Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to 3410,
How is that “both ways”, Craig? You’ve responded to “very wealthy people avoiding taxes” with some more very wealthy people avoiding taxes.
Nope, I just think folks of whatever political complexion should be very careful about canonizing hypocrites – and that’s exactly what Bill Gates is, in my opinion – because I find it hard to believe that anything Gates would pay in a “millionaire tax” wouldn't be far exceeded by his profits from corporate tax cheating.
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OnPoint: PREFU 2011: "What credit downgrade?", in reply to Sacha,
though that tag still seems to be framing some coverage.
Oh, for fuck’s sake… There are some sections of the media who need to asked whether Michael Ashcroft fucked their girlfriends, skipped out on a bar tab or laughed at their weiners while sharing a urinal. Otherwise, I can’t really see the news value. Isn't there a general election four weeks from Saturday or some such trivial nonsense?
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to Russell Brown,
Her airy declaration that South Africans like it here because it’s like apartheid just made it worse.
Ah, yes. Dismiss this as anecdata, but I know one elderly white South African woman whose membership in the Black Sash routinely attracted threats of rape, physical assault and harm to her children.
So, big ups Margaret – you’ve managed to demean a woman whose flaxroots non-violent opposition to apartheid should have your respect not your sneering, privileged condescension.
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We hear very wealthy people moaning about and avoiding taxes
That works both ways, Euan. Folks like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates have become the fat cats it’s OK for the OccupyEkatahuna set to like, but I think it’s fair to point out that any income from a so-called “millionaire tax” would pale into insignificance beside outfits like Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway just paying their fucking taxes. But don’t ask Saint Bill about Microsoft’s aggressive (and spectacularly successful) tax avoidance on his watch or Buffet when Berkshire Hathaway will get around paying it’s outstanding debt to the IRS.
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OnPoint: PREFU 2011: "What credit downgrade?", in reply to Sacha,
hold these clowns accountable for the very deliberate decisions they’ve made over the last few years –
Would this be the “secret agenda” that only seems to be secret to the clowns who paid ACT’s former ad shop to come up with genius lines for Phil Goff like “vote National and kiss your ass-sets goodbye”? (Nothing screams "we're ready for Government" like too-lame-for-a-Tui-billboard bum puns. Ian D. could do better in a coma.)
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OnPoint: PREFU 2011: "What credit downgrade?", in reply to Stewart,
Craig, you know nothing about my circumstances so any remark about ‘politics of envy’ is pure crap and speculation
Stuart. Take those rage goggles off and re-read what I said. You might also want to take your own bloody advice because 1) you've done sweet F.A. to convince me to stop voting National and 2) you picked a really bad year to patronize me as some twatcock whose only purpose in life is the fuck the poor. Epically bad timing.
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OnPoint: PREFU 2011: "What credit downgrade?", in reply to Stewart,
Craig, you know nothing about my circumstances so any remark about ‘politics of envy’ is pure crap and speculation
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OnPoint: PREFU 2011: "What credit downgrade?", in reply to Stewart,
Is there some hot key where you can just insert political cant tailored to how you dress your ideological dick? I believe this is the point where I should respond with fatuous cant about how you're just engaged in the "politics of envy" but frankly can't be arsed.
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OnPoint: PREFU 2011: "What credit downgrade?", in reply to David Cormack,
The vitriol towards the National Government in this thread is palpable…surely we don’t believe that they intentionally want to destroy NZ’s economy? Whether or not you agree with their policies on anything, they must genuinely believe what they are doing is right for the country.
Absent the majestic plural, I believe the answer to your questions is “yes’ and “no”. Meanwhile, over on Kiwibog et. al,, I'm sure the Liarbore Dykeocracy's cunning plot to make North Korea look like Gault's Gulch is being exposed as we speak...
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to Russell Brown,
To be fair, Labour did benefit from the growth driven by the housing boom – which was where much of the private debt got racked up. But it was individuals who did the borrowing.
Um, yes... and would it be fair to suggest that it's possibly not such a bad thing if this Christmas folks are going to be a lot less willing to load unsustainable debt on their credit cards? Of course, it's going to suck dick for the retail sector but still...
And I think a Tobin/FT tax has merit, but what it needs is backing from the G8/G20.
Probably not going to happen when the GOP get everything they want (including billions in tax cuts), and still act like Mean Daddy Obama has put a lump of coal in their Christmas stockings.
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