Alex

love my sport, food and a good discussion. views are my own! Farm raised

[Alex @AlexMurray14]

Just because they can, doesn’t mean they do.

His point is that when it’s clear that they can’t, the solution is often to disestablish the job rather than the employer fund the loss.

So now the low productivity employee has no job where in a voluntary exchange market, they’d have a job.

[The Salty One @the_salty_one_]

Happy New Zealand Day!

The day we celebrate the British for freeing the slaves, ending cannibalism, building infrastructure, increasing life expectancy and one of the best colonies in the world!

Thank you for making New Zealand what it is today! We are forever grateful 🇳🇿

[Mr. Nobody and Everybody @RLMcares]

@JamesMelville Some support

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The University of Nebraska debunks the manipulation behind cow farts/burps and methane:

“They have not accounted for the capture part, they only account for methane being released. Carbon capture in soil and grass - helped out by cow grazing and manure - can far outweigh the emissions from cattle. Grasslands can take up more CO2 and carbon in the soil and plants, that offsets the CO2 that cattle are producing but it also offsets the methane.”

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

Economist Thomas Sowell was once a Marxist, but now he advocates for free markets.

"What was your wake-up to what was wrong with [Marxism]?"
@RubinReport asked him.

"Facts," Sowell replies.

Here’s why I admire Sowell:

[Alex @AlexMurray14]

@ekstraeks @aniobrien I agree

[Ani O'Brien @aniobrien]

I am horrified by the Islamist terror attack at Bondi Beach last night, targeting the Jewish community gathered to picnic and celebrate Chanukah. This was an act of hatred aimed squarely at Jewish Australians and Jewish people worldwide. I offer my solidarity to Jewish communities here in New Zealand, who should never have to live with the fear that they do.

We can, and should, be horrified, but no one should be shocked by what happened yesterday. For two years now, radical Islamists and their fellow travellers have marched through the streets of Western cities every week, openly chanting their intentions. Since October 7, 2023, we have seen calls to “globalise the intifada” and cries of “from the river to the sea” amplified again and again.

What happened at Bondi Beach last night was “globalise the Intifada” in practice.

In New Zealand, as throughout the West, certain politicians have lent legitimacy to this extremism. The co-leader of the Green Party, Chlöe Swarbrick, has delivered manic and radical speeches at multiple anti-Israel and antisemitic events, screaming slogans that inspire the kinds of men like those who opened fire on the Jewish community at Bondi Beach. Swarbrick, the entire Green Party, and other MPs who have amplified jihadist rhetoric should be explaining themselves to the New Zealand people.

The time has come to look back in anger. It has been a terrible mistake for western countries and our leadership to be so weak in responses to these kinds of attacks for so long. We cannot be submissive nor permissive and expect our way of life to survive.

We live in multicultural countries, and the overwhelming majority of people do so peacefully. That peace, however, depends on shared values. In the West, those values built high-trust, open, positive societies; societies that protect minorities, uphold free speech, and reject political violence. We must never relinquish the values that made our countries successful and it is precisely that success that has drawn people here for generations.

Radical Islam is not compatible with those values. Pretending otherwise is dangerous, dishonest, and suicidal. We must confront this reality clearly and without euphemism before more innocent people pay the price.

I want to make it clear that I have zero tolerance and negative-levels of patience for antisemitism. If you pollute my comment section with antisemitism (from the Left or the Right) I will block you. If you start wanking on about “false flag” operations in my comment sections I will block you. I will not have radical maniacs piggy-backing my platforms to spread their utter shit. As always robust disagreement is welcome, but conspiratorial, blood-libel, “da joos are behind everything” crap is not debate. It is a mind virus and you need to get outside and spend some time in reality.

[Alex @AlexMurray14]

@findnick1 @nickofnz Totally agree.

[Alex @AlexMurray14]

@findnick1 @nickofnz You lost the audience when you said “Nick? You’re a smart guy”
🤦‍♂️

[Alex @AlexMurray14]

You’d think the Greenpeace guy would wish for a sustainable climate for humanity and the end of biodiversity and habitat loss…..

….but hey billionaire envy is in fashion right now for the woke left

Imagine wasting your Christmas wish on solving nothing when your entire personality is supposed to be based on saving the planet

[Alex @AlexMurray14]

@Matt_Pinner The missing thing is a point to this post

[Alex @AlexMurray14]

@DeePak29688599 @nickofnz Who, that is actually a serious person, celebrates Greenpeace? 🤦‍♂️😂

[Alex @AlexMurray14]

@voltaire_nz @greencatherine This tweet might be a bit sophisticated for @greencatherine

[Alex @AlexMurray14]

More than likely they won’t move but they’re more than likely to not set up a new business, which would employ people and generate goods and services etc. Taxes have massive second and third order consequences.

A huge issue that these climate activist idiots have is they can’t fathom how stopping an activity in one area just leads to increasing it somewhere else.

A bit like declining to mine coal in Nz, leads to its importation from Indonesia with all of the extra diesel burned to bring it here. The global carbon emissions increase massively so the activist can virtue signal.
If the import doesn’t occur, then we get energy insecurity in nz and households and industry suffer, often leading to increased poverty.

Not to mention the coal imported would be mined in far lower in terms of environmental regulations.

The activist never has a workable sustainable solution when it comes to carbon replacement.

[Alex @AlexMurray14]

Nick would seemingly prefer to have other environments decimiated with lax environmental regulations. He’d apparently prefer the economic benefits and prosperity associated with mining to be gleaned by other countries; meanwhile nz falls further in all major OECD metrics for quality of life.

Nevermind that environmental outcomes improve significantly as economies prosper.

It’s almost as if dogmatic ideology is the only thing Nick can consider when he decides to close his NSFW browser tabs and open X.

What a tool.

[Alex @AlexMurray14]

@meerkat01155611 @CLRenney Would love to hear old mate Renney’s answer to this but he won’t comment

[Alex @AlexMurray14]

Can you elaborate on how it “categorically” improves the current situation? How does use of the proposed tax increase health worker and doctor numbers when it’s only being proposed to pay for visits? Surely this just means more people will go to the Doc without any actual expansion in services to facilitate that extra demand?

That sounds like a deteriorating situation to me?

[Alex @AlexMurray14]

@BMac70738544 @nickofnz Bazza!

Get out of here with your logic and rationality. They have no place on a Greenpeace propaganda thread!

[Alex @AlexMurray14]

So you recognise a capital gains tax likely just disincentivises property sales and therefore any extra revenue would be sporadic at best and likely not enough to move the dial?

for those that want it as a means to lower house prices, if it works then it fails to solve any revenue issue for the future as there won’t have been capital gain.

Cap gain tax is only really relevant for equalising capital allocation into asset classes.

[Alex @AlexMurray14]

@mauriceraiti @Daibach58 How much more should tax payers pay? Why stop at 3 billion, why not just lift taxes and fund every union for double what they ask?