I empathise with you, James. I can imagine how it feels to pour heart and soul into a website business only to see a govt funded project compete directly with you and appear to be stealing your business thanks to the taxpayer. As we all know s**t happens and it all seems so unfair.
There are regular campaigns to highlight govt overspending. I can still remember the fracas over the logo for Te Papa, but I don't think it is going to save eventfinder. The only thing that will do that is to create a niche that nzlive cannot reach. Go for their weaknesses (you'll find them!) and not their strengths (funding). Good luck, anyway. On Apr 29, 2:38 pm, Mark Rickerby <[email protected]> wrote: > Just to be clear (this thread is insanely OT, btw, but interesting)... > > It's absurd to suggest that money that the government allocates for > culture is money taken away from core services like health, when the > amount spent on these core services totals in the billions, rather > than the millions. > > From the budget, money gets explicitly earmarked for expenditure in > particular areas. So by the stage that these so-called gravy train > project the government has already decided that the money spent on > health, education, etc is set at the appropriate level. > > The broken window argument is about unintended consequences (ie: so > called economic benefits of what might conventionally thought of as an > accident or loss). I'm not sure how this applies to pejorative claims > about "wastage", since the money would have been allocated to this > sector regardless, it's not an unforseen event, and the microeconomics > is irrelevant unless you're one of the companies competing for > contracts. > > I recommend looking at the actual numbers... we're talking about less > than 0.3% of your annual taxes here. > > see:http://rowansimpson.com/2008/06/08/tax-statement/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
