Economic performance in 2012 for South Africa
- is about the same as 2011 (50%, 1 Votes)
- is better than 2011 (50%, 1 Votes)
- is worse than 2011 (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 2
Start Date: 1 May, 2012 @ 10:49 pm
End Date: 31 December, 2012 @ 12:00 pm
What are Bitcoins to you?
- An irrelevant, overhyped fad that is entirely unsuitable as a curency (80%, 4 Votes)
- What's a Bitcoin? (20%, 1 Votes)
- The future of currencies and transactions with security, anonymity and no central control or debasement (0%, 0 Votes)
- An interesting idea, but I'm not sure what it means practically (0%, 0 Votes)
- An important complement to traditional money (0%, 0 Votes)
- An irrelevant, overhyped fad (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 5
Start Date: 1 May, 2012 @ 10:45 pm
End Date: 31 December, 2012 @ 12:00 pm
How should we be financing our freeways?
- The eTolls infrastructure has already been built. It's an imperfect system, but since we've spent the money already we may as well use it. (100%, 1 Votes)
- Licence renewal fees should go up. That way we can tailor the cost to the type of vehicle and its impact on the road without fancy eTolls. (0%, 0 Votes)
- A one-off wealth-tax could raise enough money to pay for the roads and decrease income inequality. It might hurt, but the positive benefits in the medium term would be worth it. (0%, 0 Votes)
- Government should borrow additional money to pay for it. Our children can deal with the problem - we have enough of our own. (0%, 0 Votes)
- Why should we pay for something we didn't ask for? Government didn't have a mandate to spend that much money on roads. I don't care about the consequences, I'm not paying (0%, 0 Votes)
- The eTolls are appropriate - pay for use. Why should drivers outside Gauteng pay for Gauteng freeways through a fuel levy or income tax? Now we must leverage the eTolls system to greater benefit (0%, 0 Votes)
- A Fuel Levy would be more efficient and encourage fuel efficiency, lower pollution (0%, 0 Votes)
- Increase my income tax. Roads should be paid for through general government revenues anyway and the rich should pay more since they can afford it. (0%, 0 Votes)
- Increase VAT. That way everybody pays for it and not just the rich. Tax is too progressive already and VAT is more difficult to dodge. (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 1
Start Date: 1 May, 2012 @ 10:28 pm
End Date: 31 July, 2012 @ 12:00 pm
Who will default before 31 December 2011?
- Greece (43%, 3 Votes)
- None of the above (29%, 2 Votes)
- South Africa (14%, 1 Votes)
- Italy (14%, 1 Votes)
- The US (0%, 0 Votes)
- Ireland (0%, 0 Votes)
- Portugal (0%, 0 Votes)
- Spain (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 7
Start Date: 1 August, 2011 @ 11:32 pm
End Date: 1 September, 2011 @ 11:32 pm
Expansionary monetary policy is:
- A useful policy tool to manage the business cycle and cyclical unemployment (43%, 3 Votes)
- A path to inflation, depreciation, damaged price information and a stagnant economy (29%, 2 Votes)
- Sometimes a useful tool but completely over used recently (29%, 2 Votes)
- Required for low unemployment (0%, 0 Votes)
- A red herring from more important economic policy issues (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 7
Start Date: 1 August, 2011 @ 11:26 pm
End Date: 1 October, 2011 @ 11:26 pm