Posts by Mike Graham
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Probably because the question was so straightforward
which was: “Do you support the proposed compulsory retirement savings scheme?”
A very straightforward question, but I seem to remember that the proposed scheme wasn't that good. As a result you got a lot of people voting NO, even though they supported the concept of a compulsory retirement savings scheme. Well, speaking for myself anyway. A huge turnout none the less.
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even though I'm disappointed with a loss
At least the Aussies and the poms can't taunt us with "the All Blacks always peak between World Cups".
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where he hid Hoffa's body.
Everyone knows where that is, it's in Shergar's stable. Right next to Lord Lucan.
In Area 51. With Elvis as the stableboy.
And they all go sailing on the Marie Celeste at weekends.
In the Bermuda triangle
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And did it seem strange to see the players wearing sponsorship on their chests from a sports-betting agency? Talk about a conflict of interest.
Also as bad as Ricky Ponting discussing Andrew Symonds bad drinking habits while wearing a VB cap.
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With regard to the suppressed evidence, we now have a situation where it is being speculated about, but was never tested under cross-examination. In my view, we now get a potentially distorted view the relevance and accuracy of this "evidence".
There is also some other evidence that seems to be under a permanent suppression order.
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Which they are clearly NOT.
I'm not sure either way -I was simply meaning that the contributions to date are not funded from borrowing - they were from the surplus.
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But if all the money for the contributions is borrowed
Which they are clearly NOT.
And, as Sacha points out, the interest on borrowings would be paid by current taxpayers, so it is user pays (in the broad sense of the word).
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George - if the Kirk scheme hadn't been stopped NZ would have some good sized super funds (like Canada and Australia ?) invested in perhaps companies like our telcos, banks... The billions wouldn't be spent, they'd be invested.
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In all this discussion about the effect of the contribution holiday aren't some of the main points of the fund being established in the first place being lost?
1- Effectively a user pays system - taxpayers contribute now for their super of the future
2- This one is really a side-effect, that is having a fund that can be used as investment here and overseas, so that as a country we actually own something.As proponents of user-pays, I would have thought that my first point would have been quite important to the Nact govt.
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It's also going to be a big job to widen the road to 3 lanes with all that raising of the ground level. I guess it just shows that the "tunnel can't be widened" argument wasn't really valid either.
How many houses are on the "future rail corridor"?