23 November 2017
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Pete George
/ November 23, 2017I’m not sure how you can have rates reform without reducing council expenditure.
If they just reduce rates that suggests moving to tax under a different name – like fuel tax.
High Flying Duck
/ November 23, 2017I would assume she was referring to the method of determining the rates burden for each household.
The current CV method is laughably inadequate and in need of overhaul. Especially in Auckland where values have moved so far.
NOEL
/ November 23, 2017After CV was introduced I predicted in the first year my rates would rise just because of the change from LV to CV and was proved right.
Next was a split in the uniform annual charge which was applied to every ratepayer hence the use of the word uniform, to an additional UAG that was CV rated.
I would have thought with the many algorithms that today’s computers carry out they would have invented a template that allowed for a fairer method of obtaining local body income.
Pete George
/ November 23, 2017High Flying Duck
/ November 23, 2017It’s all part of the Labour Pixie Dust Solution.
Step 1 Add levies and fees; reduce everyone’s spending power & severely cut immigration
Step 2 Pixie dust
Step 3 Make everything more affordable and fill all the employment shorfalls in building and trades, teachers, police, nurses…
The pixie dust solution is also being used to fix crime and prisons, mining, Pike River and refugees.
Pete George
/ November 23, 2017A very good win 2-1
duperez
/ November 23, 2017A very meritorious win for the Black Sticks women. They have regularly raised their profile with good performances and then fallen at the critical game. This tournament, the biggest in the history of the sport in New Zealand, threatened to be anticlimactic with poor results through generally substandard play.
They held on against Argentina with more spirited play yet there were still inexplicable skill lapses and lack of cohesion.
Hockey has about twice as many players in New Zealand than rugby league, are in the upper echelons in both men’s and women’s divisions in one of the most popular of world sports, yet gets comparatively little media attention. I agree with Jim Kayes’ sentiment. Made the news over there too:
https://www.clarin.com/deportes/hockey/leonas-perdieron-podran-defender-titulo-liga-mundial_0_H1I3Ke7eM.html
Interesting to look at different lists of popular sports.
https://sporteology.com/top-10-popular-sports-world/
https://viralknot.com/most-played-sports-in-world/
http://www.totalsportek.com/most-popular-sports/
phantom snowflake
/ November 23, 2017Rachel Stewart vomits all over The Herald business page: “Fonterra and dairy industry spin makes me sick”
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11946230
Blazer
/ November 23, 2017she is completely right about the spin ..though.
phantom snowflake
/ November 23, 2017True that. I’m not sure if she’ll ever find the redemption she seeks for her own past farming sins.