There's never going to be an entirely free market, but the more free the better in general. While children have do a right and obligation to be educated, potential teachers exist within a labour… (View Post)

Why shouldn't it? I can see the purpose of unions to provide support for resources for within the sector, eg to represent a teacher who is facing a dispute. That's the productive bit unions… (View Post)

And that immigration it has - does it try to attract high-skilled immigration, or low-skilled minimum wage immigration? Attracting high skilled immigration is a positive, attracting low-skilled just … (View Post)

What barriers to trade? A little bit of customs paperwork? Big frigging deal, NZ deals with far, far, far more than that and thrives. Cutting off virtually-infinite minimum wage labour isn't a b… (View Post)

For one thing we're two different people so can have different thoughts or priorities. For another we should import that which we're unproductive with and export those that we're produ… (View Post)