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Hipkins: tax, borrow and spend.
The fundamental problem is that the population has discovered it can vote itself the treasury.
Once an entitlement has been passed, it is near impossible to reverse. For example, then Opposition Leader John Key stated that “Working for Families” was “Communism by stealth”. Yet, when he was PM, he did nothing to abolish it.
Why? Because it would have been political suicide.
I have written up a thought experiment which I called the Taxpayer Republic. The gist of it is only those who pay net tax get suffrage. If more entitlements are given from the generosity of the taxpayers, the pool of voting taxpayers shrinks in accordance. A hopeful curb to politicians who are overly generous with other people’s money.
The Taxpayer Republic: A Thought Experiment for Post-Democratic Governance – No Minister
Of course, there was some pushback that I suggested laissez-faire capitalism was not possible—IMHO such is possible only under Anarcho-Capitalism.
I followed that criticism (which I think is fair) with:
Ways to Wealth: Profit and Plunder – No Minister
Where I warn what happens when a State does not prioritise military considerations—the plunder motive will come to the fore.
I am in no ways wedded to my thought experiment, so feel free to highlight flaws—preferably with ways to improve the thought experiment.
Labour created massive problems by printing, borrowing and spending dump trucks full of money, with the usual pocket pissing that saw many at the top get filthy rich.
It is always about money. Ask Ardern. She is valued at over $50m
Thanks Colinxy & here in the same vein, you may find interesting.
An interesting article, fable? point of view put to Davy Crockett.
…… the government ought to have in the Treasury no more than enough for its legitimate purposes. …..
……. The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man, particularly under our system of collecting revenue by a tariff, [tax] which reaches every man in the country, no matter how poor he may be, …….
http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/im/magnus/misc/nytg.html
As even Davy Crockett had to ponder long & hard about the munifence practiced by government to some others.
It is to find the principles, to really grow & understand, where people so often conveniently forget if they ever figured some of these things out.
This runs deep, as the first true communist I ever met was my mother, who so often would take from one, in the name of sharing, or hold back, to placate another sibling for the so called good & control of the family/community.
So it would seem our so called representatives have started from the cradle & so are able to take to the system like a duckling to water.
Grown-up? Reasoning? Never or long gone, for their avantage.
That was quite fascinating, thanks. Though I think that the population has grown so used to entitlements that not even Davy Crockett, could he even be elected today, could roll them back.
My thought experiment was to try and think of way that could keep the generosity of spending other people’s money in check, and therefore not rely on the characters of people like Horatio Bunce to admonish willing politicians. Most politicians these days would be most unwilling to change their opinions unless the person in the mirror said otherwise.
If you come to YSB and continue to put links to your site it would be common courtesy to put a link to YSB on your site.
I see you have a few good links and a few crap ones
’tis done.
No Minister – Laughing at Our Elites
Ahh I might have to spend some time here. However, the first site I open is YSB. Always.
Thanks for that. See, I knew talking to yourself has some benefit to others.😇
I’ll talk to Tom about it. I have no control in that.
I knew someone like that. Used to talk to himself while looking at a blank wall
You were looking at a mirror.
I’ll see myself out
Nancy Pelosi to retire from Congress after nearly four decades in office“I want you, my fellow San Franciscans, to be the first to know I will not be seeking reelection to Congress,” she said in a video statement pointedly aimed at her hometown constituents.
“With a grateful heart, I look forward to my final year of service as your proud representative.”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/nancy-pelosi-to-retire-from-congress-after-nearly-four-decades-in-office/HGFRQMFQVRB23DJ5EV2OZJYWAI/
what a joke she is.
Look no further for proof that all countries need Term limits on their elected representatives in government. If you go into politics to “serve the people” then you should do it in a timely manner. 3 or 4 terms will be sufficient. If not you are not up to the job and should resign and let someone else have a go
Collins, Peters for a start.
You forgot Brownlee the useless one.
I did, slipped my mind. there’s more that you could add that even if they don’t meet the threshold are bloody useless anyway.
And Mallard, Dunne, Goff, Nick Smith & Annette King. Some of the most useless, incompetent wastes of oxygen to walk the planet have spent their futile existences parked up in Parliament doing fuck all that’s useful.
Nick Smith the complete and utter waste of oxygen that he is some how managed to get re-elected in Nelson, some people never seem to learn
Dr Smith
Troughing since 1990
non stop
Surely a clue is that he had a complete mental breakdown at the end of 2002 ..
Not fit for any office.
Fully agree with you. How ever seems Nelson has a memory issue with things like that and a love of putting retards into jobs they shouldnt have
i thought nelson would elect drug fucked hippies run the place?
Na thats Mot/takaka
Wouldn’t wana be in this fellas shoes.
“Jevon McSkimming pleaded guilty on Thursday to possessing child sexual exploitation and bestiality material.
He was the country’s second-highest ranking police officer, overseeing road policing and operational services – he was also secretly watching child sexual exploitation and bestiality on his work devices.”
the issue is
how did he have all this porn on a work computer and it was undetected for some time
and therefore
how many other device in nz poolice, or other govt depts are NOT swept for this material.
leaving lots of active devious devices with a similar bent ?
Maybe he liked goats and boys that would have been acceptable to the Muslim loving greens and labour party who appointed him
he should be right to stand for Greens co-leader in 2029
😼 😏
Will get the minimum jail sentence because of his early guilty plea. It would be good if he could find some ngati bullshit blood and find a sky fairy to dazzle the judge with///
… could find some ngati bullshit blood …
yep yep
A bit old to be claiming he has a great future in rugby/rugby league
so needs other BS .
He will have a hard life behind bars, even if he is given protection.
They will get to him..
They will get to him..
And …. ?
Surely someone that perverted has been a nasty creep along the way to the top .
No sympathy .
would have been a shit to others .
He kept the company of mickey Bush .
He’d probably enjoy anything they did to him.
…..”They will get to him”…..
How? If the weirdo gets a custodial sentence, which I doubt, at his arrival at prison he will be assessed for risks eg suicide, reprisal attacks, gang affiliations.
If there’s a chance that he’ll be targeted because of his past or his convictions he will be segregated from other prisoners. He would then be locked down in an individual cell for 23 hours a day & any contact with others will be supervised & restricted to other “at risk” losers. Contact with the mainstream prison population would be non existent.
Corrections take their duty to keep detainees alive quite seriously.
They WILL get him
I disagree but it’s an academic question anyway. He was remanded on bail.
What does that tell you of the likelihood or not of a custodial sentence?
Perhaps just occaisionally the CTV should be adccidentally switched of whilst the officers watch match of the day.
Get the company managing the facility where Epstein was detained, on the job.
They better have a food tester.
Lol. You are delusional. Use ya brain. They WILL get to him.
I know they used to put them all together at Rolleston. Don’t know if that is still the case.
Anyone interested about conditions & behaviour in NZ prisons may want to beg, borrow, buy or steal a copy of Rhonda Hapi-Smith’s book ‘Inside the Wire’. She was until 2017 a prison officer usually based at Mangaroa.
It’s not a great literary masterpiece but a good factual account of what goes down.
Put him next door to the chch shooter!
He was a Labour appointee so no surprises there.
They must have groomed him at one of their earlier sex camp/conference sites
Nah, he’d of already been a creepy little weirdo full of bravado and arrogance.
I feel sorry for his wife/family. Nobody expects that level of disgusting.
It will be interesting to see what happens here. The length of the sentence this pervert gets will show us just how deep the rot is in the legal system. I reckon he’ll serve time but it will be the minimum in a very cushy place.
Some five star hotel?
With goats on tap.
Jesus and Moses are playing golf. Jesus’s ball lands just before the water hazard. He pulls a nine-iron from his bag. Moses says, “A nine-iron? It would take a miracle to get the ball across the water and onto the green.”
Jesus says, “Nonsense! Arnie Palmer did it, no miracles. And I can do it without miracles, too!” He swings, hits the ball, and moments later there is a splash.
Jesus waves to Moses. Moses gestures and the waters part. Jesus walks out, retrieves the ball and returns to shore. Moses lowers his arms and the waters close.
Jesus places the ball back where it had landed. He lines up the nine-iron. Moses says, “Not the nine-iron again?”
Jesus says, “If Arnie Palmer can do it, I can do it.” Swing, splash. Moses parts the waters, Jesus retrieves the ball.
The third time is a repeat of the previous two.
The fourth time, Moses says, “I’m exhausted. Get it yourself”.
So Jesus walks out on the water, reaches down, grabs the ball, and starts walking back.
Just then, a foursome arrives. One of them sees Jesus walking back and says, “Who does he think he is? Jesus Christ?”
Moses says, “No, he is Jesus Christ. He thinks he’s Arnie Palmer.”
An elderly but hardy cocky from out back of Eketahuna way once told a young female neighbour that if she wanted to live a long life, the secret was to sprinkle a pinch of gunpowder on her oatmeal each morning.
She did this religiously & lived to the age of 103.
She left behind 14 children, 30 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren, five great-great-grandchildren & a 25 foot hole where the crematorium used to be.
Pauline Hansen calls out the Australian government, in a “Where are we?” speech at a CPAC Conservative Political Action Conference 2025 at Mar-a-Lago.
The full transcript here:—
…… but the Australian Labor Party will NEVER… MAKE…. AUSTRALIA…. GREAT…. AGAIN, despite a desperate need to turn our country around.
Under Labor’s weak governance, Australia is being flooded with up to 740,000 migrants a year.
That’s despite a housing crisis where we have more than 280,000 Australians being assisted by specialist homeless services. …..
https://www.noticer.news/pauline-hanson-full-speech-cpac-mar-a-lago/
Also touches on a number of other important issues that Albanese is taking Australia down.
The coalition, especially Luxon need to be made to watch Pauline Handsens Mar-a-Largo speech.Even Barnaby Joice is looking at jumping ship.
Liarbour caught out lying again. They had 5.3% unemployment numbers in their pre-election forecasts, so what’s the fuss about now?
https://x.com/kiwiwayne2/status/1986186208213672158?s=46
Exit polls in NY 81% of young women voted for Mandani. Our green supporters are in the same class of idiots , why?
https://x.com/chanelrion/status/1986518519769432546?s=46
Many women are short of two things men do have – work it out and look at what happens when women are in position of power – Arden/Mahuta/Sepulonie/Pelosi/Merkel/La Garde/Harris/Clinton – sma eofr some men as well but the % is weighted to the females.Exceptions to the female rule however were impressive – Thatcher/Golda Meir
The longest lasting & probably most successful democracy was that of Athens from about 580BC to 86BC. It effectively nullified the power of the tribes who had ruled previously & substituted a system where governance was in the hands of citizens.
Direct participation was the key though I concede that it left decision making open to mob influence & undue haste. (Representative democracy such as we endure suffers from lobbying & inertia instead.)
But the influence of the girlchild voter with feelz wasn’t a problem mostly because women, foreigners & slaves were not enfranchised. Voting rights were restricted to freemen who owned property.
History may have provided the answer to the problems!
...History may have provided the answer…
Voting rights were restricted to freemen who owned property.
yes
and how NZ was before 1890
Which is where the maori male got the vote before non land-owning white fullas
The Maori were joint owners of their land
in principle.
look at when women got the vote in US
Straight away went for banning alcohol to create a wealthy violent criminal. class that has never been wiped out
Near 14 years of violence, law breaking and making ordinary citizens criminals when they wanted a cold beer
Led to massive poo lice corruption and bribery that never went away.
Women should Not have the vote .
Too emotional and easily persuaded to run with the pack instead of thinking about the issues .
NZ came very, very close to having prohibition legislation passed just over 100 years ago. Only the return of the WW1 soldiers swung the vote which was held with the 1919 general election the 1917 election being postponed by the war.
…..”On 7 December 1919, prohibition gained 49.7 percent of the vote; of the 543,762 votes originally cast, the prohibition lobby only lost out by 1632 votes and of the 1744 special votes, 278 were for prohibition.”…..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperance_movement_in_New_Zealand
The women & the Godbotherers nearly had their way.
those with cunts vote for cunts.
Nah. Dumb cunts with cunts vote for dumb cunts.
Not just those with cunts vote for those cunts, often manjinas, the easily lead and those that think that everything sould be given to them
yeah true, simps will do whatever their cunt owning friends/master will tell them to do
Yep thats for sure.
It’s bloody magic how this happens
https://x.com/stevelovesammo/status/1985382193431007282?s=46
Damn I need one of them, but Id be worried that the things on it would never be found when needed.
i know right!!!!
i dont use the coffee table as i make too much mess to fit on it, i just drop shit on the floor or the bench and poof it gets cleaned and put away.
Can you ever find the things that moved?
yes, i yell out “where the fuck is ____” and a female voice is then heard giving directions to where it is.
Thats sick, your shit has locating on it, how ever it could be a bit expensive
Was this Mike’s barber in Thailand ???
https://x.com/hasnazarurihai/status/1986349413300859300?s=46
The questions gotta be…what sort of sites do you visit when the handbrakes’ out shopping?
That was his first wife! 🙂
If there has been a more shameful day in recent British history, I’m struggling to recall it tonight.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/0b2e249be3b4350e
And it will come to New Zealand all too soon. Despite what the evil bitch try to convince the country they are NOT us and never will be.
Watch and learn New Zealand.
Men, if you ever get bored, call up Women’s Rights Groups…
And ask for the man in charge.
Briscoe Group sales dip as Rebel Sport slump offsets homeware gains.
However, over the third-quarter total group sales fell by 1.76%, driven by a decrease in sporting goods sales of 7.33%. Homeware sales grew by 1.8% in comparison.
Duke said sporting goods sales were impacted by the transformation of its Panmure Rebel Sport into a new flagship “Rebel X” concept, which was on track to open in late November.
“The third quarter presented a mixed trading environment, with continued pressure on consumer sentiment and discretionary spending.
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If Briscoes are in tough times imagine the pressure on others.
Everyone knows, only buy from briscoes when they have a sale or you get tucked. People where saving for fireworks and xmas piss, so of course places like brisoces have taken a hit
Every weekend mate! If what you want is not sale, it will be next week!
Here’s a special one just for Hunty. Enjoy.
https://x.com/HasnaZaruriHai/status/1986349413300859300
“Age-restricted content”
Really Alice?
Well well, who woulda known…
That’s the same one I put above
Yes, I’ve just seen that you posted it earlier. Sorry.
Plagiarist, eh..lets get ‘er
Disgusting. Not sure what you mean by ‘er…. I don’t like surprises…
Giving brunettes a bad name?
https://x.com/queenanticommie/status/1986249644309938221?s=46
Is she lip syncing or her own voice?
https://x.com/khnh80044/status/1984923648495665444?s=46
Worth a listen. .
Who remembers Pauline Hansen was imprisoned for fraud, etc (lawfare). She won an appeal a few months later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj2QGs0HuFs
“The Truth Canberra Doesn’t Want You to Hear — Senator Malcolm Roberts Unfiltered”
🎙 In This Episode of the 2 Worlds Collide Podcast, I sit down with Senator Malcolm Roberts — One Nation Senator, straight-talker, and one of the few politicians in Canberra willing to call out the lies, hypocrisy, and corruption eating away at Australia’s democracy. …
This was when the brakes should have gone on!
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2035930950222326
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1159079372340364
FFS If it is not a picture of the Bitch, Its photo’s of this cunt. What a way to spoil a day…. However, “Lest we Forget”. It is better to be visually assaulted and remember why we hate these bastards, than to forget and allow a softening of our resolve.
Settle down, you will do your mind a mischief.
Been a nice few days and I can say a shit of a week with stupid fucking people.
seriously fucking stupid.
But you know what. That’s gunna be their problem next week. looking for jobs.
Hipkins leaping up and down blaming National and hair products man for not picking up McSkiver porno problem! Wanker, you hired him, dickhead. With ya queer mates!
found a way to get rid of him though.