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Political Interference in TV?
It’s been a longish break, but it’s time to start blogging again. I had been looking for a new topic to start the year with, but as it happens the only discussion thus far this year to capture my...
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Not content with confiscating income, Trotter resorts to misappropriating...
I have read Chris Trotter’s columns for many years, since well before I stopped being a leftist. He is consistently interesting, even if his opinions veer haphazardly from the eminently sensible to...
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The Trickle Down
Inequality has become something of a meme in political discourse lately. I suspect it’s something that Labour make a big deal out of while in opposition, and then go quiet about when they fail to make...
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Economists’ views on the minimum wage
David Farrar today posted on the minimum wage, noting that, despite the much higher median wage, and much higher GDP per capita in the UK, their minimum wage (just increased) is only 88% of ours. A...
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Nonsense and Leftist Sensibility
It is a truth universally acknowledged by the Left that a young man, possessed of relative depravation, must be in want of other people’s stuff. The existence of poverty, or at least inequality, must,...
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Globalising intolerance
David Farrar reported the other day that Senator Bob Brown, the leader of the Australian Green Party, has called for a “global parliament … under the grand idea of one planet, one person, one vote,...
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Our unsung regressive tax
Among the Labour Party’s objections to increasing GST from 12.5% to 15% was that GST is, in their view, regressive. Their reasoning is that because those on lower incomes spend a greater proportion on...
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Cunliffe outlines plan for economy; forgets plan
David Cunliffe, former would-be leader of the Labour Party turned would-be leader of the Labour Party, has delivered the first of a what he promises will be a series of speeches on the economy. Drawing...
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Romney leads Obama for the first time in Economist poll
The Veteran notes over at No Minister that, with Newt Gingrich out of the race, Mitt Romney is left with no rivals for the GOP nomination. He also observes that Romney is starting from behind as both...
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More on Cunliffe’s Great Leap Backwards
Yesterday I noted that David Cunliffe’s recent speech on the economy contained very little beyond populist twaddle aimed at painting himself as the champion of the ignorant and defender of the...
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