Posts by Just thinking
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I will forever read and speak Dawkins word 'meme', in the correct latin, but with the meaning of the maori 'mimi' which is close enough in meaning and pronunciation for my purposes.
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RNZs Panel had Brian Edwards says Bollards study of the 80's GST rise caused the ressession to last years longer due to reduced spending.
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Uni of Canty has a list of all graduates from about 1980 freely able to be viewed.
No grade averages shown, so a handy device to verify quals or steal identities.
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Was that insightful and increasingly meaningful question asked by Radio NZs own Jane Patterson?
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Keith it clearly is a tax cut for those whose income is beyond sufficent, let us call them "Fat Catz". The Fat Catz will have a substantial tax cut on income.
International flights are tax free, as is duty free.
Fat Catz will have substantially more money to spend in the failing Hawaiian economy at their holiday home or island. -
Tom, I've bee looking at house prices vs CV & for some, they're asking 20% below CV from 2008, or land value only.
For the Christchurch real estate, I think he's pretty much about right, or if you shop around will be.
Asking $380000
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-me-property/Residential-property/Houses-for-sale/auction-269615467.htmCV $456000
http://ratesinfo.ccc.govt.nz/PropertyDetails.aspx?RateAccountNum=2042125This is not across the board, Mayor Bob Parker got 30% above GV when he sold his Banks Peninsula home to a political finacier of his.
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Bernard Hickey for President!
His numbers were convincing, that this tax break is for 100,000 landlords at the expense of the rest of NZ.
If you're in opposition right now, maybe, just maybe you want a reasoned and cohesive policy to work for the disadvantaged/disaffected. A point of difference, rebranding if we must go to the marketing blurb.
You've lost the middle ground and there is a, traditional constituancy that has been abandonded. (think Coke Classic minus the opium).
You of course need to drop Goff & King, unless you are still so disorganised that you plan to lose the next election too.
I've noted the Greens have picked this up :)
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Canty Water sure is heating up.
The Politicians for Personal Profit are going on the offensive, as if they needed to try. Making a virtue out of a clear and stated (by others) conflict of interest.Water Forum is on over the next month at New Brighton Markets till 6 March.
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Exactly what wasn't needed.