Watched Parliament last night, which is bad for my blood pressure. The Left (Goff, Dyson) weere bleating that the proposed changes are unfair and it is the government’s job to make everyone equal.
The idiots have not learnt. That is the road to bankduptcy: consider the Soviets, California, Coba… (but I repeat myself).
They do not understand that most businesses are mobile. You can close your coffee cart in Dunedin, and set up again somewhere else. Even if you are a professional and there are guild structures that keep you in one place, you can still move if you get pissed off enough.
Cactus did, and she gives the opposition a good hint of how to be effective:
1 didn& apos;t agree with what you were saying necessarily, but if tax needed changes, I can't see any here that are at all substantial.
We've still got welfare for families.
We've still got high taxes and excessive government spending.
We've now got yet another debate as to why GST shouldn't be hiked as it will effect low income earners. And the silliness of welfare to pay for the GST rise.
We've still got yet another government calling for a crackdown on beneficiaries. Hello, aren't you doing that already? And if GST increases they get more money? Why? Isn't that just more welfare.
Diddling with depreciation changes and returns on rental housing, there may be higher rents.
So I turn back to the Tax Working Group and again ask if you aren't going to rejig the entire system:
What was the bloody point?
via Cactus Kate.
Oh, and (thanks Helen Clark and Cullen the liar) we are bankdupt. We cannot afford to do the nice things like provide for people’s home care. Key is not adical. Radical is flat tax (one step, staring around 30K) devolving health and education to the regions, reducing central government to policy, courts, defense and audit, and allowing people to form collaberatvie networks.
Which is what we did ni NZ before 1935.
