The Daily Blog Open Mic – 4th April 2023
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Weekend dumb
Bridges: “[Nash] putting [Cabinet leaks] in writing is most stupid thing I’ve seen”.
Simon’s insight into the machinations of Parliament obfuscation is revealing.
Mahuta: “NATO is a logical fit for NZ”.
It’s an obsolete group of foaming militants in the North Atlantic Nanaia; we are a diplomatic and peaceful region in the South Pacific. Stoltenberg has said “Giving more weapons to Ukraine is the fastest way to peace”.
Mahuta: “I am concerned about the prospect of China supplying lethal aid to Russia”.
This is a joke right?
Hipkins: “Now that Ardern has left the building hopefully the fringe groups can stop being mean to her”.
No Chris, just because someone quits doesn’t mean their time in office is forgotten or that history itself is erased.
Hipkins: “Get your third, fourth, fifth Covid booster. Do it now”.
Hey Chris, after the last revelation on cabinet information breaches your government has lost the trust of the people. To now flick the switch to a new topic and start impersonating a doctor, doling out information on medical procedures and peddling products is not only an insult, it is disturbing.
I think that there would be a beneficent bunch of prezzies to exclaim over for PM Chris if he looked at the Tax Working Groups suggestions. Talking about adjusting tax to benefit the broad economy and the peeps would excite the interest of Gnat diehards.
(Note: their banner slogan: ‘Nāu te rourou, Nāku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi’
‘With your contribution and mine, the people will prosper’)
It could be a good pre-Christmas gift from Santa.
https://taxworkinggroup.govt.nz/resources/future-tax-final-report.html
Thursday, 21 February 2019
Version note:
Issued by the Tax Working Group
Vol I: ISBN: 978-1-98-858003-6 (Online)
Vol II: ISBN: 978-1-98-858004-3 (Online)
HTML versions are available:
Future of Tax: Final Report Volume I – Recommendations
Future of Tax: Final Report Volume II – Design Details of the Proposed Extension of Capital Gains Taxation
Copyright: © Crown Copyright, Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
https://taxworkinggroup.govt.nz/
This site is being decommissioned
25 February 2020
The Tax Working Group website is being decommissioned. Website materials are being migrated to Inland Revenue.
17 April 2019
The Government has now responded to the Tax Working Group’s recommendations. The Government’s response is available here Government responds to Tax Working Group report.
Tax Working Group final report
Deloitte
https://www2.deloitte.com › nz › pages › tax › articles
The final Tax Working Group report provides detail as to how a capital gains tax could be designed, and also how any revenue gained could be spent.
Tax working group: summary of recommendations
Grant Thornton New Zealand
https://www.grantthornton.co.nz › insights › tax-worki…
21/02/2019 — The Group supports Inland Revenue’s efforts to increase the compliance of the self-employed. They also recommend expanding the use of …
How NZ Tax Working Group Recommendations Differs …
Austaxpolicy
https://www.austaxpolicy.com › how-nz-tax-working-…
16/03/2020 — The Tax Working Group point out the importance that taxpayers have a perceived sense of fairness in relation to the tax system to
The Future of Tax in New Zealand—Tax Working Group …
Victoria University of Wellington
https://www.wgtn.ac.nz › cagtr › events › past-events
The Future of Tax in New Zealand—Tax Working Group 2018 Public Symposium ·-
The Tax Policy Scholarship Charitable Trust and CAGTR held a symposium in 2018 on the major tax reform options under consideration at the time.
Should New Zealand tax capital gains?
Would it make the system fairer and what …
Tax Working Group scope and objectives
https://www.wgtn.ac.nz › cagtr › events › past-events
The work of the Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Tax Working Group aims to build on the tax conference, ‘New Zealand Tax Reform—where to …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Working_Group
You (one) really does have to wonder about the relationship between so-called intelligent human beings, and the clueless.
Once again – Stuey the gNash aside – Kiri at Dunlop’s RNZ farewell.
Fuck me with a feather duster. Excuse me for thinking there are some really DUMB fucks masquerading as politicians. Especially those trading on their rootings.
Cargo cultism is alive and well, and apparently not yet sufficient to satisfy the self appointed elites.
Labour can’t ever get the time to be vaguely progressive (even IF it wanted to) while there are all these identarian side issues now taking up all its time.
Hopefully Kiri will now be on notice..
Fuck you the gNash, and fuck you the Allen and all who sail in you. Take some time out and see which way your egos want to blow. DUMB or what!
Something we can do – stick a flag up for the brave outspoken in a real dangerous spot.
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2023/04/02/support-the-refusers/
Support the brave opposing the hegemony in Israel. All you NZ people concerned about human rights – your chance to bravely go where you have never been before, except in your heads and mouths. (I haven’t yet either but I see only 2 replies to this post. Surely we people of integrity in reasonable safety can do better than that.)
Why can’t it be slimmed down, run on a not-for-profit basis for some years. Why can’t fish be sold profitably? It has to be treated like a business though, things accounted for, run efficiently.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/487326/iwi-owned-takitimu-seafoods-announces-closure
This sounds as if it shines a light through a fog of combative BS. (Mixed metaphors?)
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2304/S00008/aukus-exists-to-manage-the-risks-created-by-its-existence.htm
“NATO exists to manage the risks created by its existence,” Professor Richard Sakwa once wrote in an attempt to articulate the absurdity of the military alliance’s provocative nature on the world stage. At some point Australians must wake up to the fact that this is equally true of AUKUS: we’re told the military alliance exists for our protection, but its very existence makes us less safe….
Bank profits are up, unemployment is up, mortgage defaults are up, wage inflation is down.
It’s working!
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/300846732/economists-message-to-reserve-bank-dont-keep-hiking-until-something-breaks
The Reserve Bank needs to realise that its interest rate rises have already worked,…..
“….a kick in the guts to households struggling with the cost of living crisis, rising interest rates and house prices declining. There’s a lot going on for businesses and households to contend with.”
He said the bank could not keep “blindly lifting interest rates”.
“Something will break and it will become a much deeper recession.”
….He said a recent run of job losses, including at Sky TV and The Warehouse, were a product of the Reserve Bank’s actions. “They are engineering a recession, in their words.”