Comments on: ACT bills

By: berend

berend — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:43:25 +0000

DPF: I’d love it if this bill was drawn out, as I think quite a few National MPs would want to vote for it.

I predict no National Socialist will vote for it.

Have they already built the cycle way so John Key can actually focus on some important issues? The nats are watering down the three strikes bill, not listening to 90% of NZ who wants the anti-smacking bill removed, ad no movement on real penalties for offenders. Instead we get higher taxes (ETS) and abolishing of tax cuts.

By: Put it away

Put it away — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:32:17 +0000

Hah look at the wet-bus-ticket namby pambies geting in a panic about the victim impact statements. The thought that the people who are most affected by the retarded criminal-friendly things that spineless lefties have done to the justice system actually getting a say about it, is a terrible shock to them.

By: Hurf Durf

Hurf Durf — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:27:33 +0000

Irony of the decade? There are no tariffs on importing nuclear reactors.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:00:21 +0000

Great to see Act trying to push some good policies regardless.

By: Viking2

Viking2 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:31:12 +0000

Yeh well the Tories won’t change anything. It will be too hard to do. I mean they will be too busy trying to shore up their ETS especially now that the system has been hacked and all the codes etc are readily available to the world.
I’m waiting for Smith and Key to spin that one on Monday,(if they actually have been told yet).

By: backster

backster — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:58:12 +0000

Griffins biscuits now cooked in Fiji, Minties now made in Thailand, $250 million a week borrowed to pay benefits. Ever get that sinking ship feeling, No? well you can’t miss all the rats leaving anyhow.

By: gazzmaniac

gazzmaniac — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:31:17 +0000

Heh if it is marketed correctly, along the lines of what redqueen suggests, the Greens won’t know what to support!

By: Manolo

Manolo — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:02:56 +0000

The spineless Tories will vote against it, choosing to maintain the status quo.
So much for National, the party of principles, individual responsibility and self-reliance……yeah right.

By: redqueen

redqueen — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:50:51 +0000

I have to agree about removing the tariffs. Having just looked over the list of items within the harmonised system we really don’t protect against much, except items which we don’t seem to make. So Sir Roger is right to get rid of such a wasteful piece of legislation. It would be nice to get trainers at ten or fifteen per cent less. We could market it as a ‘get the nation healthier’ campaign, by ‘encouraging physical exercise’, and get the Greens onboard

By: gazzmaniac

gazzmaniac — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:49:48 +0000

18% on cane baskets? And 12.5% on skateboards? WTF? Those products aren’t even made in NZ.
Definitely time for that act to go.

By: Johnboy

Johnboy — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:39:11 +0000

So if there is no tariff on footwear my $29.99 Nike lookalikes from (The Warehouse, the Warehouse, where everyone gets a bargain!) will only cost @#$*^&* = fuckall.

Shit I’ll be into that.

The bastard things fall apart after you’ve worn them once anyway!!

By: stephen

stephen — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:30:35 +0000

A twenty five &$^! percent tariff on imported footwear!? Does NZ HAVE a footwear industry to protect?!