Posts by mark taslov
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Chris Waugh,
To be clear about my response, I meant to say that my initial examples, Beijing's theme parks, are “pretty shit”, not the historical sites obviously, especially not the Summer Palace.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Amanda Wreckonwith,
So shit in rivers and methane is preferable to airline emissions. Do you have any ideas Amanda?
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Chris Waugh,
The problem is though that all those examples in Beijing are pretty shit, as I recall Happy Valley closes in the winter, there’s better down here and yet still not up to the standard of GoldCoast or L.A. Those 2 million people to NZ contribute $24b, those 5m to Australia contribute $94.8b, clearly the investment in world class attractions pays off. And for lack of much historical interest, the backpacker market only stretches so far, but yeah the urban parks and lakes of Beijing, it's a beautiful thing.
NZ’s small tourism operation is up with the best in the world but something like a massive Wetaworld, under Peter Jackson’s direction would be amazing. in say the Wairarapa, with a high speed train through the Rimutaka Ranges. But yeah, maybe I’ve been here too long amongst this “impossible is nothing” ;) and Chinese capital.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Chris Waugh,
is which economic baskets to redistribute our eggs into?
Tourism, New Zealand received 2,699,762 visitors in the year to Nov 2013, Australia received 5.9 million short-term visitors in the 2010-2011 fiscal year, why aren’t we capitalizing on that? Where is New Zealand’s (I know it’s crass but we’re after all only talking about money) Gold Coast. Where is our abusive tourist Minister in all this? Where’s Seaworld? Where’s Dreamworld? And most achingly where is our WB themed Movieworld? Wetaworld?
Some may say we’re not that kind of market, but you know how things are in Beijing; rollercoasters, Miniworld, Bajiao, Happy Valley. I’m not suggesting environmental destruction, quite the opposite, this kind of thing can be quite sustainable, it just more economic use of suburban land to capitalize on the industry.
That is if it’s money we want, and jobs….and just maybe, one day, less shit in rivers.
If we can afford $88b debt, then maybe we could afford an 88b dollar investment, yeah, nah. Personalities. Milk is what we do cos milk is who we are mate.fig leaf/____
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Amanda Wreckonwith,
I’m from the UK
Enough said. I appreciate your perspective, but I couldn’t rightly call people shits for not voting for that. We are but farmers of men, much less money in NZ. But no harm done hopefully, sorry if I got at you. Never underestimate Winston ;) Do however underestimate the accountability of our Government.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Amanda Wreckonwith,
Ok found it:
Treatment of Gains at Death: Capital gains on inheritance passed on after death will be rolled over to the heir, and not payable until the gain on the asset is realised.
So basically when a family member dies and leave something of their life’s work to their offspring, Labour wanted to slip in there and skim some off the top when they sell it. I can’t for the life of me understand the ethical position. It’s a death tax. Avoidable by selling your family home in that briefest moment before you issue your last breath. How could that not have been a winner? Anyone give a sh#t?
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Farmer Green,
jack and mark , if you are trying to tell me that politics are dirtier today than they have ever been, then I’ll just say that it has never been so easy to play that game. I don’t believe that anything has changed except for the means to play in the dirt.
Not at all, just giving you the rough gist of the book as it appeared to have passed you by there in Rangitkei. I agree, the song remains the same.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Amanda Wreckonwith,
OK, no worries, I think it's about then that I began to wonder exactly what the object was, I'll keep asking around.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Farmer Green,
I’m in the Rangitikei electorate
Say no more. ;)
Nothing to do with the Americans, Hager’s book Dirty politics was exposing attack politics, using bloggers, shillery, expediting OIA requests, publication of Labour website data with the assistance of someone in the PM’s office and general nastiness, the only tangible upshot so far has been Judith Collins losing her cabinet post.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Farmer Green,
Leave Nicky Hager out of this please Farmer Green, he is a valuable New Zealander.