Posts by Bart Janssen
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So if I understand your numbers you are saying that about $15b of Joyce's numbers are bollocks.
That means Labour are about 7.5b off the mark and unlikely to be able to pay off any debt from these tax changes.
It is disturbing how variable such important financial predictions are, almost like folks are mostly guessing.
But it does seem as though Labour's proposal means we wouldn't need to sell our electricity companies. Given the unmitigated disaster seen in the US as a result of allowing private companies to own electricity supply that has to be worthwhile.
And who knows, all the commentators could be right, the CGT numbers could actually be conservative and we might see more tax revenue from them than estimated. That would leave money to pay off some of the debt National has left us with after a mere 3 years.
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Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to recordari,
She probably needs some help injecting some smut into to story
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Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
...near Governors Bay right?
I see a product placement deal in the making ...
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Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to Emma Hart,
Oi! We would never so sully the brilliance of our beautiful, beautiful back line. A barrel of Cheekbone Sculpt, maybe.
Just checking to see if you were watching - how about moisturizing facial scrub :P
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Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to wendyf,
One sinks
And all aboard are lost to the deeps save one, clinging desperately to a barrel filled with anabolic steroids destined for the red and blacks, he is washed ashore and found by a chocolatier out for her midnight walk along rocks.
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Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to wendyf,
There should be five ships.
That pass each other in the night?
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be tough with the insurance companies
The problem is that philosophically Brownlee and the National party don't believe that it is appropriate to "be tough with" a big business.
Big Businesses are the very definition of what they believe is the right way to do things. Hard nosed bargaining that screws over ordinary folk is to be admired. It is the ordinary folks own fault for not having better lawyers. It is that very shark like behaviour that they believe is of benefit to New Zealand in the long run.
Similarly the property developers are the kind of people they believe are good for the New Zealand economy and so hindering them in any way is bad for New Zealand. Self interested go-getters are good.
It's very hard to argue with such an irrational belief structure, However, they do admire good lawyering.
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Tamsin knew she was to blame, it was her geological love child that had undermined St Richie's virility. How could she prove to him that he could be as hard as the father of her child? She was wrong of course, St Ritchie was shaken by her revelations but he was metrosexual enough to deal with it. No, his weakness had deeper roots than that.
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Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to Hilary Stace,
#pastory?
My friends used to bake these, high in fibre.
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Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to Megan Wegan,
Boom-tish.
There's an app for that.