Month: June 2021

  • Racketeering at the Ministry of Business

    Protection rackets are an age old scam, and they operate on a pretty simple principle. Gangsters demand money from a business, and in return, the gangsters promise not to hinder…


  • More employees and higher costs every year

    The New Zealand public service cost around $50-60 billion to run each year, and employs close to 450,000 people. Given the whole NZ budget is only around $100 billion, you’d…


  • NZ Farmers feed the crocodile

    In a 1940 speech, Winston Churchill described countries wanting to remain neutral during the war as appeasers, and said each one is “feeding the crocodile in the hope they will…