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21st August 2017, 02:42 PM | #121 |
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I see National is panicking and dipping onto the lolly jar to go after Labour's base with $18 Doctor visits for Community Card holders.
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The Greens are now suddenly breaking their deal with Labour and are standing in Ohariu.
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Well so far, I'm afraid that Labour's primary policy platform appears to be simplicity itself... just tax the living daylights out of everyone that forms the backbone of the country and the economy.
► Tax on water ► Tax on personal and business assets ► Tax on the value of any land you own ► Capital Gains Tax What price them re-introducing death duties. Time to start moving the remainder of my investments overseas I think. |
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28th August 2017, 12:13 AM | #131 |
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Oh
► Tax the tourists now |
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OK, I think I have found an issue I can hang my hat on.
There is so much I like and dislike in the policies of both main parties, that its hard to know who to vote for. However, I am somewhat incensed by Amy Adams' appalling attitude of sticking her middle finger up to the Supreme Court with regards to Teina Pora. If any of the major parties comes out with a Policy statement to the effect that they are going to depoliticize the claims process surrounding wrongful convictions, and make the Supreme Court the sole-arbiter of same, they will get my vote. |
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No there isn't. This really belongs in Trials and Errors, but Pora unjustly spent more than 20 years locked up for something he didn't do thanks to crooked cops who took a lot of shortcuts instead of doing a proper job of investigating the crime. They didn't have look much further to find Malcolm Rewa
Politicians ALWAYS drag their feet when it comes to compensation for wrongful convictions. They should not be anywhere near that kind of decision making. The question of compensation should be entirely down to the courts. Any party who announces this as a policy gets my vote this year. |
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The government left it open for him to seek inflation, while still giving him the payout. It was basically just getting the courts to decide on a proper amount for precedent and not the govt guessing
They could have just said full and final http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/poli...ion--amy-adams Even Pora's team aknowledged this
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Labour 43%
National 41% Not definitive by any means, but the mood for change appears strong enough to depose Billy boy. Debate to follow later tonight. I expect Jacinda to eat him up and spit him out. (not that I'll be watching - I have some paint drying I need to watch instead) |
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I thought she was just empty and devoid of any substance. Mind you. He was boring. Sent from my SM-J500Y using Tapatalk |
31st August 2017, 06:34 PM | #141 |
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Mate, you'd say that no matter what she said.
Consensus seems to be the real winner of it was Mike Hosking. Well, there's a surprise. I'd love to know how Johnny Key feels about all this - looks like he got his timing completely wrong. He would have thought, "No way straight-up Bill can lose from here: no competition... game over." Nup. |
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I'm still disappointed that Jacinda appears to be all talk, rhetoiric and platitudes, but no numbers and no details. I want details.
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How surprising is that? She's been in the job for a whole month.
In any case, since when have any promises & details offered prior to an election actually resulted in change in the real world? You seem to be operating under the misapprehension that politics involves telling the truth. |
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Not so much a case of not being privy to it, she might want to make some changes, and from what she's said, that appears to be the case.
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Knowing a change doesn't mean that you have had the time to work out the details. For instance, were I a party leader my party would be pushing for a Financial Transaction Tax on all Bank monetary transfers, however what I couldn't tell you beyond a basic estimate without Treasury and the banks doing some work on it, is how much that would bring in and as a result how much it would allow me to drop other Taxes such as GST, PAYE, and Company. What I could say is that I wanted to bring in the FTT and drop GST and PAYE and give an estimate on what they might achieve.
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Aha, you are indeed a rare beast in this day and age PW; a student of the Bruce Beetham theory of economics.
Its a good idea (I always liked Social Credit as an alternative to the two traditional centrist parties). However, I think you would need to put a lower limit on the size of transactions attracting FTT; you wouldn't want to go chasing small Mom & Pop transactions as they transfer money from their savings to their cheque accounts to pay bills, or collection might end up costing more than the tax you collect! |
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No, it's all done electronically these days, simply divert maybe 1c for tax for each $100 the bank transfers between accounts and it's done. Unless you are transferring hundreds of dollars you wouldn't notice, but it would catch a lot of the transfers that aren't being taxed now, like buying and selling currency and micro-trading. It'd also catch companies moving money out of the country and solve any issue with the whole buying overseas pays no GST thing.
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Apologies. Your whole post seemed to be based on the assumption the hazey, detailless taxes will be balanced with tax cuts elsewhere
She said there aren't any If you are just going by her wanting changes to the taxes she has been promoting since Little became leader, why can't she just say a general idea of the changes she want's to make? This is ignoring the fact there has been about 2 or 3 tax working groups in the last few years and they have all said a CGT for everything. Including the family home, she has promised to not tax. |
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Capital Gains Tax is just legalized inheritance theft by another name.
What disturbs me most about Labour in regards to this proposed tax is the way they studiously avoid ruling out CGT on the family home. They say stuff like "we have no plans to include the family home" and "the family home is not in our thinking" but we all know that these are just political weasel-worded gobbledegook for keeping their options open. Jacinda and her running mate refuse to be pinned down to an absolute answer to this question wheh asked directly, and when that happens, I become very suspicious of their motives! |
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Ardern does a complete flip flop on all Labours taxes 9 days before the election
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