Plaint – compliant, protest; an accusation or charge; an official legal complaint against someone that is used in a court of law; lamentation; action or an act of plaining; audible expression of sorrow.
Sowell says
30/05/2024If not a single policeman killed a single black individual anywhere in the United States for this entire year, that would not reduce the number of black homicide victims by one percent. When the mobs of protesters declare “Black lives matter,” does that mean ALL black lives…
— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) May 26, 2024
Woman of the day
30/05/2024Woman of the Day physicist Ruby Payne-Scott of New South Wales born on OTD 1912 in New South Wales, the first woman radio astronomer and during WW2, Australia’s radar expert on the detection of enemy aircraft. Her early work helped to establish that the Earth’s magnetism had… pic.twitter.com/Pg5CK3TcM0
— The Attagirls (@TheAttagirls) May 28, 2024
Taking less not giving more
30/05/2024Ever since National talked about helping us by allowing us to keep some of our own money, critics have been vociferous in opposition.
There are so many urgent needs in core public services – education, health, infrastructure, police . . . it’s not hard to understand why they think the government needs every cent it can get.
But the previous government has proven, over and over again, that the quantity of tax taken isn’t necessarily related to the quality of the spending and that more isn’t necessarily better.
The critics labour under the misapprehension that money governments take in taxes is theirs and they have a right, even a responsibility, to take more of ours.
They don’t understand that spending carefully and well is far, far better than spending more.
Too many think wealth is to be redistributed, they don’t understand it has to be created.
They want to punish success and encourage dependency.
We’ve got a government that understands that they have a responsibility to take only what is necessary and to spend it wisely, that good governments encourage wealth creation, they don’t handicap it and that money taken in taxes comes from people who earned it.
In doing that, they will show in today’s Budget that they recognise it’s our money, not theirs and contrary to what the critics say, they won’t be giving us more, they’ll just be taking a little bit less.