Posts Tagged ‘tax cuts’
Saturday, January 22nd, 2011
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The news, eh? What is it? Where do I find it? What do I do once I’ve caught it? Is it contagious? Already 2011 has been awful full of news, and with human-produced news levels at their highest point in recorded history, what can be done to prepare for the eventual catastrophe which everyone is certain is coming from somewhere soon?
Tags: 9 day fortnight , ACT , Annette King , Arizona , Auckland , Baltimore , beneficiaries , beneficiary bashing , Century City Apartments , Charlie Brooker , Chris Finlayson , Coromandel , Cost of living , cycleway , David Letterman , Dr Russel Norman , economics , election promises , foreign affairs , girlfriends , Grant Robertson , Green Party , GST , guns , holidays , immigration , Iraq War , John Key , John McCain , Korea , Labour Party , Lord of the Rings , media , mediawatch , MMP , music , National Party , national standards , news , Newtown , Phil Goff , Pike River Mining Disaster , police , politics , prisoners' right to vote , property , public sector , public service , Queensland , Queensland floods , Recession , Rob Muldoon , Rodney Hide , Rongotai , south island , statistics , Steven Franks , Supercity , supply-side economics , tax , tax cuts , tea party movement , The Wire (TV show) , Thorndon , trickle-down economics , twitter , unemployment , united fut , United Future , welfare , Wellington , Wellington Central electorate , west coast
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
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Nobody knows exactly when we will next get to vote. It could be thrust upon us at a moment’s notice. You could be at home, you could be at work. You could be out, it might be dark, you could well be drunk. So it pays to think CONSTANTLY about how you’d vote or else you might get caught out and end up voting for the wrong people in a kind of panic. In this episode we moan about there basically being nobody to vote for, identify who we think are the “Most Egonomist MPs”, Dan outlines precisely what it will take to get him to vote Green, and Dave reminisces about ripping off his shoddy neighbor ‘s unsecured wireless internet.
Tags: 9 day fortnight , ACT , alcoholism , Andrew Little , Annette King , Asians , Australia , Batman , beneficiaries , Bill Birch , Bill English , blogs , Botany , change , Chris Finlayson , Chris Hipkins , Christchurch , Christchurch Earthquake emergency legislation , cycleway , David Benson-Pope , David Cunliffe , David Farrar , Don Brash , Dr Russel Norman , election promises , electotal finance bill , flags , Foreshore and Seabed , Gareth Hughes , Gerry Brownlee , global economic downturn , Grant Robertson , Green Party , Hekia Parata , Helen Clark , internet , Jackson James Wood , Jan Logie , Jenny Shipley , Jim Anderton , Jim Bolger , John Boscawen , Judith Collins , Karori , Kevin Hague , Kiwibank , Kiwiblog , Kmart , Kris Fa'afoi , Labour Party , llamas , Lockwood Smith , Mana by-election , Maori , Maori Party , Maori seats , Matt McCarten , Mike Moore , Movember , Mt Albert , National Party , New York , NZ Post , Pansy Wong , parties , Patrick Gower , Phil Goff , pizza , Red Alert (blog) , Richard Worth , Rob Muldoon , Roger Douglas , Ronald Reagan , Ruth Richardson , Sarah Palin , Star Wars , Stuart Nash , stuff.co.nz , Sue Bradford , Taranaki , Tau Henare , tax cuts , technology , Trevor Mallard , twitter , voters , weight , welfare , Welfare Working Group , Wellington , Winston Peters , Young Nats
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Friday, November 26th, 2010
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Back in August Paula Rebstock, a former commerce commission head and therefore the most appropriate person to make these sorts of life-and-death decisions, released her welfare working group’s issue paper which set us off like a firecracker in episode 50 (highlight here ). Rebstock is back this week, with her group’s recommendation s. Claiming our economy cannot support our society, she makes the dual mistake of forgetting that it’s our society that should come before our economy in that sentence, and that economies do tend to behave rather catastrophically when you base them on bullshit figures .
Tags: 1990s , 2025 Commission , 9 day fortnight , ACC , ACT , Asperger syndrome , asset sales , beer , beneficiaries , beneficiary bashing , Bill English , Britain , cats , Chris Carter , Christianity , Civil Defence , cocaine , commodities , conservatives , corporate responsibility , crime , cycleway , Dancing with the Stars , David Cunliffe , David Garrett , death , disease , divorce , doctors , Don Brash , DPB , earthquakes , economics , education , Foreshore and Seabed , Glen Beck , global economic downturn , health and safety , healthcare reform , invalid/sickness benefit , Ireland , Irish , Jackson James Wood , John Boscawen , John Key , Labour Party , Labour Party UK , looting , Mana by-election , media , Michael Cullen , mining , national debt , National Party , Navy , news , NHS , Opshop , Parliament TV , Paula Bennet , Paula Rebstock , Pike River Mining Disaster , privatisation , Pundit.co.nz , racism , Richard Prebble , Rodney Hide , sex , sick leave , Sinead O'Connor , sleeptalking , solo parenting , Standard and Poors , Sue Bradford , survival kit , Tau Henare , tax , tax cuts , teachers , Terry Serepisos , tertiary education , The Economist , The Standard , The West Wing , Tony Blair , Trevor Mallard , U2 , unemployment , universal minimum income , upper class , wealthy people , weight , welfare , welfare dependency , Welfare Working Group , Wellington , White Ribbon campaign , yachting
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Monday, November 15th, 2010
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Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins. What does that have to do with anything? Eh?!
Tags: "Axe The Tax" , abortion , ACT , Andrew Williams , B Side Beats , Baldness , Bangladesh , Bill Clinton , Bill English , Bone Thugs-n-Harmony , Breakfast , Bronagh Key , Burton Shipley , cancer , Catchphrases , catholics , celebrities , charity , Chelsea Clinton , Chris Trotter , clubbing , Coastal Coalition , computers , Conor English , contraception , cooperative banking , Covlin , currency , Dipton , downs syndrome , dowry , drinking , drinking age , Ecstacy , evangalism , facial hair , Foreshore and Seabed , Freedom Flotilla , Genesis , genitals , Geoffrey Palmer , Grameen Bank , Grapefruit , Green Party , GST , heart disease , Helen Clark , high tech industry , Hillary Clinton , Hitler , Hobbit , honey badgers , Ian Wishart , Ice TV , IHC , iPad , Jackson James Wood , Jenny Shipley , Jesus , Jim Bolger , Jimmy Carter , John Key stole Dave's little table , Keith Locke , Keith Ng , King Country , Kofi Annan , Labour Party , Maori Party , maritime law , Marxism , maths , Matt McCarten , MEAA , medicine , middle ages , Mike Moore , Mikey Havoc , Movember , Muhammad Yunus , music , National Party , newspapers , Nixon , p , parties , Paul Henry , Peter Davis , Peter Gabriel , Phil Collins , Playboy , pop , prog rock , Public Address , Raglan , Realworld , Remix magazine , Richard Branson , rock , Rodney Hide , Ronald Reagan , sex , Sinead O'Connor , Sir Anand Satyanand , snakes , Steffie Key , stuff.co.nz , Tariana Turia , tattoos , tax cuts , Tech bubble , The Elders , The Hobbit , Tom Scott , twitter , VAT , weed , wildlife , WOMAD , world music
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Friday, November 12th, 2010
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In this episode we ask you to believe that we planned for a rant about war to come out around Armistice Day and that this episode isn’t just the random wafflings of a pair of Mark Corrigans that was going to happen anyway. Do it!
Tags: "Court of the Red Tsar" book , "Fog of War" film , "The Yes Men" , "Young Stalin" book , 9/11 , Aceh , Afghanistan War , Africa , AK-47 , American Civil War , Angola , Archimedes , Australia , Ayatollah Khomeini , Baath party , Balibo (film) , Balibo 5 , Best Coast , Bill English , Britain , business confidence , Canada , cartography , colonialism , communism , Costa Rica , credit cards , debt , defense , domino effect , Don Brash , East Timor , Falkland Islands , France , Gallipoli , genocide , George Bush snr , Germany , Google , google maps , government spending , Gulf War , Hiroshima , history , Hitler , immigrants , India , Indonesia , industrial revolution , Iran , Iran-Iraq war , Iraq , Iraq War , islamic extremism , Israel , Istanbul , Japan , Jews , John Key , Jordan , Korea , Ku Klux Klan , Kuwait , Labour Party , League of Nations , Malaysia , Manchuria , Marxism , Mexico , Michael Cullen , Nagasaki , national debt , National Front , National Party , nationalism , Newtown , Nicaragua , nuclear weapons , NZRAF , Ottoman Empire , pacifism , Pakistan , Pearl Habour , Peter Dunne , Poland , Portugal , prison labour , public sector , racism , Rape of Nanking , Russia , Saddam Hussein , Saipan , Simon Sebag Montefiore , slavery , socialism , South America , Stalin , Suharto , Syria , tax cuts , Terrorism Supression Act , The Hobbit , the holocaust , The Phillipines , the UN , Tokyo , UAE , USSR , video games , Vietnam , Vladamir Putin , war , welfare , Wellington Phoenix , Winston Churchill , World War I , World War II
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Sunday, October 17th, 2010
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Darren Watson , Wellington blues icon and all ’round nice fella, swung by for a chat. DW’s never been afraid of speaking his mind on political issues, as anyone who’s seen him alter the lyrics mid-performance of blues numbers to ridicule National supporters can attest.
Darren’s new album “Saint Hilda’s Faithless Boy” is out November 1st on Red Rocks Records. Release parties are in Wellington on the 21st October at Ruby Lounge and in Auckland on the 23rd of October at Juice Bar.
Tags: "The Great War For Civilisation" , "To Play The King" , 1981 Tour , 4th Labour Government , ACT , amyl nitrate , Andrew Little , Arabs , Ayn Rand , BBC , Bernard Hickey , bigotry , Bill English , blues , Britain , Bronagh Key , Celia Wade-Brown , Charles Chauvel , Chris Carter , Christmas , Citizens and Ratepayers , Claire Curran , Conor English , conservatives , Darren Watson , David Benson-Pope , David Lange , Dominion Post , Duncan Garner , Fairfax , federated farmers , gays , George Orwell , GHB , Goebbels , Green Party , Guitar , Helen Clark , Helen Kelly , high school , Hitler , homophobia , inflation , Iraq War , Islam , Israel , Jackson James Wood , James Brown , Jesus , Jews , Jim Bolger , John Key , Kerry Prendegast , KFC , Kim Jong-il , Kiwi Cricket , Kyle Chapman , Labour Pa , Labour Party , Labour Party UK , lawyers , Lethal Weapon , Lethal Weapon II , Margaret Thatcher , Maria Carey , Marilyn Waring , Merryl Lynch , Mount Victoria , music , Music piracy , National Front , National Party , New Zeal , North Korea , Oman , Paul Henry , Phil Goff , racism , Rex Nichols , Rob Muldoon , Robert Fisk , Roger Douglas , Ruth Dyson , Ruth Richardson , Saudi Arabia , sex , Shane Jones , Solomon Burke , STV , tax cuts , term limits , The Herald , The Standard , Trevor Loudon , TV3 , TVNZ , twitter , unions , Upper Hutt , WCC , Winston Churchill , World War II , Yemen
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Thursday, October 7th, 2010
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Join us as we try to set Dan up with Deborah Hill Cone. Have a look at her sterling wit here , just before John Campbell has to actively resist punching her in the face.
But mainly we take a look at Andrew Little – can he be Labour’s Don Brash In A Good Way Don’t Get Me Wrong Here? Can he save us from the horrors we so accurately predict (will be Bill English’s fault)? It’s all a bit of a downer – BUT! Comedic relief is here in the form of a brand new ACT MP! Hurray!
Tags: 90s , ACT , American politics , Andrew Little , asset sales , Australia , banking , banks , Bill English , Bill O'Reilly , Bill of Rights , books , broken homes , Bruce Springsteen , cats , class , conservatism , conservatives , Courtenay Place , Dante , David Garrett , Deborah Hill Cone , diet , divorce , Don Brash , drinking , Dunedin , Embarrassed Millionaire , Employment Contracts Act , employment relations , EPMU , export , facebook , family values , fast food , food , Foreign ownership , founding fathers , Fox News , free market , gangs , Geraldo Rivera , girlfriends , Glen Beck , global economic downturn , Green Party , Heather Roy , Helen Clark , Hillary Calvert , hip hop , human rights , Jenny Shipley , John Boscawen , John Key , Ka Pai , Labour Party , lawyers , Magna Carta , masturbation , MMP , music , National Party , New Plymouth , Newtown , nightlife , Otago Daily Times , pigeons , political music , poor people , pork , poverty , property management , prostitutes , prostitution , racsm , Rasputin , recruitment companies , redheads , relationships , Religion , right wing , Rodney Hide , Roger Douglas , Ruth Richardson , sex , Star Wars , students , Supercity , tax cuts , tea party movement , The Listener , Treasury , Trevor Loudon , twitter , unions , Vivian Street , Wanganui , Wellington Central electorate , workers' rights
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Thursday, September 30th, 2010
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Tax cuts, the National government’s raison d’être , come in to affect from tonight. This is why you voted these folks in, people. Let’s cut to the question that’s been on your mind since 2008: What’s in it for you ?
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
Tags: accountancy , Afghanistan , Afghanistan War , AIDs , Anne Tolley , appendicitis , Archduke Franz Ferdinand , art , assasination , asset sales , Australia , Australian Elections , Batman , BBC , beer , Ben Hana/Blanket Man , bigotry , boat people , Britain , Chris Carter , closing the gap , Congo , Cranium (game) , death , drink driving , drinking , drinking age , drinking games , East Timor , education , elderly , Fairfax , foreign affairs , gays , Gerry Brownlee , good looks , Hamid Karzai , Helen Clark , hip hop , history , ICC , International Democrat Union , Jasiri X , Jim Bolger , John Howard , John Key , John Wayne , Julia Gillard , Julian Assange , Kath & Kim , Labour Party Australia , Liberal Party Australia , Lieutenant Timothy O'Donnell , local body elections , local government , Maori , maths , mayors , mental illness , Merryl Lynch , military , minerals , mining , National Party , New South Wales , New York , New Zealand First , New Zealand military , obesity , organised crime , parenthood , Paula Bennett , Phil Goff , Prince , Queensland , racism , rap , redheads , refugees , RICO , Rob Muldoon , SAS , school , school leavers , sex , Spike Milligan , Stephen Tindall , street art , stuff.co.nz , Tauranga , tax cuts , terrorism , The North Shore , The Warehouse , Tony Abbott , Trevor Mallard , Tuku Morgan , Unocal , USSR , Victoria , Wales , Walzing Matilda , Wanganui , war , Wikileaks , Winston Peters
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
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Sorry for the delay, everybody. Here’s our FORTIETH EPISODE! From Auckland’s “Party Central” (failed plans for a celebration zone on Auckland’s waterfront) to Wellington’s “Party Central” (Dan and Dave in a strip joint) to Christchurch’s “Party Central” (serious sexual assault allegations), this episode has the lot.
We use the N word in this episode, quoting You-Know-Who . Just a heads up.
Tags: "Party Central" , 1970s , access radio , advertising , alcohol , All Blacks , Andy Haden , arson , Auckland , banking , beer , black market , blackmail , Bodega , Catch 22 , change , Charlotte Dawson , clothes , clubbing , currency , currency conversion , David Bain , Dennis Rodman , depression , Dominion Post , donk , Dreamgirls , drinking , Fat Freddy's Drop , Football World Cup , girlfriends , Grant Fox , hangovers , Helensville , herpes , history , Holland/Netherlands , House Party (film) , Ireland , Irish , John Banks , John Key , John Key stole Dave's little table , John Kirwan , Kings Arms tavern , lapdances , Liks (club) , live albums , Maori , Mark Lanegan , mayors , media , Mel Gibson , Michael Jackson , Mortal Kombat , music industry , NAMBLA , National Party , National Party conference , NBA , nightlife , nudity , Obama , OIA requests , oral sex , Otakari , Outrageous Fortune , parties , Ponsonby , prostitutes , races , racism , rape , right wing , Robin Brooke , Rugby , Rugby World Cup , sexism , sexual assault , Sir Walter Raleigh , sound effects , South Korea , Spain , Spanish Armada , Sport , strip clubs , strippers , Supercity , tax cuts , The Mint Chicks , The Sopranos , The Wire (TV show) , Tinakori Road , TV , TV3 , wealthy people , Wellington , Wellywood , West Auckland , Weta Workshops , women , wwtdd.com
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