Perhaps the system might work better if medical students who use the race card to get into med school actually went back to work in areas of Maori health and areas of high density Maori populations. That was the original basis for this race based policy of acceptance into medical school. Would really be interested in the numbers, as the limited number I know all work in the most profitable areas in medicine.
People like you who seem to think its all right to steal, commit FRAUD and be blatantly dishonest, is what the matter with NZ. Which part of the definition of FRAUD below dont you get. People like her who steal from their Landlord, steal from their employer, steal from their sporting club and people like you who think its OK make me sick. Obviously you are not a Landlord, Employer or Volunteer on the committee of a club. Im all of them....Change your outlook its WRONG.
Santa Claus....Like the idiot who wins lotto knows, nothing about money and becomes the big family hero only to waste the lot....Shane Jones is a joke. Hes running round the country telling people to give him projects to spend the money on, he cant find enough and is telling business hes looking bad....this is a fact, and those in business know Im telling the truth just ask Dunedin about the proposed water front development and the Jones slush fund they are dipping into.
I believe the main reason for New Zealanders love of property is that no matter what happens you still have it. Unlike the share market crash of 87, the tech stock crash of the late 90s, the bio tech crash of early 2000s and the finance industry meltdown which crippled my parents. They keep harping on about investing in the productive sector, share market , industry etc. But guess what when you have assets but little free cash and find a good investment the only thing banks want is property as security.....there in lies the problem. And in terms of dealing with banks with all this anti money laundering, having to get assets valued, proof of income all must be recent its never been harder. So just bury it in land and buildings and forget about it.
Means testing is rubbish. At todays interest rates by giving the pension to one but not the other you are givings someone a $600,000 nest egg they have not saved Yet those of us who have saved get penalized for delayed enjoyment of our money Why bother saving, might as well spend spend spend and then sit back and watch mugs like us pay. Get stuffed to a means test we have earned it and it is up to us how we spend it my guess ours will simply go to the children or grand children to help with their mortgages or education. But if I want to drive down the road singing and throwing it out the window that is MY choice. Theres plenty of warning about whats going to happen in the future so get saving.
Good for them when things go up what about setting loses aside against future profits you cant have it both ways.Labour is really struggling and this is just in the too hard basket for those inexperienced in politics and government. Sorry Jacinta the halo is fading as the realities of world events, business confidence wains (thats right Jacinta people are slower paying bills, watching the pennies)Inflation on anything you want seems to be running at 2% and anything you need about 8. Petrol, power, food, insurance, rates, education.....So now they are in trouble to calm the waters her stooge Cullen backs down as he would love to do it big time to hurt the people he hates but knows currently Labour would commit political suicide with their lack of support from those who actually make New Zealands income.
When rates go up by 65% over 10 years (not 53% as they conveniently forgot to compound the yearly increase plus gst component) we should all celebrate we had a Santa Claus council lead by people with no skin in the game. Council you are a JOKE. The on going money machine called the rate payer.
Christchurch Mayor Lianne Dalziel says the hall budget blowout has disappointed councillors, but she does not regret approving restoration.Naturally its not her money.....If she were a private developer she would not be able to sleep at night. Bet she sleeps like a baby as she dreams of all the lovely socialist things the rate payers are expected to fund. The never ending bottomless pit of money.....where is the tipping point.
It just keeps going with these idiots. Its Xmas day every day in Christchurch with the socialist financially illiterate socialist Santa Clauses in charge.....Its April 1 every day in this town. This is a Government responsibility NOT THE RATE PAYERS.
Shanubell Equable is the same guy who thought owning a home was a dumb idea until he had a family....just think hes a bit of a listen to me but Ive got no money and a theorist.
Means testing is rubbish. At todays interest rates by giving the pension to one but not the other you are givings someone a $600,000 nest egg they have not saved Yet those of us who have saved get penalized for delayed enjoyment of our money Why bother saving. might aw well spend spend spend and then sit back and watch mugs like us pay. Get stuffed to a means test we have earned it and it is up to us how we spend it my guess ours will simply got to the children or grand children to help with their mortgages or education. But if I want to drive down the road singing and throwing it out the window that is MY choice. Theres plenty of warning about whats going to happen in the future so get saving.
Sad when the player thinks they are bigger than the game. Terrible display. She says it sexist, what could be more sexist than expecting equal pay for 2/3 of the work. Most womens games are a one sided walk over. Have a look at the work the men must do for the whole tournament. The money to pay the women is generated by the pulling power of the audience for the mens game. If they split off the women to their own tournaments like golf the audiences both on court and internationally on pay television could not justify equal pay. Im hoping to go to the Aussie open for the first time and want to see 2-3 hours of nail biting tennis not a 46 minute one sided 6/1 /6/0 mismatches. The results you can all see are in the stats from the tournaments.Its about competition, quality of play, value for money, sorry Serena the womens game just does not deliver. The only sexist bit here is that you are paid the same, now that is sexist.
Just give everyone certainty and time to plan. But this MUST BE UNIVERSAL, as assets and income are in most cases the result of saving and deferred enjoyment. Why should someone get a pension after pissing away their income on cars, holidays, clothes and dinners out over a lifetime and then some who didnt do this gets penalized.....Its about certainty, just let me know.... if you want to means test, fine but let me know so I can go on a spending spree now.
Went there 30 years ago and thought Id bought the cafe when the bill arrived, even then it felt like a sit down tax after fight the hordes of tourists. Just think 20 million Chinese last year alone got into an income bracket to travel internationally.....We may have to do the same here or we could be overrun. I fear in the future most will just take the virtual tour and only the very wealthy will be able to see the real thing.
Rates.....a wealth tax, start calling it that. One 80 year old in Burnside $3800 in WT. 8 living in Linwood $2200....whats fair about that. We are on the Titanic and while council re arrange the deck chairs were are going down due to this unfair , unsustainable Wealth Tax. People wake up 5% compounded year on year....people will not be able to live in their own homes in retirement. Rent from the bank for 25 years then rent from the blood sucking Santas in the council till your dying day. Air BNB only came into existence due to a rip off the tourist mentality world wide.
So they fail to see the south Island at all......the most spectacular scenery in New Zealand.....very balanced tour. Their lasting memories of this trip will be side ways rain, the smell of sulphur and just another small city that things its New York, London, Shanghai or Paris which it is not and apparently, according to reports, that has it population living rough...please make Queen street and Otara a must visit. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to visit New Zealand poor them. Thank god they have been here before.
Simple message SKY. Price is one thing but lazy is another. Self promotion in advertising space from overseas transmissions is rubbish. Why would a 57 year old male watching a natural history documentary want constant interruptions about the next netball game and what s...t 6 year old movie is available about two kids in LA falling in love with a dog. Followed by an update of the doco Ive been watching that takes longer than the next bit of the doco before we go back to the bloody netball advert and another movie promo I was one of your first subscribers sold on the basis of NO advertising. Fellet (CEO) you are to old, move on. You have killed the goose through laziness.
They can spend a million lighting some trees in the gardens, but say they cant afford expert opinion. What actual expertise sits round that table......with exception of a few the rest are as described below. Your Wealth tax system (rates) is broken and until you face the facts that to many in this town are living here and not contributing their share (and its not the top to middle suburbs) we are on a one way street to a disaster. What actual financial nous do most of these people have with exception of a couple, none. No personal evidence of any financial success in life and no skin in the Christchurch game. If only it was pay peanuts get Monkeys we pay a lot and got Monkeys.
No matter what it is there will always be those who want to close something many enjoy to save just a few.Gambling, Horse racing, alcohol, Driving above 10 kph..... I know lets stop domestic violence by banning having a partner.Lets stop religious wars by banning religion. Crazy zealots everywhere today. If someone whats to self destruct they will fine a way with or without a Casino, Race track or Pub
Try a life time of hard work and saving. If you dont want the house find somewhere else,. Oh thats right we want a palace for a pittance. Put in any rules you like but eventually market forces prevail, landlords sell, rents go up, property values go down.....who cares in the end youll get what you pay for and if it works people will invest in rentals if not theyll invest else where....but the market will dictate not Government or tenants.
Great gran dad bought a section for 5 pounds, built an A frame after 5 years of camping in a tent then a caravan. All the family chipped in to work on the property, this happen for 4 generations, it was a holiday Bach used by the extended family. It was never intended as a money maker, its was never rented out. Rates were reasonable.Great gran dad liked the view of this undeveloped area by the lakes edge and the family over generations did too (by the way gran dad worked 3 jobs to pay for it) Skip forward, the same Bach now called a holiday home is worth 1.5 million. Its still not rented and enjoyed by 6 families and then guess what Taxjinda and the socialist come along and say hey you have to pay capital gains now on a property which is not a money maker and could be in the family for another 3 generations....but no the green eyed socialists want you to pay a tax, capital gains on an asset which is not and has never been an investment, its just something someone who worked hard for, to give people a nice time in their time away from paying tax.....and there in lies the irony. Socialists get stuffed.
Were simply selling....sick to death of hearing this rubbish. You wait thousands of mum and dad landlords will bail, then see what happens to the market. Our tenants who are building are actually landlords themselves in the different city agree, its all in the too hard basket...next theyll want us to cook Sunday lunch.
RICH buy new European style and finesse. WANNA BE SNOBS buy second hand European just out of warranty but dont suffer the depreciation of the rich, who just dont care. SUBURBAN TRY HARDS buy old European and go broke fixing them while thinking they are impressing the neighbors. The RICH dont care what happen to theirs as they drive off in this years model and the WANNA BEES are laughing that they could palm off their old, now embarrassing load of trouble, 3 models out of date, now no longer impressing the neighbor, who thinks they have fallen on hard time by not updating. THE SMART are buying Japanese, having forgiven WW2, due to the reliability and price of their get from A to B cars. They have copied all the innovation of the European and improved it. The other Asian car producers are improving the Japanese innovations to get back at them, for WW2.......AND THE TOTALLY TASTELESS buy American, no style ,no finesse, just the steering wheel on the right hand side of a moving block of flats that screams I live in a McMansion and the kids want mullets just like dad in the 90s when he met Shona...... Cars, yes the head always rules...now theres a Tui billboard. ....
"Waitangi Tribunal investigates sick, racist health system that 'fails MÄori'",
Perhaps the system might work better if medical students who use the race card to get into med school actually went back to work in areas of Maori health and areas of high density Maori populations. That was the original basis for this race based policy of acceptance into medical school. Would really be interested in the numbers, as the limited number I know all work in the most profitable areas in medicine.
Tenant to give landlord Airbnb profits after running secret Taupo guesthouse
People like you who seem to think its all right to steal, commit FRAUD and be blatantly dishonest, is what the matter with NZ. Which part of the definition of FRAUD below dont you get. People like her who steal from their Landlord, steal from their employer, steal from their sporting club and people like you who think its OK make me sick. Obviously you are not a Landlord, Employer or Volunteer on the committee of a club. Im all of them....Change your outlook its WRONG.
Shane Jones $10m Westland dairy loan could turn out to be costly for New Zealand
Santa Claus....Like the idiot who wins lotto knows, nothing about money and becomes the big family hero only to waste the lot....Shane Jones is a joke. Hes running round the country telling people to give him projects to spend the money on, he cant find enough and is telling business hes looking bad....this is a fact, and those in business know Im telling the truth just ask Dunedin about the proposed water front development and the Jones slush fund they are dipping into.
"Christchurch invites investors and newcomers to 'explore the opportunity'",
How much this time for the consultants..... you are a joke.
Capital gains tax punishes hard work
I believe the main reason for New Zealanders love of property is that no matter what happens you still have it. Unlike the share market crash of 87, the tech stock crash of the late 90s, the bio tech crash of early 2000s and the finance industry meltdown which crippled my parents. They keep harping on about investing in the productive sector, share market , industry etc. But guess what when you have assets but little free cash and find a good investment the only thing banks want is property as security.....there in lies the problem. And in terms of dealing with banks with all this anti money laundering, having to get assets valued, proof of income all must be recent its never been harder. So just bury it in land and buildings and forget about it.
The pension doesn't give me much, but I am content
Means testing is rubbish. At todays interest rates by giving the pension to one but not the other you are givings someone a $600,000 nest egg they have not saved Yet those of us who have saved get penalized for delayed enjoyment of our money Why bother saving, might as well spend spend spend and then sit back and watch mugs like us pay. Get stuffed to a means test we have earned it and it is up to us how we spend it my guess ours will simply go to the children or grand children to help with their mortgages or education. But if I want to drive down the road singing and throwing it out the window that is MY choice. Theres plenty of warning about whats going to happen in the future so get saving.
Capital gains tax debate not over, Grant Robertson suggests
Good for them when things go up what about setting loses aside against future profits you cant have it both ways.Labour is really struggling and this is just in the too hard basket for those inexperienced in politics and government. Sorry Jacinta the halo is fading as the realities of world events, business confidence wains (thats right Jacinta people are slower paying bills, watching the pennies)Inflation on anything you want seems to be running at 2% and anything you need about 8. Petrol, power, food, insurance, rates, education.....So now they are in trouble to calm the waters her stooge Cullen backs down as he would love to do it big time to hurt the people he hates but knows currently Labour would commit political suicide with their lack of support from those who actually make New Zealands income.
Christchurch City Council moves to extend living wage
When rates go up by 65% over 10 years (not 53% as they conveniently forgot to compound the yearly increase plus gst component) we should all celebrate we had a Santa Claus council lead by people with no skin in the game. Council you are a JOKE. The on going money machine called the rate payer.
Council tried to keep multimillion-dollar Christchurch Town Hall budget blowout quiet
Christchurch Mayor Lianne Dalziel says the hall budget blowout has disappointed councillors, but she does not regret approving restoration.Naturally its not her money.....If she were a private developer she would not be able to sleep at night. Bet she sleeps like a baby as she dreams of all the lovely socialist things the rate payers are expected to fund. The never ending bottomless pit of money.....where is the tipping point.
Prostitutes Collective gets $40,000 from Christchurch City Council to help sex workers
It just keeps going with these idiots. Its Xmas day every day in Christchurch with the socialist financially illiterate socialist Santa Clauses in charge.....Its April 1 every day in this town. This is a Government responsibility NOT THE RATE PAYERS.
"High prices new normal: Here's how petrol could hit $3 a litre",
Shanubell Equable is the same guy who thought owning a home was a dumb idea until he had a family....just think hes a bit of a listen to me but Ive got no money and a theorist.
Editorial: A change is coming for what it means to be retired
Means testing is rubbish. At todays interest rates by giving the pension to one but not the other you are givings someone a $600,000 nest egg they have not saved Yet those of us who have saved get penalized for delayed enjoyment of our money Why bother saving. might aw well spend spend spend and then sit back and watch mugs like us pay. Get stuffed to a means test we have earned it and it is up to us how we spend it my guess ours will simply got to the children or grand children to help with their mortgages or education. But if I want to drive down the road singing and throwing it out the window that is MY choice. Theres plenty of warning about whats going to happen in the future so get saving.
Serena Williams fined $26,000 for US Open outburst
Sad when the player thinks they are bigger than the game. Terrible display. She says it sexist, what could be more sexist than expecting equal pay for 2/3 of the work. Most womens games are a one sided walk over. Have a look at the work the men must do for the whole tournament. The money to pay the women is generated by the pulling power of the audience for the mens game. If they split off the women to their own tournaments like golf the audiences both on court and internationally on pay television could not justify equal pay. Im hoping to go to the Aussie open for the first time and want to see 2-3 hours of nail biting tennis not a 46 minute one sided 6/1 /6/0 mismatches. The results you can all see are in the stats from the tournaments.Its about competition, quality of play, value for money, sorry Serena the womens game just does not deliver. The only sexist bit here is that you are paid the same, now that is sexist.
Inheritance tax good economics, and the politics may be better than they seem
Why save in the first place lets all just spend as we earn and sit back and wait for someone else to pick up the bill.Pension is not a benefit.
Call to link NZ Super age to health expectancy could mean working until 70
Just give everyone certainty and time to plan. But this MUST BE UNIVERSAL, as assets and income are in most cases the result of saving and deferred enjoyment. Why should someone get a pension after pissing away their income on cars, holidays, clothes and dinners out over a lifetime and then some who didnt do this gets penalized.....Its about certainty, just let me know.... if you want to means test, fine but let me know so I can go on a spending spree now.
"Christchurch invites investors and newcomers to 'explore the opportunity'",
Lipstick on a pig....Its still a pig. Council get on and do your job...get things finished, things the rate payers pay you for.
2 coffees and 2 waters? That'll be $74 please
Went there 30 years ago and thought Id bought the cafe when the bill arrived, even then it felt like a sit down tax after fight the hordes of tourists. Just think 20 million Chinese last year alone got into an income bracket to travel internationally.....We may have to do the same here or we could be overrun. I fear in the future most will just take the virtual tour and only the very wealthy will be able to see the real thing.
Christchurch City Council nutting out how to apply business rate as Airbnb popularity surges
Rates.....a wealth tax, start calling it that. One 80 year old in Burnside $3800 in WT. 8 living in Linwood $2200....whats fair about that. We are on the Titanic and while council re arrange the deck chairs were are going down due to this unfair , unsustainable Wealth Tax. People wake up 5% compounded year on year....people will not be able to live in their own homes in retirement. Rent from the bank for 25 years then rent from the blood sucking Santas in the council till your dying day. Air BNB only came into existence due to a rip off the tourist mentality world wide.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to visit New Zealand
So they fail to see the south Island at all......the most spectacular scenery in New Zealand.....very balanced tour. Their lasting memories of this trip will be side ways rain, the smell of sulphur and just another small city that things its New York, London, Shanghai or Paris which it is not and apparently, according to reports, that has it population living rough...please make Queen street and Otara a must visit. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to visit New Zealand poor them. Thank god they have been here before.
Sky TV's figures suggest it can improve its frightening trajectory
Simple message SKY. Price is one thing but lazy is another. Self promotion in advertising space from overseas transmissions is rubbish. Why would a 57 year old male watching a natural history documentary want constant interruptions about the next netball game and what s...t 6 year old movie is available about two kids in LA falling in love with a dog. Followed by an update of the doco Ive been watching that takes longer than the next bit of the doco before we go back to the bloody netball advert and another movie promo I was one of your first subscribers sold on the basis of NO advertising. Fellet (CEO) you are to old, move on. You have killed the goose through laziness.
Winter freeze on house prices in Nelson
Brilliant answer
Capital gains tax punishes hard work
They are property investors and have to pay tax, capital gains already exists. People who own nothing should do some reading.
Councillors accused of 'sticking heads in sand' as asset sales talks hit stumbling block
They can spend a million lighting some trees in the gardens, but say they cant afford expert opinion. What actual expertise sits round that table......with exception of a few the rest are as described below. Your Wealth tax system (rates) is broken and until you face the facts that to many in this town are living here and not contributing their share (and its not the top to middle suburbs) we are on a one way street to a disaster. What actual financial nous do most of these people have with exception of a couple, none. No personal evidence of any financial success in life and no skin in the Christchurch game. If only it was pay peanuts get Monkeys we pay a lot and got Monkeys.
Claim lives 'destroyed' by gambling as casino seeks licence renewal
No matter what it is there will always be those who want to close something many enjoy to save just a few.Gambling, Horse racing, alcohol, Driving above 10 kph..... I know lets stop domestic violence by banning having a partner.Lets stop religious wars by banning religion. Crazy zealots everywhere today. If someone whats to self destruct they will fine a way with or without a Casino, Race track or Pub
Rental properties could end up better than landlords homes
Try a life time of hard work and saving. If you dont want the house find somewhere else,. Oh thats right we want a palace for a pittance. Put in any rules you like but eventually market forces prevail, landlords sell, rents go up, property values go down.....who cares in the end youll get what you pay for and if it works people will invest in rentals if not theyll invest else where....but the market will dictate not Government or tenants.
Executive decision: The movers and shakers running Christchurch City Council
Green eyed monster I fear...bet they could do your job but could you do theirs?
Johnny Moore: Rebuild roosters hurting CBD hospitality
On the money
Capital gains tax punishes hard work
Great gran dad bought a section for 5 pounds, built an A frame after 5 years of camping in a tent then a caravan. All the family chipped in to work on the property, this happen for 4 generations, it was a holiday Bach used by the extended family. It was never intended as a money maker, its was never rented out. Rates were reasonable.Great gran dad liked the view of this undeveloped area by the lakes edge and the family over generations did too (by the way gran dad worked 3 jobs to pay for it) Skip forward, the same Bach now called a holiday home is worth 1.5 million. Its still not rented and enjoyed by 6 families and then guess what Taxjinda and the socialist come along and say hey you have to pay capital gains now on a property which is not a money maker and could be in the family for another 3 generations....but no the green eyed socialists want you to pay a tax, capital gains on an asset which is not and has never been an investment, its just something someone who worked hard for, to give people a nice time in their time away from paying tax.....and there in lies the irony. Socialists get stuffed.
Rental properties could end up better than landlords homes
Were simply selling....sick to death of hearing this rubbish. You wait thousands of mum and dad landlords will bail, then see what happens to the market. Our tenants who are building are actually landlords themselves in the different city agree, its all in the too hard basket...next theyll want us to cook Sunday lunch.
Inside Dot's incredible Oamaru castle
Fantastic dream....unfortunately Taxsinda will see this and Cullen will come up with some new Tax for this hard work.
I don't mind car snobbery, but let's get the brands right
RICH buy new European style and finesse. WANNA BE SNOBS buy second hand European just out of warranty but dont suffer the depreciation of the rich, who just dont care. SUBURBAN TRY HARDS buy old European and go broke fixing them while thinking they are impressing the neighbors. The RICH dont care what happen to theirs as they drive off in this years model and the WANNA BEES are laughing that they could palm off their old, now embarrassing load of trouble, 3 models out of date, now no longer impressing the neighbor, who thinks they have fallen on hard time by not updating. THE SMART are buying Japanese, having forgiven WW2, due to the reliability and price of their get from A to B cars. They have copied all the innovation of the European and improved it. The other Asian car producers are improving the Japanese innovations to get back at them, for WW2.......AND THE TOTALLY TASTELESS buy American, no style ,no finesse, just the steering wheel on the right hand side of a moving block of flats that screams I live in a McMansion and the kids want mullets just like dad in the 90s when he met Shona...... Cars, yes the head always rules...now theres a Tui billboard. ....
River of protesters show up to support flatwater lake for Christchurch red zone
Have you bothered to read the reports?