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Written By: Nic the NZer - Date published: 2:30 pm, June 29th, 2026
"However, I'm from the school that believes it's what your wages gets you in return that drives people. For example, if you work hard all week but can't afford to get by, you quickly lose the drive to want to stay in that job" I have no idea what idea ...Written By: Nic the NZer - Date published: 12:49 pm, June 29th, 2026
We have a land tax, it's called Rates, and the main point of highlighting that is that whatever magic economic effects (supposed more productive use of land?) are foretold are already in effect. We should be more realistic about house prices, I don't think ...Written By: Nic the NZer - Date published: 11:17 am, June 29th, 2026
I don't think this captures how a UBI works. The fundamental problem is that a UBI is not sufficient to live on in this economy. That creates a significant problem for people who can't work. There is also an issue here in that this creates a gap between ...Written By: Nic the NZer - Date published: 9:20 pm, June 24th, 2026
The sacking of Starmer by his caucus must be pretty bewildering to you. It's my recon that the "intra-party" nonsense (leading to bleeding voters in every other direction) is relevant here, but who knows maybe they have another reason.Written By: Nic the NZer - Date published: 11:49 am, June 24th, 2026
If you can't connect evicting people (especially the long-term members) from the Labour party, overriding membership on policy and doing regular U-turns on campaign promises, to people joining (and unions switching funding to) other parties then you are ...Written By: Nic the NZer - Date published: 11:14 am, June 24th, 2026
Regardless of that (and if you have been paying way too much attention to party marketing) you can hardly accuse even the Labour left of generating this outcome can you, they were evicted, they are no longer there. The actual cause of Starmer's eviction ( ...Written By: Nic the NZer - Date published: 10:13 am, June 24th, 2026
Were you not paying attention to Starmer's party policies? The left wing of the Labour party was completely evicted from the party. That's what the whole Morgan McSweeney undeclared donations scandal was about.Written By: Nic the NZer - Date published: 11:36 am, June 23rd, 2026
I recommend using the TOP calculator for your IRD returns this year and then to see what that achieves.Written By: Nic the NZer - Date published: 10:44 am, June 23rd, 2026
Starmer has been terrible for the Labour party, most of his policies have been a U-turn on promises he made to the electorate. His resignation is an attempt to stop the bleeding from Labour to every other party.Written By: Nic the NZer - Date published: 7:59 am, June 23rd, 2026
Psycho's opinion has nothing to do with the validity of elevating popular city mayor's (or not). His issue is Burnham has taken up a minimally critical stance towards Israel's crimes. If this was any Zionist Labour mayor looking likely to be PM, he would ...Written By: Nic the NZer - Date published: 2:56 pm, June 19th, 2026
Humans also learn to understand by listening well before they learn to read (or recognize signs and markers). There is no way writing pre-cedes speech in human development.Written By: Nic the NZer - Date published: 11:56 am, June 19th, 2026
"What I found most fascinating from the article was the proposal that writing pre-cedes speech." Whatever is being proposed here the author is simply wrong; humans learn to speak well before they ever learn to write (in every language and culture). "It ...Written By: Nic the NZer - Date published: 11:41 am, June 19th, 2026
Turing never suggested his test was a test of sentience; it's merely a test of intelligent behavior.Written By: Nic the NZer - Date published: 8:08 am, June 15th, 2026
Lol. Good idea, you should really recommend TOPs new policy of IRD collecting rates.Written By: Nic the NZer - Date published: 5:07 pm, June 14th, 2026
Lol. Go look up the "Local Government (Rating) Act 2002" if you're in any way unclear that rates are a tax.Written By: Nic the NZer - Date published: 1:35 pm, June 14th, 2026
The problem with a land value tax is that we have one already (strongly implying it doesn't do the things it is claimed to do). Rates, at least the land value part (roughly 50%) of the rates assessment are an effective land value tax already. So your not ...Written By: Nic the NZer - Date published: 10:58 am, June 3rd, 2026
Thing to recognize about Chechnya is how much better things work out when the West largely stays out of Russian affairs (rather than becoming party to the conflict).Written By: Nic the NZer - Date published: 10:05 pm, June 2nd, 2026
Yes, the 90s.Written By: Nic the NZer - Date published: 10:32 am, June 1st, 2026
Curiously the "incredibly benign strategic environment" occurred briefly when US scare mongering about the USSR ceased and before US scare mongering about Russia began. I'm pretty sure North Head was basically installed owing to a previous "Russian Scare" ...Written By: Nic the NZer - Date published: 9:38 am, May 31st, 2026
C'mon Luxon, next time your out for drinks with Pete Hegseth make sure you buy the first round.Written By: Nic the NZer - Date published: 10:49 pm, May 29th, 2026
This is a very destructive narrative which basically justifies all the harm National is doing with its budget. If the government (any government) had a problem with 9 billion in interest payments it could write off up any amount of debt up to all of its ...Written By: Nic the NZer - Date published: 11:40 am, May 20th, 2026
So, minister, what is it we’re actually meant to DO with AI? | Stuff "Goldsmith, who joined Willis for the announcement in Auckland, said he wasn’t sure how exactly AI tools would be deployed across the public service. “Look, enormous opportunities right ...Written By: Nic the NZer - Date published: 8:11 am, May 12th, 2026
The biggest U-turn by Labour was their running against Tory austerity, which was immediately followed by announcing the country could not afford anything and was running austerity Labour style instead. This includes the infamous retraction of the winter ...Written By: Nic the NZer - Date published: 7:54 am, May 12th, 2026
UK Labour doesn't appear at all concerned about Reform. They spent most of the last week of the election running anti Green messaging on every political forum Labour candidates appeared on. Of course, lots of the left wing of Labour moved to the Green ...Written By: Nic the NZer - Date published: 12:11 pm, May 7th, 2026
It's actually pretty unfortunate for Shaun Plunkett, his investigation by the BSA temporarily brought me the closest I've ever been to watching or listening to some of his comment (in that I actually watched some of the clips of things he was being slapped ...Written By: Nic the NZer - Date published: 9:57 am, April 30th, 2026
In the case of 10 vs 11 trucks you're not moving the weight of the 11th truck itself, so there will be a marginal fuel saving. On the other hand, overall, whatever shipping the company is doing could probably be made more efficient with greater savings. ...Written By: Nic the NZer - Date published: 6:04 pm, April 23rd, 2026
I agree, competition policy kinds of measures might work too. On demand driven inflation I think we might see that within a sector. I certainly think that if the government had gone ahead with full scale Kiwi-build that would have started impeding lots of ...Written By: Nic the NZer - Date published: 11:20 pm, April 22nd, 2026
That's going to depend on the cause of the inflation. In the case of genuine demand driven inflation (which is extremely rare) then stopping ways the government is buying in competition with the private sector might be a policy. Taxation could be but would ...Written By: Nic the NZer - Date published: 11:37 am, April 22nd, 2026
The prior 2022 inflation was not demand driven either (there was a fall in available supply going along with any shortfalls to meet demand). It was ultimately a supply shock impacted by covid's impacts and the Ukraine wars impacts. That didn't stop either ...Written By: Nic the NZer - Date published: 9:58 am, April 22nd, 2026
Tony Alexander is massively overstating the certainty with which monetary policy influences inflation rates in the economy. For essentially ideological reasons monetary policy is seen as more appropriate to deal with inflation than fiscal policy is. In ...
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