Posts by chris
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Paul Campbell,
Mind you in this case the judge calling them 13yr old girls is probably unfair to 13-yr old girls.
Especially when it’s being used as a euphemism for bitches. One is expected to understand that the sexism evident in this instance was not intended to insult or offend a woman.
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OnPoint: Budget 2013: Bringing Down the…, in reply to chris,
ETA for those in the dark, the $5000 that Ngatokotoru Puna’s family paid for him to leave the country is equivalent to a single annual late payment fee (excl interest). The interest accrued in the last year, if it had also been required, would be an additional $7400.
Puna accepted he would owe the IRD money until the day he died.
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The system seems to have edited me and not a moment too soon. I no longer have the energy, so we’ll just ignore the benefit systems' provisions for those unwilling to upskill in the tertiary sector, and stick with the claim that Ngatokotoru Puna’s issue was due to compound interest, ignoring other factors such as unequal eligibility for allowances (up to 60% of a loan), migration, late payment penalties, unemployment etc.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/270624/uni-students-numbers-drop
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OnPoint: Budget 2013: Bringing Down the…, in reply to Moz,
This one is all about the miracle of compound interest.
This is a
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OnPoint: Budget 2013: Bringing Down the…, in reply to chris,
ETA
It turns out that the arrested defaulter is the Cook Island Prime Minister’s nephew.
Steven Joyce:
"Our preference is that people just meet their obligations and that’s the important thing because you can’t forget that these people have had the benefit of loans from the tax payers to be educated.
Giving credit to The Honourable Mr Joyce he is absolutely right, without these loans, the greatest proportion of which is allocated for living costs for the majority of courses, many students wouldn’t have the benefits of accommodation, electricity and food while studying.
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OnPoint: Budget 2013: Bringing Down the…, in reply to izogi,
$40,000 when he left New Zealand, but has since blown out to around $130,000 due to interest.
Thanks Izogi, quite possibly not an altogether unusual scenario
As at April 30, 2013, there are more than 2,200 overseas-based student loan borrowers whose loan balances are over $100,000..
From your link:
He has been allowed to return home after his family paid $5000 to Inland Revenue – they also had to provide another $2000 to his lawyer.
Boom times loom for the legal profession. Not so boomy for families of defaulters.
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A Kiwi living overseas who refused to repay his student loan has been arrested at the New Zealand border.
This is the first time the sanction has been used. The man was detained on Monday while trying to leave the country, Inland Revenue confirmed.
He has lived overseas since 2004 and has a student debt of more than $20,000, the New Zealand Herald reported.
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Hard News: Kia kaha, Helen Kelly, in reply to chris,
*and foreign naval visits…
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Hard News: Kia kaha, Helen Kelly, in reply to Joe Boden,
If it’s not Judge Laura Norder (who counts McCoskrie among her supporters) who’s holding back reform, then it’s quite possibly Big Pharma, Big Booze, or Big Chemicals. Or a combination of both.
It’s Big Pharma.
And I can’t imagine many here would disagree with you there Joe and DeepRed, in fact I doubt many informed citizens could meaningfully disagree.
So based on the assumption that this is true; that our pharmaceutical industry or our alcohol industry or our tobacco industry etc and the legislation that regulates these industries, and the Government that implements the legislation already seems to be leveraged to such an extent as to be markedly compromised – to the detriment of measurable segments of the population, what can be done?
Preserving our sovereignty is a pillar that many TPPA opponents (for example) cite as a key reason for their opposition – amid meetings with foreign industry leaders, tax-payer funded royal meet and greets, foreign navel visits or extradition cases of dubious merit – that’s just what’s visible.
The idea of sovereignty has always been more of a comparative than a superlative in this British colony. Movements to preserve or protect this very variable variable – as the crux of informed debate make for feather-lite arguments - especially when presented within a definitional and historical vacuum as is so often the case.
More to the point – is the TPPA likely provide any light in the area of cannabis (de)regulation?
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Access: The Blue Inhaler, in reply to Russell Brown,
This reminds me of a friend who used to regularly puff through ventolin inhalers to get high on the salbutamol. Best not let Pharmac’s Pharmacology Therapeutics Advisory Committee know of this potential, they’ll probably try to have Ventolin banned…too.