Rather than punish the user, go after the bloody industry. Consistently raising the price so the end user is forced to get more and more desperate to feed their addiction is not a solution. Create a vice tax that goes on the profit margin of the tobacco company. Put the pressure on the corporation to pay more of their profits rather than endlessly punish the end user.
Winston will hope this inquiry wraps up quickly before Simon realises the talkback gold he’s been gifted.
What was interesting about Bridges wasn’t him admitting our judicial system is corrupt or that there are no actual means to challenge cases that are fundamentally miscarriages of justice, oh no, Bridges honed in on the witch hunt element.
The new Government still haven’t managed to get control over the levers of power and it leaves the question open, is the new Government running this country or are right wing Wellington bureaucrats still running NZ?
New Zealander’s are confusingly saying that they want to smoke cannabis, use it for medicine, but don’t want a regulated market that stops organised crime from dominating the industry and removes all the actual taxation revenue from Government coffers.
When someone hands out leaflets which say “Allah is a gay god” and “Allah is transgender” then this is not an issue of free speech. This is part of a calculated campaign to incite religious hatred.
Ole Bomber who runs this site lost his toys the other day over Kate Hawkesby’s discourse of contempt around prisoners. Or, as he so poetically put it, the “boorish bruise of the very barbarism they (people like her) claim to recoil from”.
Matthew Hooton (19th July, NZ Herald) trots out the tired old John Key scarecrow of ‘Communism by stealth’ to debunk Working for Families (WFF). Hooton even wants to blame WFF for the nurses’ strike and low productivity.
Phil Goff was right to ban these crypto-fascsists from a publicly funded venue, but his need to appeal to liberal Auckland at a time when his Leadership as Mayor was eroding him support from the Left threw a gas bomb on this and allowed these Hate Merchants to play the free speech martyrs.
…we can not in good conscience allow a country with a two tiered system based on race to continue to remain on NZ soil in any offical capacity.