No. It is not. That "rural ratepayers subsidise urban services they don't use", is an often used agreement by rural businesses to try and get their rates bill reduced. To contribute less! to public services. Ironically, in reality the subsidy goes in the ...
Rural ratepayers would do well to keep quiet about that. The amount of roading alone that each rural ratepayer has, at council cost compared with urban ratepayers makes the idea that rural ratepayers are disproportionately subsidising urban services, a ...
This lot are more interested in sellable. As in flog it off quick and make money out of it while they still can. "Foreign investment" being code for letting their cronies make money out of selling everything including the land from under us to make a quick...
If you have winner and loser Schools then you have winner and loser children, through no fault of their own. Finland's system works because it aims for a high standard for their entire education system. Something ours also aspires to, but gets knee capped ...
"Our contribution will be small. So we need not do anything"? Right?? Of all the fatuous reasons for doing nothing to play our part in helping to prevent a global catastrophe. Yours takes the prize for today.
@Traveller. Working lives were also shorter. And Married women, mostly didn't work in paying jobs. Productivity has more than doubled since.
Not Necessarily. Covid, when we were getting facts from real experts first hand every day, exposed how much the media were interposing their own ill informed and sparsely educated opinions during normal times. Especially when discussing a leftish ...
There was a time when universal health care was considered impossible. But, for a while we did it. When the country was, supposedly, much poorer than it is claimed to be now.
Not just tech companies. I think Yanis Varoufakis needed to broaden the varieties of those who make money charging rents. Often for the "commons". Such as the internet which was developed with State capital. Almost all capital accumulation in NZ now goes ...
Don't buy land in NZ.......................... Pick a nice stable bit of desert in central Australia.
In other words aiming towards it while developing capability is definately possible. And I suspect, would have majority support. Unfortunately NACT do not do "building capability"!
Please message me. I have a bridge to sell you.
Public servants do what they are told.
Just coincidental that it is data that will embarrass the Coalition of Clowns, sorry, cuts! Yeah Right!
Kindergartens locally, Whangarei, don't often have enough places to take local kids before 4 or 41/2 and havn't for some time. I know that from enrolling Grandchildren. Part of the reason is the expansion in population. Auckland refugees. Affordable child ...
Where is Piggy when we need him. LOL.
Land revaluations every six months? I suppose that will result in lots more employment. For valuers and accountants?
I was talking about CGT and inheritance taxes that are, in effect, wealth taxes. "Almost all countries in Europe have Capital gains and inheritance taxes. Wealth taxes. Because they help even up the tax people pay." I will rephrase it for those with low ...
Labour, including Hipkins, said tax changes were needed six years ago. Then when it came to the crunch, they rejected most of the tax working groups recommendations. What makes you think Labour won't do their usual trick of baulking at the jump, at any ...
Good luck getting public support for paying a tax, before you have the cash to pay it.
It would be even better if they had fully funded access to ECE for their children. Such as a place in kindergarten before their child is 4, 4 1/2, Which is the norm around here.
Or rent it out!
No. Don't generally listen to radio, or watch breakfast. Both are not good for an old fellers blood pressure. LOL
Can't remember if you were one. But I remember RWNJ's arguing black was white in here that Capital gains is "not income". Now you are saying they are not wealth either. Which is it. Enlighten me. Can always rely on right wing tragics for cognitive ...
Well. in fact they are correct.
Semantic bullshit. If it quacks like a duck....
A lot more than that. Considering those that opposed it, including those who want to claim tax off their expenses in making those gains, understand it. It is taxes on unrealised income that is unworkable. Enough issues with rates.
You are correct on Hopkins, and Labours, lack of credibility on introducing a fairer and more effective tax system. That taxes all income equally. Your comparison of taxes on unrealised gains, Vs realised capital gains is the opposite to the reality. Taxes...
Meanwhile. Slanted questions driving responses in a curia poll about privatisation of ports of Auckland. Auckland port lease: Mayor holds report yet to be made public (1news.co.nz) "If council could deliver a much higher return, would you support the port ...
Pretending to help people, while actually just subsidising extra profits for private companies. Typical. "Restricted to commercial childcare centres". Just like accomadation subsidies. If they really wanted to help. Which they don't. This is just "smoke ...
Yours is. Your link uses a very narrow definition of wealth taxes. If you define wealth taxes as any tax on wealth. Capital Gains Tax by Country 2024 (worldpopulationreview.com) List of countries by inheritance tax rates - Wikipedia Of course there are ...
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