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To: TobagoJack who wrote (32452)	4/7/2008 4:39:49 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 217815

Yes TJ, much happier if there are so many resources that they more or less fall out of the ground as annoying products that are as freely available as ocean water and N2 in the air. I did NOT vote for Helen Clark's Big Sister brigade. I am indifferent to a free trade deal with China or anyone else. Free trade, or not free trade, the government collects a certain amount of money from the local yokels. All the NZ government has done is announce a cut in taxes on exporting NZers and NZers importing the affected things, but has done it during a very expensive trip to Beijing for hundreds of self-important bludgers, acolytes, factotums, hangers-on and a lot more besides [apparently it took 600 people to manage to sign it]. I could have achieved the same thing with a fax machine and some on-line video. There would have been no meals and accommodation, expensive air fares, 6 star hotel accommodation, taxi fares and omigod the carbon footprint the whole menagerie created to achieve nothing but a boondoggle. But I wouldn't bother with a free trade agreement at all. I'd just unilaterally cut local taxes on imported products [or perhaps increase them and reduce local taxation a LOT]. Helen Clark is angling for a job as first female Secretary General of the UN and I dare say has got China's vote on her list. King George II is okay with the deal too I think. Nancy Pelosi probably thinks it's a good idea. Gordon Brown too. I feel ill because I was once a United Nations Association member. To have her as Matron in Chief is a bit much. Putin and Medvedev probably wouldn't mind either and Sarkozy would be okay with it I suppose. QUALCOMM has been working diligently at making phragmented photons really really cheap too. You can buy petabillions of them these days at low cost and getting cheaper and spray them around using CDMA/OFDM devices. 450MHz devices send them further meaning even more CDMA/OFDM illumination for less cost. Cheap is good. Zenbu is the cheapest Wi-Fi system in NZ. People like cheap. Free trade agreements are a load of nonsense. More precisely, free trade is good. It's government expenditure which is mostly nonsense. It's more important to cut government waste than to rearrange the taxation processes to favour foreigners than local yokels. I'd cut tariffs on Made in China and would ignore China charging tariffs on NZ goods and services. I'd cut taxes on cyberspace and a lot more besides. I'd hack government spending to shreds. I'd sell tradable citizenships at auction. I'd charge tolls on roads according to how busy they are. I'd sell other government owned things such as water supplies and spectrum for what the market would bear. People could arrange their own "Health" the same as they arrange their own "Supermarkets" and "Booze Barns". If people want their little darlings "Educated", they could hire people to do it. Old people could sell their tradable citizenships for guaranteed monthly payments to their demise for living expenses. Bludgers could get one of those things called "jobs", which involve a thing called "work". There would be no minimum wage. Mqurice