Posts by David Cormack
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re the difficulties in debating, can I just say that Lew nails it. We had a backward and forwards the other night and it was calm, reasonable and he was really persuasive…140 characters at a time. So it can be done.
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Ziiiiiiiiing
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I am so pleased you included Hell March. When I read the title of the post I was already heading to YouTube to get the link to Hell March. And then you posted it! Ah happy times being reminded of my teenage nerdish years.
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Isn't this a job for Keith Ng?
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Tim Murphy is really not helping this situation by 'hyping' the 'spat' between them via his Twitter account.
Journalists behaving like MPs who behave like children.
Le sigh.
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Man you write complicated stuff in a very clear and cogent way. Thank you!
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Hard News: The frustrating politics of…, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Damn those pesky Russians and Georgians...
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I've wondered if Helen Clark's Labour Govt was stymied somewhat by a very draconian Jim Anderton - I still have friends who bitch and moan about Nos being made illegal.
I sympathise with politicians on this issue. The majority of people (I think) still believe that drugs are bad mmkay and as such bad things should have punishments attached to them. Very few people talk about the successes they've had in Portugal where everything got decriminalised - Glen Greenwald's Cato institute did a fantastic review of it and signs were all almost universally positive.
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Two quotes from the press release:
“These targets are not a wish-list – they are a to-do list"
"Some of these targets are very aspirational – in fact, some of them will be extremely difficult to achieve”Truly we are blessed to live in such Orwellian times
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Argument for b comes from behavioural economics: Subsidising some, but not others makes the unsubsidised choice appear worse than if none were subsidised at all.
So just to play devil's advocate, if you were to make the allowance only for undergrad, you would potentially disincentivise people from doing tertiary study, but once they were there they wouldn't be disincentivised from doing post-grad if EVERYONE had to get a loan. Or a scholarship?