Ah, so irrespective of which data we look at, we're faced with the evidence that Australia does NOT have higher inequality than NZ - both sources show the opposite, in fact. Thanks for pointing out how old the CIA data were (didn't notice that!).
Australia is worse on inequality than NZ? What's your evidence for that, Wayne? Here's the GINI coefficient for the two countries, according to the CIA: (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2172rank.html) NZ 36.0 (putting ...
Is that so? You seem keen to focus on comparisons with the US, but why don't you tell us about Germany, Sweden and other high-performance European countries with lower levels of inequality than NZ? Are high earners able to get out of paying tax so easily ...
According to wikipedia, big earners in NZ pay lower income tax rates than in any other OECD country except Singapore: NZ 33% Australia 47% Austria 55% Belgium 50% Canadia 59% Denmark 56% Finland 54% France 49% Germany 48% Iceland 46% Ireland 52% Israel 50%...
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