Tuesday, June 9, 2015

The myth of "Retirement Savings"

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Kia-ora Advocates of Kiwisaver and other funded retirement savings schemes perpetuate the fundamental misunderstanding that "convent...
Thursday, July 10, 2014

The real aims of National’s “Education” policy.

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Kia-ora If the aims of National/ACT’s education policy were, genuinely, to to improve the learning, education and career choices for our...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

UBI (3). Taxes, income and Welfare.

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Kia-ora An often repeated argument against increases in welfare, including UBI, minimum wages or payments to alleviate poverty, is that it...

UBI (2) Why should we push for a UBI? (Universal basic income).

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Why a UBI? Firstly. To overturn some paradigms: That a great many people should lead poor and constricted lives, so a very few can be ri...

UBI (1). Memes and Paradigms.

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This post is a follow up from.  http://thestandard.org.nz/ubi/ The way human beings process information means that  memes and slogans  ...
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UBI

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Thanks to NZ Femme who put up this link. https://decorrespondent.nl/541/why-we-should-give-free-money-to-everyone/31639050894-e44e2c00 “‘...
Thursday, December 12, 2013

How to: Pick an Excuse for Not doing Anything About Poverty

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Kia-ora Right wing, excuses reasons, for not doing anything about children in poverty. 1. "It costs too much". 2. "Ta...
Thursday, September 5, 2013

Universal Basic Income. UBI.

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Kia-ora The concept of UBI has a long history in New Zealand. Of course, we already have a UBI for those over 65.  Which has been ext...
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

New Zealand Joins the Roll of Shame.

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New Zealand joins the roll of shame. With recent legislation New Zealand's Government continues it's shameful attacks on human rig...
Sunday, May 19, 2013

An Alternative Budget.

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Kia-ora An alternative Budget, From Matt McCarten.   Matt has posed this as a "left wing" budget. However many of the ideas w...