Naturally we hate to see jobs leave New Zealand in the form of manufacturing as seen in the Herald this morning. However stopping this is a bit like trying to get Aucklanders out of cars and onto public transport or convincing the labour party that taxing high income earners does not motivate them to earn more, work harder and spend their live in this wonderful country.
There is no silver bullet to keeping smart people in New Zealand. However if it's a great place to live and bring up families then they will stay. The definition of 'great' is the key. For me 'great' includes safe, friendly, clean, easy to do business, great health and education and a future that will be cool for my kids. For me we are safe, friendly and relatively clean. However we are not an easy country to be in business. Our taxes are high, the paper work is out of control and local governments have their spending out of control. With regard to health, plane loads of people flying to Aussie for health care says it all. With regard to education, I am scared. My kids are just starting school, they love it. I however have a feeling that we are squashing all out kids down a single education platform/funnel. Lets stop the underfunding of the higher income areas and give it to the poor areas. What are we trying to do, create a country of average people!
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