Posts by giovanni tiso
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Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to Hilary Stace,
This could turn into a feminist tract examining society’s dichotomous expectations for women to be either manatee or witch.
If it does, I'm going to have to come to Auckland.
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Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I vote for this paragraph unaltered
It beats "It was a dark and stormy night" hands down.
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Cracker: Another Capital Idea..., in reply to BenWilson,
Isn’t that a key sign of well-offness?
And fucking how.
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Hard News: A Capital Idea?, in reply to DexterX,
The expectation that a CGT will encourage investment innovation in the export sector is ill founded – it really is BS..
It's not about that. It's about having a fairer taxation system. Everything else is a bonus.
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Cracker: Another Capital Idea..., in reply to Rik,
Another minor point – someone was talking about the good ole days when tax rates were a lot higher for the high income earners – this was well before GST came along so surely this would need to be taken into account as well? It’s not like tax rates were just dropped on their own.
Of course – we got rid of higher levels of taxation for high income earners so we could shift the burden onto the people who earn less. A quarter of a century later, the supposed benefits of this have yet to materialise in the real world. Except for rich people.
But you make a convincing argument. Given that the experiment has so obviously failed, I’m all for reintroducing the progressive brackets and abolishing the regressive GST.
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Hard News: A nation bullied, in reply to Stephen Judd,
Too true.
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As well as showing that we're not all rugby and dairy, we appear intent on showing that there is no homelessness in New Zealand.
The homeless of central Auckland will be cared for by security officers charged with ensuring their "safety and amenity" for the duration of the tournament. How charming.
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Cracker: Another Capital Idea..., in reply to Rik,
I know plenty of people who earn +/- $100k and they are by no means rich or earning shit loads. With a mortgage and a couple of kids you need to be pretty good at budgeting to make ends meet
These people can't be living in the same country in which I live. Either that, or feel free to send them to me for budgeting advice.
I'd start with cutting down on the Beluga. I know, it's rough.
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Cracker: Another Capital Idea..., in reply to BenWilson,
I'm not convinced investment bankers aren't worth the money they earn.
They could work for free and still owe us money.
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Field Theory: 65 bottles of beer on the wall..., in reply to Russell Brown,
But even those which would always have happened have been brought into the same timeframe and given an extra boost.
Or be totally eclipsed.
offer a sense of occasion and affirm that there is more to New Zealand than rugby and dairy.
Dude: we have The Hobbit.
In my dreams, rugby fanatics the world over flock to the country and fall madly in love with Foxton. Then I wake up.