Posts by william blake
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There is a Vice survey going around social media at the moment, stating New Zealand's perception is that the top 1% own 50% of the wealth, where in fact it is between 16-18%; QED kiwis are idiots. I think that general perception is accurate (not the idiot bit). The bottom 50% in NZ own 5% of the wealth, and the top 50% own 95% of it. A great deal of this wealth is tied up in land and real estate.
This level of inequity is the major determinant of poor health and wellbeing.
The fact that the government can spend $40,000,000 just to keep emergency housing at the present level is a clue to the gradual shift away from a welfare state in this country, that has been going on for the past eight years.
Just where do the wealthy, land owning 50% think their tax cuts are coming from?
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Hard News: Crowded houses, in reply to Howard Edwards,
Gutter journalism?
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If Fairfax and NZME merge I understand they will be paywalling Te Herald, so we would have to pay to read Tony Veitch's opinion. That doesn't seem like a very good idea. Online MSM in New Zealand is really going to have to lift its game to be worth buying. We can feel shortchanged by the current content even when it's free.
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Hard News: Forgetting what we didn't know, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Please excuse the further thread Jack but we can all publicly acknowledge Cameron Slaters' hypocrisy in seeking name suppression. What an ass.
And back to the Panama papers with John Key calling Nicky a 'left wing conspiracy theorist', the rebuttal being that the papers suggest that Key is a right wing conspiracy practitioner.
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What puts the icy claws into my heart is this worthless individuals' professional relationship with the hair pulling, white ribbon ambassador John Key.
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A final note on regulation, it may become harder with the ratification of the TPPA.
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I heard a nutritionist on 9-noone speaking of hunter-gatherers eating 4-500 different foods over a year and now we are at around 40-60 foods. Of course it's easier to hunt / gather at packnsave.
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Regulation.
While the state has the responsibility to care for people with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of preventable illnesses due to poor diet,tobacco and alcohol, I think it is fair that the state has the right to tax and regulate the industries in ways that mitigate this suffering.
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