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>A question: do the "new," Rogerless Labour Party and their partners in the
>Alliance have much in the way of a positive agenda, or are they just saying
>No to Rogernomics and its National Party successor?
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The following agenda is the best i remember:
Economy
Repeal further tax cuts (already
There was an empirical study done some time back within Economic
Development that found evidence that while increased real
incomes in a rural area initially led to population increases, but it was
due to a significant decline in infant mortality rates. Not only did
birth rates not increase in
On Sat, 12 Oct 1996, Nathan Newman wrote:
[lotsa good stuff not repeated...]
> I wouldn't ever oppose an increase in the minimum wage--I have a Yes on
> 210 bumber sticker on my car to raise the California minimum wage to $5.75
> and would love to take it higher.
Here in Denver, on election day,
Obviously the poor should be given voluntary incentives not to breed.
For example a lump sum payment of 500 dollars to have tubes tied or
vasectomy would
be suitable. This would be an obvious actual Pareto Improvement and not just
one of those phoney Dawes Hicks Potential Pareto Improvements assum
William Vickrey was a Nobel prize winner who did care about society. I sent
a message to penl before his death--apparently it was lost in transit. I'll
resend it. We'll miss him..
William Vickrey, the new Nobel laureate in economics, is on the advisory
board of the National Jobs for All Coalition.
On Sat, 12 Oct 1996, Robert Cherry wrote:
>Nathan Newman is correct that the working poor have a very high marginal
> tax rate as a result of MEANS-TESTED PROGRAMS. This includes not only the
> EIC but also foodstamps which have a 24 percent phase-out rate. It was one
> of the reasons
Bill Moore asks>>Is it really sound policy to reward folks for breeding?
Not to sound too Malthusian, but why should the prospective parents in
the materialistic richest culture on the planet be *incented* --
irrespective of their relative-intra-national-border-status -- to have
more offspring
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It is interesting to note that on the question of education, a vast
consultation was organized on the future of education in Quebec.
Whether the issues were raised in all their depth or whether the
consultative process itself was adequate is a whole other matter.
The expressed intention was to ha
At 9:31 PM 10/11/96, Robert R Naiman wrote:
>if i were convinced of this, would that imply that in order to be
>honest, instead of advocating "the total elimination of racism" i
>have to advocate "the total elimination of racism, but please be
>advised that this is not possible without overthrowi
with my own cite of the business press, here's an abridged
front-page article from the 9/16 issue of Crains's Chicago Business
is support of my claim that the "competition" being imposed on firms
by Wall Street speculators is a very different beast from that which
we were taught about it school (i
At 3:10 AM 10/12/96, bill mitchell wrote:
>even though it is a small countrythis is a much more significant event that
>whether clinton or dole wins.
Important among other reasons because NZ has been touted as a model of how
to do "radical" free-market reform, and one of the architects of th
On Sat, 12 Oct 1996, Robert Cherry wrote:
>Finally, I agree with Newman that a children's allowance as an
> entitlement is sounder than various schemes, including the EIC, which make
> govt benefits means tested for the working poor and middle class. This is
> why I believe a fight for fu
Nathan Newman is correct that the working poor have a very high marginal
tax rate as a result of MEANS-TESTED PROGRAMS. This includes not only the
EIC but also foodstamps which have a 24 percent phase-out rate. It was one
of the reasons why having a phased-out health credit (the Republican
As usual, Jim Craven's comments about the pseudo-Nobel were right on
target; but they struck a strange chord in the back of my memory. I was
cleaning out a bunch of old files, anyway, and this is what I found... BtC
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To all those who thought that the Presidential election was the only show in
town this year, i can tell you that a major swing in right-left sentiment has
occured in NZ today.
The latest news is that a firm trend is now apparent and the privatising,
welfare-raping, public-sector destroying, emplo
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