tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post4645394029039110547..comments2024-03-28T09:22:36.967+13:00Comments on Offsetting Behaviour: Can consequences this foreseeable really be unintended?Eric Cramptonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15831696523324469713noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-48086305450914657372013-08-07T10:09:37.292+12:002013-08-07T10:09:37.292+12:00This is the same Vic Uni lecturer that believes th...This is the same Vic Uni lecturer that believes the top salary allowable in NZ should be about 75-80k. Which funnily enough is right around his salary. So that answers the questions about the brain surgeons, he'd suggest they go down. Which means they will simply leave the country. Well done, and I'd hope none of you need brain surgery once all the good doctors leave!Jmacnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-32235297815816130382013-07-29T06:12:20.622+12:002013-07-29T06:12:20.622+12:00Quinn, you're conflating two things that reall...Quinn, you're conflating two things that really really have to be kept separate.<br /><br />If you put the burden of social policy on the firms that hire lower-productivity workers, you discourage the employment of those workers. If you instead handle it through the tax and redistribution system, you put it on the aggregate tax base. The policy you support will hurt the people you are trying to help, relative to having support through various wage supplement programmes like WFF.Eric Cramptonhttp://offsettingbehaviour.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-60269096193342333192013-07-27T22:31:45.343+12:002013-07-27T22:31:45.343+12:00Bollocks if you pay less than a living wage your b...Bollocks if you pay less than a living wage your business is being subsidised somewhere. Take a few less overseas holidays and pay a decent rate. No excuses.quinnjinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-46593807569171782052013-07-27T17:57:36.977+12:002013-07-27T17:57:36.977+12:00I am not so sure about the quantitative argument h...I am not so sure about the quantitative argument here. Some people earn 50 times the average salary. Our Prime Minister gives his salary away to a trust that is blind to him. The guy makes me proud to be a New Zealanderpaulscottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-24489005003591943492013-07-24T22:19:30.344+12:002013-07-24T22:19:30.344+12:00iirc the proposal included the staff at the compan...iirc the proposal included the staff at the company picking up the outsourced work.kupofannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-26934153083454643072013-07-24T11:05:41.841+12:002013-07-24T11:05:41.841+12:00Yikes! I was Unplugged over the weekend so missed ...Yikes! I was Unplugged over the weekend so missed this. What Geoff doesn't realise is that he's calling for bad policy all 'round. The private sector will pay for better experts than the public sector and successfully rent-seek as a result.<br /><br />Also, pay rates for consulting firms is a flexible concept. A shareholder employee could be paid three times someone else and also share in firm profits. How will we police that?Billhttp://gropingtobethlehem.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-60740648468995878072013-07-24T11:02:18.108+12:002013-07-24T11:02:18.108+12:00My immediate thought was to wonder whether the goo...My immediate thought was to wonder whether the good Prof Bertram had ever been offered a salary more than three times higher than the lowest-paid employee of Vic Uni? And if so, had he accepted it? Hypocrisy much?<br />He could, I suppose argue that his intention was for cleaners and the like to receive a massive salary boost. Sure, as long as the university can screw the money out of students or rejig their wage bill to provide more equal distribution I suppose that is fine.<br />Sadly, I suspect years in academia haven't removed Dr Bartram's belief in the the rarely-sighted Magical Money Tree.bobuxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-82655935129951870942013-07-24T08:28:33.745+12:002013-07-24T08:28:33.745+12:00Amen. I sat through a Living Wage seminar last nig...Amen. I sat through a Living Wage seminar last night and trying to have a bit of fun i asked if a Living Profit for private firms was a goer as well ... no one picked i was being ironic ...John Dicksonnoreply@blogger.com