Posts by Sacha
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By all the lavatory talk, perhaps?
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I actually agree, Don. Do you know if any ideas that would benefit knowledge industries like software were discussed yesterday?
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And Fran O'Sullivan manages to distort yesterday's gathering into a cry for easier foreign investment, conveniently ignoring the impact of that on our current indebtedness. To a woman with a hammer, I guess..
Business participants at the summit were clear that Key must keep his Government focused on what really matters: Ensuring New Zealand comes out of this tough period with policy settings that result in the economy being more internationally competitive - not the reverse. This means corporate tax rates that incentivise investment to come here rather than chase it away...
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You mean making shit up and still looking bad.
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Don, I can see the logic for certain businesses in not having to lay off valuable staff now just because you can't afford to keep them working until markets pick up in "a couple of years". Probably not your industry, and the underlying assumption is false without further strong action.
Taxpayers are being asked to take on some of the risk, in exchange for businesses not laying workers off right away. The Act party and the dryer Nats must be spitting.
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Was a buzz hearing more about Bob.
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DeepRed, I'm genuinely interested to hear if anything about innovation was discussed. I don't believe senior pollies or business leaders are all stupid or evil, so they must have some thoughts beyond lining the pockets of the obvious suspects.
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And Liam Dann cynically dissects the rugby metaphor.
But in general yesterday's results looked more like a throw the ball to Jonah and yell:"run Jonah, run" approach to saving the economy than any kind of rolling maul as called for by Key.
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Playing to type - tough chickenhawks.
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John Armstrong has a thoughtful story about those bureaucrats.
It looks like much of this change will take place below the radar. The less information available to opponents to build a broad picture of what is going on, the easier it will be to force change. Programmes will end and staff will be shifted or sacked without fanfare.
...National is promising there will be no "slash and burn"approach. Partly, that is out of self-interest. The indiscriminate short-term slashing of departmental budgets on some fixed percentage basis is too blunt an instrument and only ends up backfiring on the Government as bureaucrats cut services in response.
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