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- Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:50 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
They all speak to the same God…….they just use different phones……
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 5:08 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
I think we’re already there……... It seems we're moving away from what's best for NZ and more into American style politics where it's us and them.
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:25 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Booji - So you're saying we're in the shit? Thanks, I'll make sure I spend my $25 a week tax cut wisely. Your words not mine......pointing out the if NactNZ promote themselves as bettter economic managers, it would be expected that their policies be better costed. What I am also saying is ....wrong...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:47 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Ooops! Is that why Nactnz is cancelling kids lunches? Miscalculated by half a billion…..that makes a bit of a dent in “back pocket” tax returns. Hey Ho…… Inland Revenue (IRD) predicts the Government's plans to raise money from online casinos will bring in much less money than National had costed for...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:21 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The wordle thread.
- Replies: 4441
- Views: 245948
Re: The wordle thread.
First word: RAISE
Second word: YOUTH
Second word: YOUTH
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:13 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The wordle thread.
- Replies: 4441
- Views: 245948
Re: The wordle thread.
First word: RAISE
Second word: YOUTH
Second word: YOUTH
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 4:12 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
A problem that NZ has is the “over the ditch” problem. Australia has a real advantage in that when compared to NZ, wages and salaries are better. Public services are much better paid in the health, education, and policing systems to mention three. Currently being in Term 1 of the school year, there ...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 3:54 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Health, education, housing, crime and infrastructure are all deteriorating and nobody seems to have an answer that will stop their decline, never mind having a clear vision of what it will take to improve them. Agree with your observation there…….one thing that would help though would be an end to ...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:50 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:32 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:13 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Gerard Otto is a stirrer but this made me giggle
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:58 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Broadened the taxbase.....mystery to me...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 7:34 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Mr Mike...... With regard to the asset from which the income stream is derived , property (brightside aside) is treated the same as a business or shares would be. If originally purchased for resale then later resale is taxable, otherwise it's a Capital gain. If so......then why do other countries ha...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:25 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Genuine question re taxation……….. Person A has a lump sum of 250,000 and decides to by a second house. That person goes into the property rental business. The rent received pays part of the of the mortgage….lessens income by claiming mortgage interest deductions from income, along with repairs, rate...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:51 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
The three waters thing was all about who was going to pay for the upgrades……the NActs shifted the responsibility for financing the work from central government tax collection….to local body rate collection. Without such a move the consistent theme of the money managers is less government, less taxat...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 9:18 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
I think you missed my comment’s meaning there Booji……..media volume on one piddling little issue v media silence on another of real significance…….when translating between one language and another……you hear what you want to hear……
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:17 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
The haka seems to me a big whooooosh! If it wasn't for the media........99% of kiwis wouldn't have understood what was being chanted during the haka. It's funny how many are offended by the translation and believe in the veracity of the words used.......then ignore the translation of maori in the tr...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 10:14 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
School lunches....... The most effective method of providing for the kids with little or no food, are the programmes provided within the school where kids get a bit of a choice...one model doesn't fit all....and they serve the kids who need it. All schools have duty teachings during breaks, and part...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:45 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
What radio station does Darcy Waldegrave broadcast from?
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 1:04 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Feck the tax cuts!......infrastucture is crying out for government investment..... National Heatland.....Selwyn.....A second campus for Rolleston College will be delayed, stripped back and redesigned amid a Ministerial Inquiry into new plans for school buildings. The campus is losing classrooms, off...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 11:14 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Tubby: NZ be prioritizing costal shipping of goods to Lyttleton, Timaru, Dunedin and Invercargill from Auckland, Tauranga, Napier and Wellington rather than trucks on ferries? All our cities are mainly on the coast with large ports . Have to agree with Tubby…….coastal shipping and rail would remove...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 9:42 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Has Reti outlined his "replacement" Maori Health Authority yet......as the "replacement" three waters has been outlined......and as we await the "replacement" Cook Strait link.....as we await the "replacement" NZ new homes programme.....as we await the "replacement" Road infrastructure programme.......
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 9:31 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Eug noted: It does however seem that many billions on roads are exponentially more important If that is the case, I sincerely hope that at least one of these billions will be spent on the main highways between Christchuch-Greymouth, and Christchurch - Nelson/Marlborough. All my life I have been trav...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 6:08 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
I think the puppet master had a big say in the 180 reversal........
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 5:43 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Onya Luxon....180......political perception is every thing.....match your personal life with your expectations for others....your original decision to keep the 52K was naive as a leader!
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:29 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:25 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Wind in the Willows comes to mind here.......Christopher Robin.....more like Christopher robbin' the NZ coffers.....can't have been enough profit in being able to claim back interest on taxes on 7 buildings/dwellings he owns.....his behaviour better matches WITW characters Rat, and Toad.
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 2:54 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Mr Mike: "Any increased cash in the “economic churn” should be offset by lower Government spending and annual incomes don’t change in gross terms as a result, only net incomes for some." Really? It's ok to lock wage and salary growth.........and let the "market" pass costs of doing business on, whi...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 8:39 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Is it possible that tax cuts are being pushed by Government because……. * Joe Public receive an increase in take home weekly cash * That this increase puts more cash into the economic churn * That this increase is paid for by ourselves, rather than increases in salaries & wages * That this increase i...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:00 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Re Gang insignia ban…..how will this work? As the police cannot be everywhere at once, and the Gangs will not simply lie down over this, does it mean that Joe Public end up “reporting law breaking gang members”? Our general population will exhibit their usual response to seeing gang members wearing ...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 7:34 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Improved computer management systems can be a real cockup in NZ. Was working in the Education system when the “new improved pay system” was introduced. Staff were either paid too much, not enough or not at all……and had to be given emergency wage payments from the schools operation grants, which drai...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 9:12 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: So I have an interview coming up and need the bored's help
- Replies: 21
- Views: 678
Re: So I have an interview coming up and need the bored's help
Who’s the curriculum being developed for?
Is it for the public STD prevention programmes, and those health employees promoting the programmes?
Is it for training the Staff who deal with STD patients, their training in identification, treatment, monitoring wellness after treatment,etc
Is it for the public STD prevention programmes, and those health employees promoting the programmes?
Is it for training the Staff who deal with STD patients, their training in identification, treatment, monitoring wellness after treatment,etc
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 11:19 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Super Rugby gets rid of kick tennis
- Replies: 69
- Views: 2989
Re: Super Rugby gets rid of kick tennis
Good……kicking tennis gone…. …..And so should this offside law about players being ahead of the ball with the rolling maul! The only time that the rolling maul should be allowed is if the line out catcher RETAINS the ball, then he/she will then be onside as he/she has the rest of the players behind h...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:27 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Ah well.....the needs of NZ are really being exposed at present. Billions needing to be invested in the following just to catch up..... Transport ...... bulk carriers: trains in Auckland, Ferries on Cook Strait Education...... 100 teaching spaces on hold, recruitment and remuneration Defence ...... ...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 10:21 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Gerry Brownlee says the privacy of people with 'lobbying roles' should be protected, while officials have drawn up a new code of conduct. The identities of people allowed to freely come and go from Parliament have been made secret by the new Speaker. Gerry Brownlee told RNZ he did not agree with th...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 2:59 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Good point made on air this morning as to where the Treaty stands in Law......
David Seymour continues to argue that the Treaty is race based and divisive.
The speaker on air says he's barking up the wrong tree......it's an agreement between the Crown and Maori, which is correct.
David Seymour continues to argue that the Treaty is race based and divisive.
The speaker on air says he's barking up the wrong tree......it's an agreement between the Crown and Maori, which is correct.
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 9:20 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
there is a reason why more CEOs look like Rob Fyfe than Chris Luxon.....which is?
Stability of role determined by bottom line profit.....v.....stability of role determined by an electorate?
Stability of role determined by bottom line profit.....v.....stability of role determined by an electorate?
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 2:25 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
I'm with you there about the coffee bun......i usually eat the lot in one sitting..... A memory I just recalled was ice blocks that had two sticks, sticking out the bottom....they were 4d as i remember, and if you only had 2d.....the dairy owner at the end of the street let you buy a half one! About...
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 9:54 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437382
Re: NZ Politics Thread
"Defining the principles is still one party unilaterally determining the effect of the treaty."
Sounds a bit like Key's dumping of ECan and sale of Power to mum and dad investors back in the day....setting up big profits to privateers.....
Sounds a bit like Key's dumping of ECan and sale of Power to mum and dad investors back in the day....setting up big profits to privateers.....
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 3:00 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: This women gave her co-workers boners over coffee.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1610
Re: This women gave her co-workers boners over coffee.
" wrote a letter to her GP complaining that something was making her ill"
she'll probably write again.....if she can remember where her pen is....
she'll probably write again.....if she can remember where her pen is....