. In reality, only two major parties have a realistic chance of forming a government: National or Labour. Some people
