Posts by DexterX
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I never considered myself a cat person so here goes
The story - http://dexterx.livejournal.com/504340.html
More pics to follow.
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Two songs I hate as much as anything I have ever hated are Led Zep - Heart Breaker and Deep Purple - Highway Star - they are torturous – but why torture yourself when you can enjoy this piece of unbridled magnificence – better than a zero budget and making more sense:
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In essence the budget shows that this government is not serious about anything.
http://www.treasury.govt.nz/budgetDownsixing MFat to meet low expectations:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/6979384/NZ-goods-exports-continue-to-decline -
Hard News: Press Play > Budget, in reply to TracyMac,
but
That is not it.
Consider the last three years - the increase of GST, the tax cuts to the well off, have had a negative effect and actually contributed IMO to shrinking the economy and the ability to provide employment, particularly to younger people.
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Hard News: Press Play > Budget, in reply to Jeremy Eade,
The problems are behavioural and cognitive or a lack of.
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Hard News: Press Play > Budget, in reply to Jeremy Eade,
It is not economists that are needed.
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The emphasis on increasing rates of taxation or introducing new taxes is flawed and is not a solution - the tax take needs to increase as a result of an expanding economy.
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Hard News: Press Play > Budget, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Probably the same people who speculate on the property money-go-roundt
I don't think so - the assumption is wrong along the similar line of a CGT moving investment from ppty to "export/growth ventures".
I have more faith in benevolent Aliens landing in Wellington and providing us with futuristic technology that will save us all.
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Hard News: Press Play > Budget, in reply to Matthew Hooton,
Net debt has gone from about -$5b in 2008 and will reach $71b in 2016,
That is not good.
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CGT not a solution - better management of the economy is the answer.
