- Dr. David Clark, New Zealand’s health minster, has been demoted after he admitted taking his family on a beach trip on the first weekend of the country’s coronavirus lockdown.
- It was the second time he had flouted his own government’s social distancing advice. Last week, he was photographed riding his mountain bike when all New Zealanders were being encouraged to stay home.
- Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the she would have sacked her minister for the lockdown abuse, but she needs him to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic threatening the country.
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Just yesterday the local Liberal MP for this area, Adam Crouch was calling on people to "Dob in a Tourist to Crime Stoppers on the Central Coast", threatening 6 months jail terms. Now the Tele dobs in Don Harwin!!
Don (HAPPY HOLIDAY) Harwin has been kicking back in the beautiful Pearl Beach for a few weeks now according to reports. The Liberal Min for The Arts lives in Sydney’s Elizabeth Bay. Do as I say not as I do seems to be his attitude.
Arts Minister Don Harwin’s retreat to his luxury holiday accommodation is a clear indication “the minister believes he is above the law,” according to Sky News Contributor Caleb Bond. The Daily Telegraph is reporting “while the rest of NSW follows directions and bunkers down this Easter, Arts Minister Don Harwin has infuriated government colleagues by moving to his luxury beach house”. NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro has said “the rules apply to everyone and politician’s aren’t exempt”. Sky News host Peter Gleeson said he “wondered if the Arts Minister would be slapped with a $1,300 fine by those particularly good NSW police officers”. “He should be slapped with his removal from the cabinet,” Mr Bond said Mr Harwin believes “he is a member of the ruling class, and that these rules do not apply to him,” Mr Bond said. “Harwin has got to go, there is no other solution to this".
Unhappy Residents at Pearl Beach
NSW Minister Don Harwin went clothes shopping in Sydney after relocating to holiday home
NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller has warned the Minister he would be fined $1000 if his excuse for travelling to the central coast property didn't "cut the mustard".
Daniel Reck (London School of Economics) presents Tax Evasion by the Wealthy: Measurement and Implications (with John Guyton (IRS), Patrick Langetieg (IRS), Max Risch(Michigan) & Gabriel Zucman (UC-Berkeley)) online at Georgetown today as part of its Tax Law and Public Finance Workshop Series hosted by John Brooks and Brian Galle
Jonathan Grossberg (Robert Morris), Something for Nothing: Universal Basic Income and the Value of Work Beyond Incentives, 26 Wash. & Lee J. Civ. Rts. & Soc. Just. 1 (2019):
Proponents and opponents of a universal basic income all acknowledge that the most significant political challenge to its adoption in the United States is that a universal basic income would not have a work requirement attached. Often, this is characterized as a problem involving incentives—the availability of a universal basic income would cause many people to stop working (or significantly curtail the number of hours that they work) and simply live off the universal basic income. This Article makes three contributions to the literature related to a universal basic income: first, it provides a typology for understanding the many reasons for valuing work; second, it argues that the United States is unlikely to implement a universal basic income because a universal basic income does not account for several aspects of the value of work; and, third, it argues that advocates of a universal basic income should instead focus on the more modest goal of redefining the activities that constitute work and broadening the social safety net by expanding existing policies through the use of a broader definition of work.