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The Burgeoning Crisis No One Is Talking about
Tiger Tiger is a tenacious, surprisingly well-educated animal, living and working in the real world. Having to come up with staff wages every week sharpens the senses. Business – the silent crisis. There is an unacknowledged crisis looming in New Zealand business courtesy of our politician imposed, and woke media
Daily News Roundup – 10 November 2020
New Government Josiah Banbury (Democracy Project): Labour won the election battle, but National won the ideological war Emile Donovan (RNZ): Why is Labour putting the brakes on its own political capital? Chris Trotter (Interest): Spring of hope? Winter of despair? Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Tax changes legislated by Christmas, as Government
A Treat for Non-subscribers
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Faces of the Day
The Government’s income tax changes will be legislated before Christmas and will come into force on April 1 next year. Labour campaigned on creating a new tax bracket for income earned over $180,000. The party proposed to tax income earned above $180,000 at 39 per cent. Read
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She Loves It You Will Too
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What the Hell Is Wrong with This Country?
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Again the effects of welfarism are manifested in waste and frustration. New Zealand is heading into peak harvest season and there aren’t enough workers to get fruit off trees or vegetables from the ground. “This could be my last crop,” says Heap, who grows
Daily News Roundup – 9 November 2020
Final election results Jason Walls (Herald): The five fascinating election special vote facts you might have missed Audrey Young (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ‘humbled’ by final election result Stuff: Editorial – Election 2020: A lesson in trusting democracy Australian Associated Press: New Zealand election: Labour and Maori parties gain MP
My Shadow Cabinet
I thought I’d have a bit of fun picking a shadow cabinet for the major roles. Here goes. See how close I get, probably not very. Finance – Christopher Luxon? Education – Nicola Willis Health – Shane Reti Agriculture – Andrew Bayly Transport – Michael Woodhouse Defence – Gerry Brownlee Foreign Affairs – Simon Bridges Trade
If You Are Going to Cheat, Be Smart
Many years ago a business friend was massively defrauded by a senior staff member. Some fraudulent cheques were easily shown to be so by a handwriting expert and the bank bore the cost; other cheques were in doubt. Excel was a fairly new tool back then, so he asked me
“Absolute Knob” of the Day
City councillor removes tweet calling public submitters ‘absolute knobs‘ A post by Wellington City councillor Tamatha Paul referring to public submitters as “absolute knobs” has been removed from Twitter. Paul made the comment about a group of Mt Victoria residents who were part of a video submission on the council’
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