Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article Following on from my previous post on the futility of government intervention in the case of obesity, the Herald obligingly provides this piece of on-topic spam: Support high for GST trim Political momentum for removing GST from healthy food is increasing with both [...]

I have been following the credit card “scandal” with great interest but little shock. My only comment is that I am surprised anyone is surprised by this. What we are witnessing is the natural behaviour of a human being granted access to somebody else’s money. Although some limits might be placed on the expenditure by [...]

I am not a big fan of GST. I appreciate it is a consumption tax and therefore inherently much fairer because it taxes all people, equally. I also understand that it has a small positive effect on savings, as it discourages spending (a little). The reason I am not a fan is entirely personal – [...]

I find it quite depressing to read all the utter drivel from Labour and it’s left wing crony blogs, harping on about how the tax cuts to “rich” people (those earning over 70,000, apparently) are worth more that the tax cuts to the poor. Are these people stupid or something? Of course the cuts for [...]

Idiot/Savant (well, just Idiot, really) posts on John Key’s comment on the politics of envy, so clearly beloved by that bloke who leads Labour, whatever his name is. That’s the clear message of John Key in saying that we should not be jealous that the rich will get massive tax cuts while everyone else gets crumbs. [...]

I’m willing to bet that there was a nervous tinge to the laughter when John Key made his joke about being on the Tuhoe “menu”. Everyone there would have instantly spotted that it was a very politically incorrect remark, for a Prime Minister. True to form, the left wing blogs have spent the day making [...]

An OECD report shows that New Zealand has almost the lowest “Tax wedge” (Individual tax as a percentage of labour costs) in the OECD. Enter Russell Norman attempting to claim that “the report showed the Government was misleading people that New Zealand had high taxes, to justify tax cuts for the highest-earners”. Unfortunately, the Herald [...]

In a move that defies all logic, the FDA advisory panel investigating the contamination of Rotavirus vaccine with pig virus has recommended that vaccine use be continued because “The vaccines offer a clear public health benefit that far outweighs a “theoretical” risk from PCV (Porcine Circo-virus)”. How very reassuring. Not. PCV type 1 was found [...]

This is a picture of the Greeks protesting against austerity. And here is a picture of New Zealanders protesting against prosperity (AKA mining in conservation land) There are a number of obvious similarities. Both protest groups are dominated by the left. Both protest groups are protesting the direct result of a decade of left-wing government [...]

Gordon Brown’s gaffe is the main news in the UK. I notice a curious silence in the Left-wing blogosphere about it, except for the odious No Right Turn who thinks Brown was justified in calling Gillian Duffy (66) a bigot. Malcolm goes one further and uses the term “Bigoted Racist” for good measure. Apparently saying [...]