"The founder of a startup business that helps employers and parents with parental leave is asking whether it's fair that parents are taxed as individuals.

Stephanie Pow said she regularly helped parents navigate their entitlements, including Working for Families and Family Boost.

All of these supports are assessed on the basis of household income.

But when it came to tax, that is applied on an individual basis."

#SusanEdmunds, 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/577357/should-parents-get-to-share-their-tax-bills

Benefits should be individual too.

"University of Auckland assistant professor of finance Gertjan Verdickt said there were multiple layers to it.

...

Verdickt said AI was difficult to value, but the average company was profitable and there seemed to be sustainable business ideas behind them."

#SusanEdmunds, 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/575935/is-the-share-market-about-to-crash

Aaaaaahahahaha. It's like the DotCom bubble all over again. The financial experts have no idea how empty of real value #MOLE Training is.

#AI

"Massey University Dean's Chair in Management Professor Jarrod Haar said it did not help anyone to have young people on benefits.

But he said it would be better to use the money that would have been spent on teenagers' benefits on encouraging businesses to hire them."

#SusanEdmunds, 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/575154/how-many-job-hunters-are-there-for-each-job-ad

This is wrong on so many levels. For a start, those benefit support those receiving them and feed money into the real economy. They're not the dead loss they're being spun as here.

Bloody dole bludgers not trying hard enough to get paid work. Oh wait ...

"An ad for an IHC Calf and Rural Scheme administrative assistant in Southland drew 998, an Idea Services support worker ad in Waikato had 753 and Farro Fresh received 740 applications for its ad for Christmas casuals.

... Ikea, which is due to open in Auckland soon, is working to hire 500 staff but media have reported that more than 15,000 people had applied to work there."

#SusanEdmunds, 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/565332/jobseekers-battle-not-improving-taking-a-toll