Apparently I'm 60 plus. 😮 The track is my happy place. Proud JAFA. Receiver of nonsensical comebacks from bad drivers. Host of The New Zealand Tax Podcast www.baucher.tax
SOUND THE NEW ZEALAND MENTIONED KLAXON! Also this is a crackup thread.
Kevin M. KruseI only now realized that when I searched for the cover image of White Flight earlier, it pulled up this image drawn from one of the blurbs for the book. The words are from the amazing southern historian Dan Carter. But the image is of the amazing New Zealand rugby star Dan Carter.
Anyone heard from the Taxpayer's Union?
RNZ News FeedsChristopher Luxon defends using Air Force flight to attend National Party fundraiser
#nzpol @musicalchairs.bsky.social explains (again) the current shitshow that is "economic policy"
Musical ChairsAwful truth, unknown to 99% of the population... NZ Govt adopted an economic management model in the 1980s that MAKES SURE: 1. We always have tens of thousands of kiwis on the dole. 2. People with work / little work live in abject poverty that keeps them desperate for crap jobs. Why? [🧵 1/n]
#nzpol In the wake of today's unemployment figures I'm just reposting this anecdote from the Battle of the Bulge which has stuck with me for a very long time. Can't imagine why it seems relevant.🤬
Terry Baucher#nzpol This is the post I was looking for and also in the aftermath of an OCR decision. Still using an out of date map & the young paying for it with high unemployment & lower prospects. The needle is stuck but no-one wants to change the record. 🤬
Likewise. What's interesting about @musicalchairs.bsky.social is not that what they say is radical, it isn't, but that it's very orthodox. Critically, they deal in facts - what actually is happening in the economy, not what the reckonomists, Treasury, the RBNZ & the Govt think should be happening.
KatyaI have learnt so much about economics by reading @musicalchairs.bsky.social threads. Such a pity politicians and pundits aren't reading them too #nzpol
#nzpol Gull watch 7.22 am, 5th August. No change overnight. Meanwhile nice to see someone isn't out of pocket. Major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis | Oil | The Guardian share.google/0hpWPDJVaYKz...
#nzpol Anyone who has been following the excellent @musicalchairs.bsky.social will not be surprised to hear the same is almost certainly true here thanks to our "sound economic managers" 🙄
Political GadgetsAustralian political discussion is heating up. Top trending: corporate profit-driven inflation, housing market collapse, and privacy concerns over police surveillance tech. Institutional distrust is peaking. 🧵1/3
#nzpol This is from 10 months ago but I very much doubt things had changed much by Friday when Luxon was being all adult like. We'll know more after the latest unemployment figures are released tomorrow. Hint, they won't be good, but never mind National has a plan: blame Labour
Sophie these daysSooo... you know how Luxon said young people should get off the couch and get a job, and business people in Rotorua clapped? Below is a graph of the Rotorua labour market. This is NOT a get-off-the-couch problem. Thanks to @musicalchairs.bsky.social for doing this. #nzpol
The PM's media team really hate him eh? Maybe watching 'VEEP' and 'The Thick of It' should be prime qualifications for media managers. I mean half the time what happens to the PM comes across as a deleted scene from those programmes.
AsherSurely the Prime Minister could have found and booked a big venue for his Kāpiti public meeting that wasn't Jevon McSkimming's church...
#nzpol Front page of today's Herald. More interestingly, the story (continued in second photo) starts to pick apart his pre-Air New Zealand business experience. (Also of note is that the print story doesn't tie up with the online version). www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
In this week's podcast, we look at the OECD's 2026 Corporate Tax Statistics report, The Taxation & Charities Review Authority confirms IRD's denial of deductions was correct & how a 70% effective marginal tax rate applied on just $2,000 of income. soundcloud.com/user-2622281...
This week the OECD 2026 corporate tax statistics report, how a 70% effective marginal tax rate applied on just $2,000 of income & moreThis week, we look at the OECD’s 2026 Corporate Tax Statistics report, The Taxation & Charities Review Authority confirms the Commissioner’s denial of deductions was correct and how a 70% effective masoundcloud.com