GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – There is a better way
Today’s generation of young adults are the first generation in recent history who will be substantially worse off than their parents .
Author: The Daily Blog
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GUEST BLOG: Aroha Mead – what free trade means to Aotearoa
On the panel on a sustainable world at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand, Aroha Mead, from Ngāti Awa and Ngāti Porou, reminded us what it means to live in Aotearoa.
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GUEST BLOG: Geoff Simmons – The Tax Tweaking Group
If we care about poverty, the best a Capital Gains Tax does is raise a bit of revenue for the government to spend. We have to hope like hell that money gets spent on the real problems facing the country like child poverty, rather than middle class welfare like free tertiary education.
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How Big Is Your Army?
POLICE NUMBERS just topped 13,000. Forty years ago there were fewer than half that number – considerably fewer. Astonishingly, we now have almost as many cops as we do soldiers. At last count the New Zealand Defence Force numbered 14,921. Put those numbers together and the state’s coercive potential turns out to be not far shy of 30,000 highly-trained and fearsomely-equipped men and women. Those who allow expressions like “revolution” and “class war” to trip so merrily off their tongues should be required to explain where their 30,000 highly-trained and fearsomely-equipped men and women are currently hiding – just waiting for the word.
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Political Caption Competition
KING’S COLLEGE TUCK SHOP MENU:
MAINS:
Steamed Rhinos in white wine – $120
Whole grilled Gorilla with jerk gravy – $175
Blue Whale Sushi – $230DESSERT: Eton Mess taken from the mouths of working class children – $45
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 26th February 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Simon Bridges – out of touch with Kiwi Battlers
As property investors/speculators; assorted financiers; and their political-wing, the National Party, ramp up their opposition to a capital gains tax to a stridency approaching hysteria, current party leader, Simon Bridges, has used the mainstream media to push his highly propagandised (and highly emotive and misleading) messages;
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Māori Climate Commissioner: “National’s Environment Discussion Document thinks it can buy it’s way out of climate change consequences”
Boutique travel parks in our national parks, electric car subsidies, litter campaigns, tech fixes we are no where close to fixing, gene editing pest controls and proclaiming our natural reserves are ‘birth rights’ are all very well and good, but they don’t set out a radical enough plan to combat climate change”.
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Malcolm Evans – Biting the bullet on CGT
Malcolm Evans – Biting the bullet on CGT
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GUEST BLOG: Donna Awatere Huata – ‘Greedy’ Boomers obliged to help fight climate change
Baby Boomers were lucky enough to live under Governments who rebuilt their societies post World War Two with the lesson of what happened if citizens weren’t protected from the sharp boom and busts of capitalism foremost in their minds. Those Governments inoculated their citizens from Fascism and Communism with a Democratic Welfare State and investment into their hopes and aspirations.