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网页Written By: mickysavage Date published: 10:51 am, September 19th, 2024 - 21 comments Categories: capital gains, capitalism, Economy, tax, uncategorized Tags: A recently Tax Justice Aotearoa study suggests that the country could impse a capital gains tax or wealth tax and the wealthy would still be better off than they would be in similar countries.
Politics - The Standard
网页National plan for 2000 extra Kiwis in prison per year. By: Mountain Tui - 9:01 am, September 17th, 2024 - 15 comments. The government plans to put up to 2000 more Kiwis behind bars by 2034 at a potential cost of up to $1.2bn per budget in today’s money. Meanwhile crime, including violent crime is increasing across all of NZ.
Daily review 20/09/2024 « The Standard
网页7 小时之前 · By: notices and features - 5:30 pm, September 20th, 2024 - No comments. Categories: Daily review - Tags: Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other ….
local government – The Standard
网页2024年8月28日 · By: Mountain Tui - 4:16 pm, August 30th, 2024 - 38 comments. 94% of councils that have voted vote to retain Maori wards. Many of them are National background Councillors and previously urged Central Government to not push ahead with the legislation. The forced local referendums are now expected …
health - The Standard
网页By: mickysavage - 9:24 am, July 30th, 2024 - 26 comments. Senior medical figures have questioned the accuracy of what the Government is saying about the health crisis in Northland. And in an example of unbelievably bad timing it has been revealed that the Goverment put aside $216 million to fund a exise duty reduction for Phillip Morris.
Environment - The Standard
网页A new Labour electricity policy. Written By: advantage - Date published: 10:19 am, September 9th, 2024 - 70 comments. Proposed policy for the Labour Party. New Zealand’s power system should empower the people in their lives and systems, secure electricity use and production for New Zealand in perpetuity, and make the electricity system serve New Zealand not the other way round.
Media - The Standard
网页Since taking office, the climate-denier National government has gutted agricultural emissions pricing, ended the clean car discount, repealed water quality standards which would have reduced agricultural emissions, gutted the clean car standard, killed the GIDI scheme, and reversed efforts to reduce pollution subsidies in the ETS - basically every significant ...
Economy - The Standard
网页David Seymour’s Ministry of Regulation costs $80mn. By: Mountain Tui - 12:38 pm, August 22nd, 2024 - 17 comments. David Seymour’s new Ministry has 91 staff, including 3 Deputy CEOs who earn up to $348K each – more than Ministers. Seymour wants to use it as a vehicle to change how NZ makes laws and invokes Ruth Richardson in his vision.
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national - The Standard
网页2024年8月18日 · Is the Treaty Principles Bill dead or has it just suffered a flesh wound? Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:31 pm, August 20th, 2024 - 21 comments. Even though National and NZ First have ruled out supporting Act’s Treaty Principles Bill beyond the first reading David Seymour thinks that the Bill has a chance of succeeding and wishes to proceed with introduction of the bill.