Proposed tax cuts

[ManDownUnder]

$15!!!

I'm off to McDonalds for lunch! (and I'll do the same next week!!!)

Another Brownlee in the making...

[Finn]

$15? That's not even enough to start up smoking!

[jrandom]

You know, for $15, you can get quite a nice piece of cheese.

Unfortunately, I don't really pay tax these days, so I guess I won't be affording a nice piece of cheese any time soon.

[ManDownUnder]

You know, for $15, you can get quite a nice piece of cheese.

Unfortunately, I don't really pay tax these days, so I guess I won't be affording a nice piece of cheese any time soon.

I'll cut some cheese for you any time you feel up to it...

[ManDownUnder]

$15? That's not even enough to start up smoking!

Sure it is

Used tire = $5.00
Diesel = $1.00
Matches = $0.50

Assemble ignite and wait...

[Ocean1]

Flat tax system has a lot of benefits. Rather than copy & paste stuff, have a read of this article:

http://www.nzcpr.com/weekly105.htm

Have a read of Theodore Dalrymple's article

http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_4_oh_to_be.html

Succinct and accurate, both. Thanks.

Like many I can only hope that we've gone far enough down our respective fiscal and social paths to have made systemic change an utterly obvious necessity. The alternative is the rapid approach of anarchy, but I won’t be here to help out with it.

[MSTRS:Me]

Has everyone missed the obvious? Cullen is sitting on a huge reserve, from which he says he can afford to consider tax cuts. Excuse me?
If he can't/won't put it into essential services like roading, health etc, what good is a tax cut? He will still be sitting on that 1.5 billion. I suppose that 4 weeks out from next year's election, he will announce that every taxpayer in NZ will be getting a cheque for $750 PLUS the tax cut??

[ManDownUnder]

Cullen is sitting on a huge reserve, from which he says he can afford to consider tax cuts. Excuse me?

But he has an election to buy - that's 4 bill right there

[Swoop]

Tax cuts should be only the half of it, but I can't see this lot and their camp followers being brave enough to slash and obese and comfortable bureaucracy.

This dosen't read too well. Please see me after class...

Despite what the polls are suggesting, MMP will conspire against the prospect of a single-party government -- it's designed to do that.

Thank goodness. The old "two party - FPP" alternating dictatorship, was a complete joke.

[ManDownUnder]

Thank goodness. The old "two party - FPP" alternating dictatorship, was a complete joke.

And STV? I quite like that one meself...

[Coyote]

I think he was meaning in the way you were on the back foot in retort to his post...you didn't back your self...because you didn't appear to believe in yourself and what you believed...whether it be true or not...

for the record...finn is a pussy on a motorbike lmfao!!!

My final comment was the one that backed me up. I must've been on to something for him to lash out.

[Coyote]

I suppose that 4 weeks out from next year's election, he will announce that every taxpayer in NZ will be getting a cheque for $750 PLUS the tax cut??

Whee! Let's vote for them!


Is there anyone actually worth voting for?

[ManDownUnder]

Whee! Let's vote for them!


Is there anyone actually worth voting for?

yes... me.

less money for prisons, more for cops, less money for dole and DPB, more on health and education.

The current system is total and utter SHIT

[Dilligaf]

I don't think they have a sh1t show of getting the same productivity out of Thailand's little brown people, as they do out of South Auckland's big brown people.
.

Relative to most OECD countries, the level of labour productivity in New Zealand is low and, when measured as GDP per worker, the historic growth performance has also been relatively poor. The apparently poor performance is a key concern for policymakers and has attracted much research attention. The focus has been to understand why performance has not been better, given that cross-country indicators of New Zealand's economic environment broadly suggest New Zealand should be amongst the highest performers, not a laggard.
(Quoted from Reserve Bank)

Gotta say MisterD, after living in both countries, it'd be fairly close.
Let's just say that the message "Work harder, millions on welfare depend on you" hasn't quite filtered through....



EXPENSIVE TASTE: The Government's new BMW limos, costing about $170,000 each, fail to meet their own emission standards despite being described as environmentally friendly.



Internal Affairs announced yesterday that it will buy 34 BMW saloons - each retailing for about $170,000 - to replace the fleet of Ford Fairlanes and Holden Statesmans.

Though the chauffeur-driven BMWs are described as environmentally friendly, they do not meet the emissions targets.

The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategy issued in October sets efficiency targets of 6.5 litres per 100 kilometres travelled. The BMW 730Ld uses 8.01 litres.

"[The fuel efficiency] is way worse than the average they are going to impose on the rest of New Zealand," Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4328965a10.html


Ah dontcha just love this country run by some of the world's greatest thinkers....

[Coyote]

yes... me.

less money for prisons, more for cops, less money for dole and DPB, more on health and education.

The current system is total and utter SHIT

Got a name for your party then?

Why less money for prisons, but more for cops? I wouldn't imagine the police would be too keen on prisons getting less, it's more work for them when those prisoners they can't fit into a cell are released instead.

I'm not too sure about the dole. My family went through rough times, my Dad was made redundant, the government cut out giving money to struggling families when I was born and my mum was paying the government back 120% of her wages since of some flaw in the system. Money for the dole shouldn't be cut, instead they should run the system better and make sure they use the money right which will end up in them spending less anyway. And they should search the houses of long term dole users for hydrophonic equipment.