The Daily Blog Open Mic – 16th October 2024
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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“Had the GST exemptions in those three countries been applied to New Zealand in a recent study by Australian researchers, who compared a basket of over 40 products at each country’s two main supermarket brands, the total price of the Pak’nSave basket would have been lower than Australia’s and lower than Ireland’s, and less than 10 percent more than the UK’s.”
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/530673/don-t-forget-gst-when-comparing-nz-prices-to-overseas-supermarket-boss
Note: Foodstuffs is not calling for the removal of GST from food in New Zealand
Beyond evil.
https://www.thepress.co.nz/business/350447490/government-flip-burden-proof-encourage-overseas-investment
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/530988/call-for-consistency-on-berm-gardens-enforcement
If we really are a democracy we should be able to get rid of the heavies both local and central government, that sit on our backs with legs in a scissor grip holding us back.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/530964/labour-s-barbara-edmonds-to-national-why-are-you-so-afraid-of-a-capital-gains-tax
….30′ with Guyon Espiner Labour’s Barbara Edmonds gives the clearest indication yet of how a reset Labour government would tackle the big economic challenges, and defends the “good things that happened” because of Rogernomics.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/530961/acc-announces-7-point-2-billion-deficit
How can that be? How much is being paid out of capital to buy new tech machinery to replace people, how much to consultants? I can’t bear to read in detail and peer around the blocking portals of chicanery that I feel likely to be in large chunks.
How is the paperwork going at the intersection of private providers, insurance etc and the government milch cow? That’s where much money flows in the USA and our people’s tongues are hanging out for the same, at least the dirty big dogs pushing for PPPs.