GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Joyce’s disgraceful dirty politics
The dirty politics tactics of Steven Joyce who has lied about Labour’s budget is a disgrace to the credibility of the Finance Minister, the National Party and to the entire country.
Author: The Daily Blog
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 9th September 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Tales From A Possible Future: Expanding The Tax Working Group
THE FIRST SIGN that Jacinda Ardern’s would be a very different sort of Labour Government came early.
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CPAG Livestream Beyond Social Investment 2017
‘Social Investment’ is a buzzword that is guiding the current National Government’s social policy decisions. What does it mean? What are the implications of increased ‘target efficiency’?
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – Will US vs China/Russia end in WW3?
The Pentagon now agrees with anti-imperialists that the US is in decline and faces the rise of Russia and China. They term this the “loss of US primacy” or global hegemony, and want the US military to gear up to take on Russia and China.
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5 Candidates For The Seat Of Limerick
The Nats most magnificent troll
Said: “I’ve just found a fiscal black hole
so impossibly big
that Grant cannot dig
Labour out before the next poll!”
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday 8th September 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Trust and Taxes: How National Intends To Derail The “Jacinda Train”
If they can convince the waverers; the voters on the point of climbing aboard the “Jacinda Train”; that Labour’s numbers just don’t add up. If they can make them feel that if they’re not very careful, then a bunch of so-called “experts” are going to advise Labour to tax their land, their batch, their business, their petrol, their water, their financial transactions, and even their inheritance. If they can inflame suspicion and build mistrust, then – dammit – they just might win.
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Observations on the 2017 Election campaign thus far… (wha)
The 2017 Pre-Election Fiscal Update (PREFU) revealed that the Nats had achieved a respectable $3.7 billion surplus – contrasting sharply with the $1.6 billion forecasted surplus in the May 2017 Budget. How did National achieve such a remarkable feat, despite reduced revenue from tax cuts in 2009 and 2010 and the re-build after the Christchurch and Kaikoura earthquakes?. One doesn’t have to search far to find one possible answer where cuts were made to achieve their much-vaunted surplus;
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Time to get rid of married/single distinctions
Why do we have big differences between rates of NZ Super? Why does a single sharing pensioner get $ 60 a week more than if their relationship is defined to be in the nature of marriage?
Why does a superannuitant living alone get $90 a week more than a married person?