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It’s business (taxes) time (opens the original)
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Economists and business leaders, alongside a rather large contingent of politicians, talkback radio hosts, newspaper opinion writers, and least-favourite uncles, tell us that company tax should be a Sacred Cow. We are taught that high company taxes are anathema to economic growth and—by extension—social flourishing, etc.Still, we shouldn’t believe everything we’re taught, because what seem like entirely rational incentives can lead to some pretty questionable outcomes if fed into the chaos of hu
Credit, where it's due (opens the original)
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Are taxes government income? Maybe, but not in the way you think.Government income, by definition, is money pooled to be spent on all of us, for all of our benefit. So, the first thing to know is that it doesn’t behave like ‘income’, because we all—the recipients and the payers—get to decide how it is spent.A representative democracy means our vote doesn’t choose the spending exactly, but rather the people who spend on our collective behalf. While it might seem like a politician that you persona
Social Media Ban-anza (opens the original)
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Ergh! There are a lot of fucking stupid people with fucking stupid takes about these social media bans for kids. And, if hearing that enrages you and makes you want to write some sarcastic comment, please go ahead.Seriously. Your deranged and abusive comments are great for metrics! The more I get, the more likely this post will end up in some Substack Digest, or reposted on another internet spot next week. And—you know—I’m just as inhumanely-bonded to that sort of validation as the next person.
The 1st way was (mostly) ok (opens the original)
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There’s been recent talk in my orbit about us entering a second 3rd-way, through ‘abundance’ and ‘teal’1 politics. Even if you’re not familiar with the phrase “3rd way” in politics, you’re no doubt familiar with the characters from its story: Tony Blair, Bill Clinton (and, arguably, in a sign of the things to come, Aotearoa’s own David Lange). Politicians who were left-wing socially but wanted the solutions to social ills to be found by the private sector.
Renewable energy is class warfare (opens the original)
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It’s fair to wonder, given we are told near-daily that generating energy via solar panels and wind farms and hydro is significantly cheaper than generating, and let me emphasise this, exactly the same electrons via fossil fuels, why we are not just going all-in on renewable energy, everywhere, all-at-once? After all, we could ignore all the arguments about climate change, premature deaths and hospitalisations from emission pollution, logistical inefficiency, political corruption, propping up aut
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