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PS. Chris Trotter pointed out the following in one of his more reasonable posts on stuff.co.nz:
By cutting personal income tax? Give me a break! You could abolish income tax altogether and we'd still be paid less than the Aussies.
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Well, it's kind of breaking up with itself at the moment. The Flemish have decided they don't like the Francophone Belgians, and it's looking more and more like there won't be a Belgium to move to in the next few years.
The piece of land between France, Germany and the Netherlands will still be there. It might just be two or three different countries. They'll still have the same currency, open borders and free movement of people.
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Wave goodbye to
Belgium
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That billboard is going to come back and haunt National should it win the election.
Politics 101: Get elected first, worry about how you got elected second.
a.k.a. everything can be fixed once we're in Office. -
This doesn't even make sense.
Damn straight. It repeats that silly idea that people choose to emigrate because of tax rates. Maybe applies to the several ACT voters, but anyone else who falls for that line deserves the government they get
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Damn straight. It repeats that silly idea that people choose to emigrate because of tax rates. Maybe applies to the several ACT voters, but anyone else who falls for that line deserves the government they get
Act actually do seem to believe it. According to a Herald article Prebble campaigned overseas in '05 "because he said the 174,255 young, educated and skilled people who had left the country under Labour best fitted the profile of ACT voters." Unfortunately for him (and thankfully for the rest of us, I feel), reality struck in the form of "parties' shares of offshore votes in the last election was mostly aligned with their share of the total vote, except for the Green Party, which gained 11 per cent of the offshore vote."
What that tells us is that it ain't the gummint, stupid. It's the traditional Kiwi urge to get overseas to bigger opportunities, and that transcends politics and the other bollocks of which National and Act are so fond. Dunno whether to send that to my precious mate or not. He might have a hissy if I shoot another of his sacred cows.
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That billboard is going to come back and haunt National should it win the election.
NZers going to Australia, UK, US, etc to live is a fact of life and won't change even if the economy flourishes.Some history. In 1979 the UK Tories ran a clever little bill board campaign showing folks queuing up for the dole and a line "Britain isn't working". Unemployment was, of course, way below the 12% high's Thatcher pushed it up to after the election.
Just saying.
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Unfortunately for him (and thankfully for the rest of us, I feel), reality struck in the form of "parties' shares of offshore votes in the last election was mostly aligned with their share of the total vote, except for the Green Party, which gained 11 per cent of the offshore vote."
Those green voters. They effing hate taxes. They're so green, they want a tax free environment.
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