Posts by Sacha
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It's going to be painfully obvious at every subsequent budget
Especially with expert fisking like this - thanks, Keith. Don't know if you've also seen The Standard's simple graph of average hourly wage rates based on the Budget projections. Voters just might notice that trend in their wallets.
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Fiscal rogering would seem to be the order of te day.
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Double entry accounting?
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fish and loaf. :)
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Maybe David Farrier would wear it - seems like a chap who will give anything a go.
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That is a lie
It would certainly seem so, coming from an international finance expert as it did.
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Yep, it's all about you.
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Cheers.
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Well we have one of the right ingredients. :)
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I believe this conversation has largely been about what's legal rather than what's moral. Innocence and guilt do not mean the same things in both those worlds.
There's a difference between doing something wrong and being convicted of a crime. I suspect most New Zealanders would readily call the convict a criminal, but it seems remarkably far-fetched to claim that any parent who smacks their children every now and then is going to feel all criminalised because they no longer have a special legal defense if they happen to whack their kid hard enough to end up in court.
It's simpler than understanding the motivation of those who obsessively campaign against the law change as if they've lost something really important. Their fragile sense of masculinity must have departed a long time before Sue Bradford had anything to do with it.
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