Lindsay Mitchell

Kiwiblog is pouring cold water on 'Don's decision' . Hardly surprising. A Brash-led ACT would drag default votes away from Nati...

An enforced 'holiday'. I will end up doing housework all day. Because when I am not at my shop working (suddenly the work has come i...

This is explained well by Laffer and summarised by the NCPA : * To start with, individuals and businesses must pay the government the $1...

MacDoctor makes mention of Professor Innes Asher hand-wringing over the rising number (Table SR.1) of teenagers on a sickness or invalid b...

Funny how the word 'progressive' usually has good connotations. Not when it comes to tax (unless you are a socialist). NCPA reports...

Two months ago Australian PM Julia Gillard made her first major economic speech of the year about getting people off benefits. She has just...

According to the NZ Herald ; Extended family and close friends of child abusers could face up to 10 years in prison if they turn a blind eye...

Oh joy. Someone other than me having a go at the Child Poverty Action Group. Big ups to Dr Rosy Fenwicke for her column in yesterday's D...

Details are boring and irrelevant when it comes to the government-run systems of benefits and tax. But those details keep thousands of peopl...

A blunder by someone who should know better. Labour MP Carmel Sepuloni expects someone volunteering in her office - because she has no mone...

This headline from Radio NZ irks somewhat; 'Super-rich' yet to contribute to quake appeal If I were 'super-rich', and in a ...

From today's NZ Herald; Bernard Hickey's column last week elicited this response from Susan St John, associate professor of economic...

Tariana Turia had an opinion piece in the Dominion Post during the week. My response was published in today's paper;

That's the latest idea afoot in Australia. Wealthy parents, already paying school fees, are an "untapped" source of further fu...

What a hopeless situation this country has gotten itself into with regard to welfare. Hopeless. It is laid out starkly by Simon Collins in t...

There has been an increase in crime , domestic violence and alcohol-related incidents in Canterbury towns hosting families who have left Chr...

A criticism of Libertarianz immigration policy at Crusader Rabbit yesterday prompted me to have a closer look at the NZ situation. The discu...

I must be leading a sheltered life. I don't know any sulky 15 year-olds who smoke too much dope . So I have no idea how they behave. Wha...

As a result of someone pulling my leg over the Maori translation of Ministry of Women's Affairs I had a look at said website this morn...

Best month ever. Coincides with the second biggest business confidence downturn since the survey began. Reading blogs make people gloomy? ...