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Written By: Sam M - Date published: 7:44 pm, April 8th, 2026
The $50 fuel relief payment is a close to $400 million dollar gift from taxpayers direct to the fuel companies on top of the gains they are and will make from their massive price rises. South Korea has announced it is capping it's fuel exports at 2025 ...Written By: Sam M - Date published: 3:08 pm, April 8th, 2026
Yep. Thanks to the frequent use of words such as Crisis and emergency and catastrophe the oil companies have a perfect justification for massively hiking fuel prices even though there doesn't appear to be any shortage in supply and demand wouldn't have ...Written By: Sam M - Date published: 2:58 pm, April 8th, 2026
You mention the need to get past our growth economy and change how we do things but then you suggest that every new build should / could have passive solar, hot water and panels. Well that is exactly the sort of thing that contributes to economic growth ...Written By: Sam M - Date published: 2:33 pm, April 8th, 2026
"we need to lower public debt and private debt every year..." Right, so if both public and private debt are to be lowered every year that means the economy will go into recession (negative growth for 2 qtrs or whatever) followed by the economy actually not ...Written By: Sam M - Date published: 7:16 pm, March 24th, 2026
Reinstating size limits doesn't stop undersized fish from being killed it just means they will be dumped again rather than kept. If you force commercial fishers to keep all caught fish (including undersize fish and non targeted species) it forces them to ...Written By: Sam M - Date published: 7:00 pm, March 24th, 2026
If the average price per liter rise in Auckland over the last 3 weeks is say $1 per liter (so from $2.50 to $3.50 per liter) for example that's the equivalent of 50 liters at the pre-war price. 50 liters is a full tank for most modern cars so a full tank a ...Written By: Sam M - Date published: 11:49 am, March 20th, 2026
"it only covers around 80% of their domestic consumption." China imports 68% of their domestic oil consumption. https://www.worldometers.info/oil/china-oil/Written By: Sam M - Date published: 1:35 pm, March 16th, 2026
Meanwhile, China has massively increased it's coal fired power generation and built 2 new coal fired power stations a week last year and has a further close to 300 in the short term planned and being built.Written By: Sam M - Date published: 1:08 pm, March 16th, 2026
I'm not a straw man and I know plenty of others who aren't either. I drive a 1994 toyota starlet that cost me 500 bucks a few years ago. Are you seriously suggesting that welfare assistance will help those on low incomes buy an electric vehicle??? While ...Written By: Sam M - Date published: 12:49 pm, March 16th, 2026
A NZ, Australia, Canada and UK trade bloc would only have 4 countries, all with closely matching and stable political systems, all with shared values and similar cultures, etc,etc. So much much easier to agree upon and maintain than trying to keep over 40 ...Written By: Sam M - Date published: 12:36 pm, March 16th, 2026
I don't see where it claims it will use 'spare' renewable energy as you stated? It says "available renewable energy resources locally" To me that says renewable energy resources that are not currently being utilized? In other words they would build new ...Written By: Sam M - Date published: 12:15 pm, March 16th, 2026
If the income tax system was fair for a start and if all income was subject to income tax as it should be, we wouldn't need GST at all.Written By: Sam M - Date published: 12:12 pm, March 16th, 2026
Our electricity generation is about 85% renewables and our prices have gone up and up and up. if we get to 100% renewables I doubt prices will come down at all.Written By: Sam M - Date published: 11:55 am, March 16th, 2026
Speaking of panic buying, I never got my head around the whole toilet paper thing during covid. I mean why would you go out and panic buy huge amounts of loo paper? If you actually ran out there's a myriad of other stuff you could use if you had to. And if ...Written By: Sam M - Date published: 11:46 am, March 16th, 2026
Except forests aren't disappearing today, the planet is greening massively.Written By: Sam M - Date published: 11:40 am, March 16th, 2026
We coped with them just fine when they were brought in back in the 70's. What confuses me is that oil price in 2022 was way higher than today at about 122 us per barrel (especially if you account for 4 years of currency devaluation via inflation) so why ...Written By: Sam M - Date published: 11:28 am, March 16th, 2026
Mini nuclear power generators should be (or should become when they are viable) part of the datacentre's build so they are providing their own clean energy?Written By: Sam M - Date published: 11:22 am, March 16th, 2026
The thing about debt of course is that it always has to increase if you want economic growth. Economic growth means more jobs, more goods and services, etc. the amount of money in the economy has to increase to facilitate that economic growth, (pay more ...Written By: Sam M - Date published: 2:53 am, January 11th, 2026
The way I see it is that savings rates and govt debt are closely related for a different reason. High savings rates means high government debt is due to money creation and economic growth. If everyone saves money it means there is low borrowing so less ...Written By: Sam M - Date published: 11:07 pm, September 9th, 2025
And further, I would make laws that mean only an actual real life living human being (so not just a legal 'person') must be listed as the owner of a residential property. Because again, the only reason that a company for example, would have for purchasing ...Written By: Sam M - Date published: 10:50 pm, September 9th, 2025
a 1 pint bottle of milk delivered to you door was 3 cents not that long ago..... sighWritten By: Sam M - Date published: 10:47 pm, September 9th, 2025
If you think that "most" people will be entering the "middle class" in the future, I would suggest have a re-think. The so called "middle class" is shrinking along with home ownership rates and will probably be no longer a thing at some point in the not ...Written By: Sam M - Date published: 10:36 pm, September 9th, 2025
IMO the only people who should be allowed to purchase residential single dwelling (so houses, townhouses, etc) properties in NZ should be NZ citizens and permanent residents. The only reason a foreigner would have to buy a residential property in a country ...Written By: Sam M - Date published: 10:08 pm, September 9th, 2025
So a council employee working in an office job by the sounds of it rather than in the field, states with certainty that council isn't full of wasteful spending, isn't in general incompetent and there's no corruption of course. Are you involved in paying ...Written By: Sam M - Date published: 10:03 pm, September 9th, 2025
One example of the trouble with capping rates rises to inflation is that prices for the myriad of services council pays external providers for and project work, etc, all go up in price much faster than the 'official' rate of inflation. But Salaries for ...Written By: Sam M - Date published: 10:00 pm, September 9th, 2025
So sign a pledge and then weasel out of it when you don't do what you signed up to do. Give the reason that "they forced you to sign it"... etc Couldn't we just save all that drama and vote some adults onto council instead.Written By: Sam M - Date published: 9:57 pm, September 9th, 2025
I guess you see a different side of things than what I have been involved with otherwise you'd be aghast just like many people are when you see the prices paid on council contracts and projects / services. There's a reason why so many contractors see ...Written By: Sam M - Date published: 9:34 pm, September 9th, 2025
I don't disagree at all with the second and third statements on the pledge and having knowledge of various contractors and amounts of rate payers money being what I consider "ripped off" from rate payers paying well over fair market prices for all sorts of ...Written By: Sam M - Date published: 3:31 am, August 15th, 2025
I think it would be better to first make the current tax legislation fair. So get rid of the multitude of exemptions for a start. There are many along the lines of "... this income is not treated as income for income tax purposes.." These usually benefit ...Written By: Sam M - Date published: 3:12 am, August 15th, 2025
Please explain how a person on say 60,000 per annum pays no net tax? They pay PAYE income tax for a start, they pay GST and they pay petrol tax plus the myriad of other hidden taxes. So where is the 'thing' that gives them back all of the income they have ...
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