Posts by Christopher Dempsey
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Yes, I remember reading Keith’s post Sacha. Looking at the above statement there are different interpretations to Keith’s conclusion. As Russell said about me, just because Keith sees it one way does not make it true, it is just his opinion that it is fair that the top 3% of income earners pay 26% of the income tax base.
I'm no economist (nor should anyone be so), but I think the numbers quoted mislead.
It's not that the top 1% pay 15% of the tax take, and 3% pay 26%, it's actually that out of all the money earned by everyone, the top 1% earn say 40% of that money, and the next 3% earn say another 35% of that money (which is a definition of being rich). Contributing only 15% of that income towards the total tax take from that 40% of the total income paid to 1% of the taxpaying population is frankly criminal.
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to Russell Brown,
GREAT!! Thanks! Will email you.
Oh cool... I'm stoked!
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to Russell Brown,
And I'm reminded that was the year of the BIG coat...
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Sacha,
Athfeild being involved in any kind of reconstruction is a bad idea. Architects understand individual buildings extremely well. Not so a collection of buildings and even lesser so a city.
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to Mike Hollywood,
ahh, the Blue Oyster in Edinburgh. Experienced one Boxing Day night in early 90s. Lots of mirrors and very rocco.
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Memory is a slippery beast.
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to Mike Hollywood,
Ahhh, thanks!! Yes. Sorry. Got mixed up with Box in High St.
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to nothingelseon,
I remember it being the Box, but I could be mistaken. It was in a building on Garrett St, now since demolished (I think). You went down a short flight of stairs. It was a large rectangular room and the walls were white...
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to nzlemming,
This Mark Harris was a lovely wee gem. And really really liked his music. One memorable one involved us wiring up a bank of televisions on either side of the stage (Mark was a techie of sorts), through which was played various electronic art videos, all set to the sounds Mark played that night - mostly Acid, mixed with some house. I remember hoping that the tape used to 'stich' the televisions together were going to last the night (they did).
Gay Community Dances were the best... we created our own magic... it was a shame they folded, but inevitable.
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to Mike Hollywood,
The skies were wonderful - constantly changing thanks to that wind... and the sunset colours were indeed lovely, caught on the clouds, while in the winter chill the distant Tararua ranges were dusted with snow... I'm reminded of that wonderful writers walk with the one on the Sky to Sea overbridge telling us Wellington is the world HQ of the verb. Lovely.