Unions believe a fair world is a world that has high taxation and wealth redistribution. Given this, I reckon unions ought to put their tax money where their ideology is: with the IRD.

Whoops: to anyone coming in here via the link from NotPC, this thread was originally called the Authorised Financial Advisor (AFA) Regulations ... thread.

Unfortunately, this man is in microcosm the body politic of the modern Western Nanny State:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuf...

There are many pre-conditions of a civilized, free society, too many to list in fact because we are so far from that ideal, but before we get there we’ll need to see, finally, the last priest hanging

This debate was in Toronto on Friday. It's already up on Youtube, but is in nine parts. Here's the first:

From: http://beattiesbookblog.blogsp...

Quoting:

SOLO-International Op-Ed: It's the Greens, Stoopid!

Mark Hubbard
November 24, 2010

I feel empathy for the families and friends whom the perished miners leave behind; only a monster would have no such empathy. I do not feel grief though, for the same reason I feel no personal grief for the millions of young men who died in the last two world wars: I knew none of them personally, as I knew none of these men.

We've got a granddaughter - seven years old - staying with us at the moment.

http://beattiesbookblog.blogsp...

That's $45 saved

From this thread: http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/k...

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/econ...

Every single opinion piece from Kim Jong Hickey is now a call to regulate in one form or another: capital controls, tax this and that to 'rebalance' the economy because the freedom of markets can't be

SOLO-NZ Op-Ed: My Suggested Fix for the New Zealand Finance Sector

Mark Hubbard
November 19, 2010

Now the Securities Commission is going after Huljich Wealth Management for, amongst other things, Peter Huljich putting his own money in his own fund, to cover his investors. Huh?

Terry Serepisos is a Kiwi hero following his pursuit of happiness, and in that pursuit has brought happiness to football lovers in New Zealand for many years.

When governments think they are in the business of bullying widows over whether they can sell their husbands' wrist watches or not:

The first person to invent a machine that turns a spammer into a tosspot of salt on their chair immediately on their posting, gets to be Emperor.

They're becoming really annoying.

In a true coming of age, this is my first music thread. I’ve been listening to the BBC Singers performing Rachmaniov’s Vespers for the last couple of hours (edit detail: while working).

From: http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/t...

Quoting:

Did anyone else feel physically ill after watching this on the news last night?

(Surely if tobacco is now going to be effectively banned, there should have been a health warning on that item).

A film technician's placard on the protest against the actors union (an Australian union) says it all.

'Thirty years to build an industry, one union boycott to destroy it.'

In an effort to get pRick’s form of sneaky evil finally off Milton Davey’s celebration thread, I wanted to quote pRick referring to himself on this post to that thread: http://www.solopassion.com/nod

http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/b...

Quote:

The below is as posted to Kim Jong Hickey's site.

And I need do little other than quote the article:

[This was written one week ago and I have been dithering around over posting it or not.

It is starting to look like, from various reports, the SFO may be having trouble making a case here. But that's not the point of this post. Copying and pasting direct from interest.co.nz:

Carter gets his marching orders: http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/c...

Chris Carter has done us a service today by:

The storm troopers of the Police State in our times are found in the taxing authorities, including our IRD.

Hey, great plane Peter: http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominio...