National love to tell us what we want to hear. Among their many pre-election policy lies they waxed lyrical about the value of education, before effectively cutting funding in the budget. On Adult and Community Education (ACE), Bill English was particularly supportive…
Protests are taking place around the country today against the National Government’s miserable 25 cent increase to the minimum wage.
Click through for today’s Tom Scott cartoon.
He hits the nail on the head.
Putting up GST hits the poor the hardest.
For Kiwis who are barely scrapping by every cent counts.
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Update: Link’s dead but I found this trailer on youtube
This is pretty classic. Found it on one of The Standard’s old posts. I think we’ll be seeing a bit more of this […]
Relating to what I wrote yesterday about the Right and much of the media being largely blind to the existence of those of […]
The other day I wrote: I reckon we probably will see a passing reference to the ‘underclass’ for appearance’s sake [in John Key’s […]
Minister of Justice Simon Power has unfortunately decided to completely ignore recommendations made by the Law Commission on drug reform. This is an […]
The best political commentary these days doesn’t come from the political journalists. As Zetetic shows, they have turned themselves into government minders. But […]
It turns out that the silly ‘no-one owns it’ option for the foreshore and seabed is John Key’s ‘elegant solution’. Here he is defending […]
In chronological order: John Key: “[I never promised I wouldn’t raise GST]. I said I would not raise GST to cover deficits, and […]
Paying a person doing the same work as another person less money because of their sex or religion or ethnicity or any other grounds […]
Open mike is your post. It’s open for discussing topics of interest, making announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. Comment on whatever takes your […]
Campaign for a living wage is protesting the offices of National MPs this Saturday to protest increases in GST and the miserly increase […]
Enough of all of this politics. Lets look at something that is more mysterious than the hole that John Key is digging for […]
Over the last month or so National’s pollster David Farrar has been running a series of posts desperately trying to pin the spike […]
Twenty years ago, on 11 February 1990, after 27 years of incarceration, Nelson Mandela walked out of Victor Verster prison on a hot Sunday afternoon. And history changed.
My my, things are turning quickly for John Key. We now have the first sighting of the red flag term “the beleaguered PM” […]
“Last GST hike had little impact, say tax experts” – Herald The article is about inflation but it is also true of growth. […]
The Government and the secretive Iwi Leadership Group are looking at an option where no-one owns the foreshore and seabed. It’s often forgotten […]
As I have mentioned before, Jeanette Fitzsimons is one of the very few members of parliament for whom I have the utmost respect. […]
Yesterday, Rahui Katene said the Maori Party could walk away from National if they didn’t adequately compensate low and middle income people for increasing […]
“An unscientific poll yesterday of 846 readers asking whether they would be happy to pay more GST if it meant they paid less […]
I find it frustrating that the debate over tax concerntrates on the top rate rate, which doesn’t apply to 90% of taxpayers. It’s […]
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Number of jobless Kiwis = 276,000 Number of jobs plans from Key Government = 0 Key can make all the vague references to […]
Apparently promises made before the election don’t count. GST was different then anyway.
John Key is hell bent on carving up our most pristine National Parks for mining. No matter what. The areas most at risk […]
John Key has indicated that the Government will lift the GST rate to 15% and remove depreciation from investment houses. According to the […]
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Someone’s noticed that during her recent Tea Party speech Palin had “Energy”, “Tax,” and “Lift Americans Spirits” written on her hand – she used […]
You’ll recall that last week National spent $200,000 of taxpayer dollars on a proganda drop defending its national standards. This was a targeted […]
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