NZ Must Rethink How It Pays for Aged Care
Stats NZ projects the proportion of people aged 65+ will reach 20 per cent of the population by 2028. In four years, there could be 30 people aged 65+ years for every 100 people aged 15–64 years.
Economy
Our Councils Are Out of Control
It is up to the people to take back control of the councils, or pay the price.
Can Kamala Make Americans Forget the Last Four Years?
Is the right to abort a fetus on demand enough to vote against their own financial interests? In the end, that may turn out to be the single most significant question undecided voters will ask themselves when they cast their ballots for president.
Welfare Is a Jealous Polygamist
Our welfare system traps women in hopeless lives, depending on a state that doesn’t really want them but is too jealous to let them go.
Why NZ Can’t Have a Fairer Tax System
When politicians and progressives are unwilling to participate in the debate on taxes, they simply hand over the ground to those with a greater interest in dominating the discourse.
Hipkins and Ardern Said We Beat the World on Covid
Our World In Data says the world is beating us.
More Numbers They Won’t Want to See
Big batteries send the cost of ‘Net Zero’ even higher into the stratosphere.
Whose Ethics Make It Ethical
For those with control over their own money, my suggestion is to simply invest in businesses that offer the best returns, and ignore those that virtue signal.
Yes, Wellington Has Taken a Hammering
This isn’t much consolation to those losing their jobs today but let’s hope that the unavoidable correction to Labour’s six years of over-cooking the economy with borrowed money doesn’t come with too much more pain.
Zippy’s Attacks Are a Piss-Poor Defence
Australian Treasurer blames everyone but himself.
Minister Hipkins Must Be Held to Account
Labour leader and former education minister Hipkins made maths mistakes and was dishonest about the economic implications of population ageing.
Resisting Centralist Power – Part 3
Federations are the best way to govern a large and diverse country like Australia and far better than the alternative, centralism – power and law making centralised in one place.
Time to Break up the Supermarket Duopoly
An embarrassing big con is being sold to New Zealanders. Hopefully the politicians and public soon learn to look beyond the duopoly’s plea to only have tweaks made to their dominance and then genuine reform can come.
‘Net Zero’ Makes Everything Go Up
When the price of energy goes up, so does the price of everything else.