Jack Tame should enrol in a Cost-Benefit Analysis course (and refrain from advising the government).
In a prominent One News editorial, Jack Tame asks "Why don't politicians act on our most harmful drug?" He says, "A study by Otago...
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rmacculloch
Jun 29, 20233 min read
On Penlink Tolls: Transport Minister Parker is Right to want them; National is wrong to scrap them
Regards Auckland's new Penlink road, upon which construction has begun, making access to the Whangaparoa peninsula easier, it was...
rmacculloch
Jun 28, 20232 min read
The Productivity Commission's Inquiry on "disadvantage" misled the Cabinet (and the Kiwi Public)
The Productivity Commission has just released an "Inquiry" on disadvantage, poverty & inequality. Isn't that meant to be the job of the...
rmacculloch
Jun 27, 20232 min read
Harvard Business School is caught in fraud allegations
Barely a week goes by when someone in NZ tries to sound knowledgeable & authoritative by saying something like, "Well, a Harvard...
rmacculloch
Jun 27, 20231 min read
Kings Fund report in the UK lays bare how both the UK & NZ centralized health systems are failing
A few days a report to which the British PM has had to respond laid bare the failings of the National Health System in the UK. The...
rmacculloch
Jun 24, 20232 min read
The Titanic Submarine causes a Global Health & Safety Fight to Erupt. It is of Great Relevance to NZ
One of the planks of National & ACT's touted differences with Labour in terms of election policies is cutting "red-tape". Ironically,...
rmacculloch
Jun 21, 20232 min read
An inconvenient truth about capital gains taxes that Labour and the mainstream media covered up
The Attorney General David Parker presented the Inland Revenue "High Wealth Individual Research Project" to a gullible mainstream media...
rmacculloch
Jun 21, 20232 min read
Labour Turns on the Immigration Tap which Stuart Nash said we "could not afford to turn on".
Today Immigration Minister Woods announced a further loosening of immigration criteria, even though immigration is already hitting record...
rmacculloch
Jun 20, 20232 min read
How did the wealthiest 300 Kiwi families each make $50 million in 2021 when our economy busted?
The Inland Revenue Department's "High Wealth Individuals Research Report" states that "The Project population’s annual economic income...
rmacculloch
Jun 19, 20233 min read
The biggest issue of Election 2023 will not be debated (since both Nats & Labour have no answer)
Both our major parties agree that the single biggest issue in this election will be the cost-of-living, as predicted by DownToEarth Kiwi...
rmacculloch
Jun 18, 20231 min read
Who's being bailed at Ruapehu? Accountants. Lawyers.
Here's a photo of the latest welfare beneficiary to be supported by Labour. It's taken straight from the front page of the Price...
rmacculloch
Jun 16, 20232 min read
The Minister of Finance is in outer space, issuing nonsense statements, and should just retire
Upon release of the GDP figures yesterday confirming NZ has entered two quarters of contraction & so is in a recession, Grant Robertson...
rmacculloch
Jun 14, 20232 min read
Why haven't Educational Leaders in NZ been supporting free speech like the VC of Oxford University?
Yesterday the Vice Chancellor of Oxford University said the following about free speech - why have her equivalents in this country been...
rmacculloch
Jun 12, 20232 min read
Radio NZ's Russian editing scandal is the reason why I stopped writing for the mainstream Kiwi media
Before the scandal erupted over how Radio NZ journalists had edited stories supplied to them by Reuters - and then published them under...
rmacculloch
Jun 12, 20232 min read
Green Party Leader Shaw starts his election campaign with a promise he knows cannot be kept
Green Party Leader Shaw kicked off his election campaign by talking garbage about a topic that his Party knows little about - namely the...
rmacculloch
Jun 8, 20232 min read
The Economics behind the question of whether Auckland Council should sell its Airport shareholding
Should the Council retain its 19% shareholding in Auckland Airport? Reading the arguments that Councillors were giving regards whether or...
rmacculloch
Jun 8, 20232 min read
The Auditor General gave incorrect legal advice on Councillor Fairey's Auckland Airport shareholding
Auckland Councillor Julie Fairey, who is the wife of under-fire Cabinet minister Michael Wood, has been advised by the Auditor-General...
rmacculloch
Jun 5, 20232 min read
To All Talented Up-and-Coming Young Kiwis: If you want social recognition, go live in the UK or US.
The "Kings Birthday Honours" that our Labour Government has awarded reads like something out of the 1950s, or maybe more like the 19th...
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