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Roger Douglas If you could push the reform button, and replace the totality of New Zealand's welfare system with a negative income tax, would you do it?
en.wikipedia.org
In economics, a negative income tax (abbreviated NIT) is a progressive income tax system where people earning below a certain amount receive supplemental pay from the government instead of paying taxes to the government. ...
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If you're interested in the leak of the climate change emails, check out:
http://climateaudit.org/
http://wattsupwiththat.com/
Also, check out these posts by Eric Crampton, a New Zealand-based economist, who changes his mind over a series of days:
http://offsettingbehaviour.blogspot.com/
http:/.../offsettingbehaviour.blogspot.com/2009/1
http://offsettingbehaviour.blogspot.com/
climateaudit.org
For OT links and non-topical points. Editorially, I prefer that readers stick to short points and not try to solve all the problems of the world in 3 paragraphs or prove or disprove the entire apparatus of climate science in 4 sentences.
Roger Douglas Some of you may be interested in the Nobel Prize Lecture by Elinor Ostrom, available below, especially when it comes to thinking critically about Local Government.
nobelprize.org
Nobelprize.org, Official web site of the Nobel Foundation. Prize Lecture by Elinor Ostrom (28 minutes)Elinor Ostrom delivered her Prize Lecture on 8 December 2009 at Aula Magna, Stockholm University. She was introduced by Professor Bertil Holmlund, Chairman of the Economic Sciences Prize Committee.
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Go check out Gareth Morgan's ideas for a tax and spend overhall here: http://www.interest.co.nz/ratesblog/inde
The guaranteed minimum family income and flat tax is what got me sacked in the 80s, and the comprehensiv...e capital tax was outlined in my alternative plan to beat Australia by 2025.
www.interest.co.nz
Economist and fund manager Gareth Morgan, who is a member of the Tax Working Group, has proposed a radical tax restructure to the group’s final public conference that would impose a Comprehensive Capital Tax (CCT) on all land, buildings, plant and equipment to raise NZ$19 billion. ...
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The 2025 Taskforce report is out. You can read a summary here: http://www.2025taskforce.govt.nz/pdfs/20
The full version is available here: http://www.2025taskforce.govt.nz/pdfs/20
My reaction: Parts of it are very good (e.g., asset sales, education), but parts of it are re...ally lacking (maintaining health and superannuation as socialised systems run by bureaucrats and politicians is a real mistake).
www.2025taskforce.govt.nz
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Check out the story on my discussion document from 'The Weekend Herald' http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/
www.nzherald.co.nz
Sir Roger Douglas has released an
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Some of you who watched Back Benches may have seen my argument with Russel Norman over labour productivity. He claimed that in the 90s, Labour productivity was below 1 percent, where as I said it averaged around 3 percent and dropped to 1percent after Peters and Cullen had ramped up Government expenditure.
I was right.... Go here and check out page four: http://www.independenteconomics.com/asse
www.independenteconomics.com
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20 years ago today the Berlin Wall fell.
As Milton Friedman once said, "There is no more dramatic way in which people can vote than with their feet. The fact that East Germany had to build a wall to keep people from going to West Germany is striking evidence of which country had the better conditions of life."
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The full video of the VUWSA SRC is online now, and it just highlights the kind of abuse and hijinks that goes on. Go watch the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQZgPljtH
Roger Douglas Go check out the ongoing nefarious activities of VUWSA, who are trying to void the meeting which saw a majority of students present vote in favour of my Bill.
www.kiwiblog.co.nz
Certain people at VUWSA are so aghast that their official policy is now to support VSM, they are planning to illegally overturn the result? How do you do that?