OnPoint: Budget 2010: What’d you expect?
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(Isn't Sacha a boy?)
Oh right. Stereotype someone whilst they are down, why don't you...
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But does he believe in magic ponies?
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Well, spending on children's education has been cut, but at least they'll have roads of National significance for decades to come.
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From a quick look at the disability budget increase it seems the bulk of it is going to providers (private or NFPs) of residential, respite or home and community support. I just hope there is some incentive to make sure it really goes to better pay,training and conditions for the actual workers. And with some way for the auditing of that to be done by consumers.
There is a new peak body of providers and it looks like they have had a big influence on the Minister. A lesson there for others in the sector.
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3410,
Hey, Sacha. Fancy a tipple at 6?
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(Isn't Sacha a boy?)
i consider myself an equal opportunity sexist.
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Nono. Hold onto the pony, cover your pony mortgage and expenses entirely from renting it out, and then sell it off with a big capital gain.
Depends on interest rates.
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I thought you were against argumenti ad hominem.
Go pick up that bait your lobbed at my head before it leaves a blood stain on the carpet, that's a good chap.
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3410,
my favourite spectacularly disingenuous Budget reax
Just thought I'd take the chance to agree with you, Craig. :)
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Well, spending on children's education has been cut, but at least they'll have roads of National significance [to whore themselves on as adults] for decades to come
will be interesting to see how many parents are forced out of work by the cuts to childhood education subsidies.
one of my workmates has decided against more children for that very reason.
pity you can't just let the little fckers out to roam around a paddock like you can your average equine investment.
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Rich justice. Blue Chip douchemeister Mark Bryers gets 75 hours community service and $37,500 fine but is bankrupt so presumably doesn't have to pay it and is living well in Aus, thanks very much.
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Hey, Sacha. Fancy a tipple at 6?
Sorry, been in the kitchen. Might be cutting it a bit fine for me tonight.
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3410,
Okay.
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Rich justice. Mark Bryers gets 75 hours community service and $37,500 fine but is bankrupt so presumably doesn't have to pay it and is living well in Aus, thanks very much.
That's the New Zealand justice system for you. Meanwhile, National are spending billions more on new prisons, and have allocated more money so they can plan further prisons.
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For those wanting
ponies :(
I was expecting ponies.
A "pony" is slang in Britain for a five fivers, or 25 pounds.
So, about $52.75. How's that line up with your expectation?
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the suspension of payments to the super fund
note these have now been extended another two years to 2018
Nice of them to choose to not save for our retirement.
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Although you'll have got a Monkey or three if you're in the top brackets. (One monkey=20 ponies)
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A pony used to be a very small glass of beer (5 oz. IIRC.)
I dont even expect that much from the current government... -
Thought I'd better edit to clarify who Bryers is
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Sorry, been in the kitchen. Might be cutting it a bit fine for me tonight.
Well what about 6.30, same pub, same peoples :) I gotta get the gas bottle filled for the heater so running late.
3410, take note. :)
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I thought that part of National's cunning plan was to equalise the top personal rate and the company rate, it has been reduced from 8% to 5%, but that is still quite a gap.
After all the bleating about the borrowing that is going on, the Govt now has to borrow to pay for these cuts. I guess it would never come from this flavour Govt, but a top threshold of say $150,000 with a 38% rate would have taken care of the borrowing (If Idiot/Savants numbers are correct, and I have no reason not to believe them).
@Sacha - agreed re Bryers. What is the point of handing out a huge fine to a bankrupt? Bizzare.
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a top threshold of say $150,000 with a 38% rate would have taken care of the borrowing
You want somebody who earns* over 150k to pay five more cents in every dollar earned above that bare subsistence amount? You monster!
*(that's got to be a term used quite loosely when you're that rich)
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they did equal it with the trust rate though didn't they? that will probably stop a lot of middle class rorts instead
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After all the bleating about the borrowing that is going on, the Govt now has to borrow to pay for these cuts.
And yet Vernon Small tells us that the budget is "impressive" and "stunning" budget for debt reduction.
It's only because Labour was so fiscally prudent that National can afford to rack up the debt again.
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You want somebody who earns* over 150k to pay five more cents in every dollar earned above that bare subsistence amount? You monster!
And as Lyndon Hood points out
Seems for his tax cuts Key's example is a young couple, just got married, on $50 000 each. #nohashtagcandojustice
It's a nice world Key lives in.
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