Posts by BenWilson
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I'd just like to note, for the record, early in the thread, that the considerable family fortune I will most likely inherit a piece of is all in investment property. I could lose a lot from this tax. But I still think it's a good idea.
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Hard News: A Capital Idea?, in reply to recordari,
And what about inflation?
If we follow the Ozzie model, it will be inflation adjusted. So buy-and-holders don't pay much CGT. It really targets trading.
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Hard News: A Capital Idea?, in reply to Nick Kearney,
But never mind, I’m sure the government can buy a restaurant or 100 with the extra $15k.
Or it can balance the books. That would be good for the economy.
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Here, although CGT starts a bit further down, it's a long thread so I suggest a bisection search.
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while I'd prefer the "family home" (however that gets defined) not be excluded from a CGT I get how that would be politically impossible, even if I don't understand the policy rationale.
I guess they're targeting investment property. It is also exactly how it's done in Oz.
Instead she gushes 90-95% utter tosh, while absolutely nailing it for a small minority of the time. What's up with that?
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day?
Key keeps talking about moving salaries to be the same as Oz - to do that we need actual local investment (not investment from the Oz retirement system)
Oz has CGT and Super. I think we should too. Super makes for a massive pool of local reinvestment. CGT discourages property speculation, whilst actually encouraging property investment, in the more productive way - buy and hold, and develop.
We've had quite a good discussion on CGT here before, will find the thread soon. DexterX was particularly outspoken against it and had much more cogent points than some crazies out there, I hope he comes back here for it. -
Don't front loaders also give you another usable surface? Laundries can be small spaces.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to recordari,
Don't you wear gloves?
If I'm being finicky, I'll pick them up with a teatowel, but usually I just wash my hands first. I've lost my taste for gloves, unless doing a large number by hand. I found that my skin was actually worse from the extensive washing I had to do on them to get the smell of glove-sweat off, and the fungi that seem to accumulate rapidly in gloves, than from just washing the dishes with bare hands. After the pre-rinse, there's no need for soaking and hard scrubbing anyway, so the hot water doesn't really touch my hands, and we all know the virtues of Palmolive anyway!
shouldn't you be laying down some rules and asserting yourself with this dishwasher?
I like my dishwasher to be happy in its work. It does have the option to take the basket covers off (useful if anything gets stuck in there), but I thought I'd do it the dishwasher's way for a bit, just to see if it worked better, and it seems to. It is Italian, so sometimes it slacks off and doesn't dry the dishes, forcing me to pick up the teatowel (and I'm a little ashamed to say that my teatowel cracking has developed pinpoint precision), but it usually came down to feeding it insufficient and inferior Rinse Aid. Also, it's mojo is cramped by the huge fridge directly opposite, but it seemed to perk up when I put a sexy little coffee machine on top of it. I hear it thumping in the night sometimes, but I figure if it's going to get all funky with a totally different appliance, that's its business, and it can pick its own time to come out.
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My dishwasher forces me to put all cutlery handle-down. It has advantages. No clumping, more exposure to the spray, more visibility for counting (saving time scouring the house), and sharp knives have to be done by hand and put away (which typically means they are available, handy since they are the most used item in the drawer). There's only one downside I can see, that you will touch the eating surfaces during unloading.
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bmk, I totally agree on all counts.
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Legal Beagle: Referendum Fact Check #2:…, in reply to uroskin,
I'm not entirely sure that's full of win (forcing Muslims and Jews to eat non-Halal or non-Kosher food isn't automatically good), but it does seem like a good outcome in some ways. Even animals get representation in PR.
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