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| Thread ID: 114618 | 2010-12-10 08:00:00 | Beer Tax | Cicero (40) | PC World Chat |
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| 1160494 | 2010-12-12 06:04:00 | If a country can produce all that is required with say 80% of the labour force, then what are we to do with this surplus. Is it not a valid question Ken.? Technology will only do more with less people. They must be made to good works. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1160495 | 2010-12-12 08:40:00 | Agreed they must do something - the problem is with an overstrained reduced tax base, how does one pay them? We know how the taxpayers love forking out to keep non-producers living in a lifestyle that the tax-paying producers can't afford. |
KenESmith (6287) | ||
| 1160496 | 2010-12-12 09:28:00 | I remember meeting the owner of a Shoe factory that was inTe Kuiti, Bulgers electorate, they made excellent shoes, European pattern French Shriner. He made the following comment: " I am more than happy to compete with Australians, Canadians, British, West Europeans and Americans, but I cannot compete with cheap Asian manufacturers who pay there employees less than I have to pay ACC levy on each of my employees." That is the crux of New Zealands manufacturing problems, even when economies of scale do not apply, we cannot compete with third world labour costs. NZ lost Fisher and Paykel manufacturing, because the company could make more money having its products made in third world countries than employing New Zealanders - I doubt that F&P were losing money, it was a matter that they could make more by exporting NZ jobs. Brierly was one of the pioneer s of this unhappy practice that has just snowballed. As NZ's population expands, if employment continues to shrink, the problem will only get worse, and the productive taxpayers will increasingly resent the non wealth generating sector and those who live off their labour and enterprise. They could as I have done taken my beer drinking custom to a more hospitable hostelry, |
KenESmith (6287) | ||
| 1160497 | 2010-12-12 18:17:00 | Is NZ enterprise encouraged. Are new ideas people taxed too much in their formative years? Is R&D encouraged. I have a feeling that lots of good ideas are stultified by all the rules and regulations. Anyway, some new ideas must be engendered if we are to survive in this crazy world. |
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