Kiwi workers are pretty damned hopeless – says Bill English
National are now so convinced of their invulnerability that they have taken to actively insulting us. You couldn’t make this stuff up.
Economy
Posts on the economy, work, business, income, and labour
The Divide (Spirit Level – The Movie)
Based on the breakthrough book The Spirit Level, just released film The Divide puts a human face on low wage hell. “Why aren’t we earning enough to live?”
Can we trust John Key?
John Key’s relationship with Antipodes Trust Group Limited will need some explaining.
Key’s deposit with company specialising in foreign trusts
Well well well.
Whitewash a certainty in tax haven review
John Key’s solution to the exposure of his ludicrous claims that New Zealand has full disclosure on foreign trusts nor is tax haven, […]
Off-shore Trusts (a simple solution)
I know this won’t happen, but still…
Return of the living dead
Don Brash has been resuscitated and is complaining about privilege and preferential treatment. Not of rich old white people like himself but because Maori rights to Taonga may be recognised.
Netflix tax – another one for you peasants
While Key is fighting to make sure our country remains a haven for his rich mates, he’s about to hit you and I with yet another tax. I don’t have a problem with taxes, but I do take issue with the hypocrisy.
Key changed the law to extend NZ as a tax haven
John Key personally directed the 2011 law change that turned NZ into an attractive tax haven.
It’s part of a complicated context involving his failed plan to turn NZ into a “financial hub”.
A Design for Living; Guest Post
Young Labour member and regular TS reader TheSocialDemocrat has drawn up a manifesto for change. As neo-liberalism enters its twilight phase, now is the time to redefine the debate about what makes a society great.
Kiwis to be implicated by Panama papers
Yesterday The Nation interviewed the Centre for Public Integrity’s Peter Bale about the inevitability of New Zealanders being implicated by the Panama Papers.
Justin Lester: begging is a social issue, not a crime
The Auckland local government race isn’t the only one where begging is becoming a top issue.
Simplicity
Good shit happening in France.
A Song from John (All your questions answered)
Okay. So rumoour has it that John was merely a co-writer.
Brownlee is dragging Canterbury down
The Christchurch rebuild gets its second fail grade from Treasury. And what of the rebuild work that has been done with failed reinforcing steel?
Shameful tactics on beneficiaries
Why does it take a volunteer organisation like Auckland Action Against Poverty to help people get the benefits that they are entitled to?
Panama vows action – NZ closes its eyes
The cycle of corrupt money. 100% tax haven. And we’re being put to shame by Panama.
A cartoon for Planet Key
Kiwibank sale to NZ Super, ACC privatisation by stealth
The transfer of part of Kiwibank to the Cullen Fund will inevitably lead to its privatisation, no matter what the Government says.
Panama tax rort stirs world leaders but not Key
The Panama Papers highlight a significant problem for the countries of the world. The actions of the 1% is robbing countries throughout the world of funds needed to run their countries and underlines that the capitalist system is based on greed. Most leaders see this but not John Key.
Obama calls for international tax reform – what will Key do now?
Key has made it clear that he doesn’t care that NZ is operating as an international tax haven. When The Greens called for action he called them “barking mad”. But last night President Obama called for international action on tax reform. What will Key do now?
Kiwibank partial sell-off
This morning Michael Cullen announced plans to sell 45% of Kiwibank.
John Key’s response to the Panama Papers leak
John Key and National are floundering and trying urgently to work out what lines they should use concerning the release of the Panama Papers.
Deborah Russell: What’s going on with foreign trusts?
Deborah Russell provides expert analysis and commentary on the treatment of foreign trusts in New Zealand and how there is actually a loophole.
Panama Papers: NZ is a tax haven
The Panama Papers show that NZ operates a tax haven. Key’s denials don’t hold up, particularly in the light of at least two three prior warnings that his government has received.
NZ Tax Haven Inc – of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%
A huge leak of confidential documents which reveals how the rich and powerful use tax havens to hide their wealth suggests that New Zealand plays its part.
Global poverty. Global oligarchy.
The west continues to hold a lock on global wealth. Africa and India remain desperately poor. China has built a burgeoning working class and middle class.
Oliver Stone backs Sanders; attacks pro-war Clinton
Oliver Stone says that the fascism and corruption of big money has poisoned US politics. And Hilary Clinton has embraced it.
2800 state houses “transferred”
Yesterday 2800 state houses in Auckland were “transferred” to a new authority, which plans to “reduce the number of people the State is supporting”.
Imperator Fish: The terrifying cost of Labour’s UBI
Imperator Fish warns us of the terrifying cost of Labour’s UBI.
It’s even worse than you think.
The sock puppets, the media and the UBI
Labour’s discussion of a possible UBI is still generating debate.
Postcard from the “brighter” future
Evidence of growing poverty hitting “mid-decile” schools.
Job cuts and the future of work
Two headline job losses today underline the importance of Labour’s Future of Work.
Global elite plan their escape from “pleb masses”
So, Key has now come out and revealed to us how afraid the global oligarch class (and their well paid professional enablers) are. They appear to have no plans to reverse their activites to make things better for us.
A quick question (again)
“More than 2400 benefits suspended since 2013”. I have a quick question…