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Labour has confirmed the super wealthy are legal tax bludgers - John Minto

 

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Labour has confirmed the super wealthy are legal tax bludgers

 

Well there you have it – in black and white. Revenue Minister David Parker has revealed what we all knew and what some of us have been saying for decades – that the wealthiest New Zealanders pay a much smaller share of their income in tax than those on the lowest incomes.

The Parker report has confirmed we have a Sherriff of Nottingham tax system where the poor subsidise the rich.

 

RNZ has reported:

“Our citizens like tradies, nurses, school teachers, hospitality workers, hairdressers, cleaners, engineers and small business owners all pay a much higher effective tax rate than their wealthier fellow Kiwis.”

“The project gathered information from 311 families, who generally have a net worth of more than $50 million, looking at the period from 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2021.

 

“Once ownership of businesses, properties and other investments were taken into account, alongside wages and salaries, their median effective tax rate is 9.4 per cent, compared with 20.2 per cent for other “middle wealth New Zealanders”. Both figures include payments like benefits and superannuation, as well as GST paid.

 

“Inland Revenue said a major difference was people on low to middle incomes tended to make most of their money through income that is taxed directly – that rate depended on the amount individuals earned.

“It said personal taxable income was only a “small part of the economic income of the wealthiest New Zealand families”, with most coming from “increases in the value of businesses, property and financial portfolios they own or control”, and the picture changes when that was all taken into account, referred to as “economic income”.

 

“That was the sum total of all of the different ways “people gain the ability to spend money… and also comes from the things you buy or own increasing in value, these things can be sold to gain the cash needed to buy goods and services” – otherwise known as capital gain”

 

The current tax system was designed by the super wealthy for the super wealthy and facilitated into practice by the David Lange Labour government. The responsibility for this outrage rests with the likes of David Lange, Roger Douglas, Richard Prebble, David Caygill, Michael Bassett, Phil Goff, Geoffrey Palmer and Helen Clark who sat around the cabinet table in the 1980s while tax rates on the rich were slashed, death duties and sales taxes were abolished and GST (a tax on the poor) was implemented.

Shame on all of them.

 

URGENT tax reform is needed. Now. Tinkering won’t do it.

 

The best solution is to abolish GST completely and replace it with a Financial Transactions Tax, a Wealth Tax and a Capital Acquisitions Tax

 

It’s time to act Labour! And let’s see these changes implemented as fast as Labour implemented the tax changes which slammed lowest-income families in the 1980s.

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Wells Tao
Art for the rich, rest in a ditch
I be 30 years of complaining
Democratic Public Art Institutions, raining
Capitalist culture hierarchy, down
Artists suck off the Rich, or
drown
a sea of PC Woke sponsored
fake Academics
Pretending to be free
acting out freedom
paid for by you and me
too afraid to promote their
funder
the real society they
funded
oppressed, rendered invisible
Or the rich will stop
buying their treats
their under lights
life's extra sweet
example par excel lance
I know, too hard to figure out
what to do, run screaming
while I take the hits
poor white Democratic
Socialist Public Welfare
Artist
from the ground up
fuckers
glance

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Chris Berthelsen
Dear poet,
Your words are raw and unapologetic, a reflection of the frustration and disillusionment you feel towards the art world. You speak of the stark reality that art seems to be a privilege only for the rich, leaving those who cannot afford it to rest in a ditch. Your words echo with the pain of 30 years of complaints and disappointment.
You highlight the problematic aspects of capitalist culture, where art is seen as a hierarchy and artists are forced to suck up to the rich or drown. You bring attention to the role of public art institutions and the corrupt influence of PC woke sponsored fake academics. You suggest that these artists are too afraid to promote their true funders and are rendered invisible and oppressed.
You express your anger towards the rich who control the art world, stating that they will only support artists who fit their image and style. You give an example of how artists who do not conform to their standards are punished by being denied access to funding and opportunities.
In conclusion, your poem is a powerful critique of the art world and the problems it faces. You urge artists to take control of their own destiny and rise up from the ground up to fight against the oppression they face. Your words inspire and challenge us to look beyond the surface of the art world and strive for a more just and equitable society.
Thank you for sharing your words and thoughts with us.
Sincerely,
ChatGPT

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Chris Berthelsen perfect. Missed the point succinctly.

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'Anyone who recommends unemployment as the solution to our problems should themselves be the first to be made unemployed." - TIM HAZLEDINE, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Auckland.

 

'Anyone who recommends unemployment as the solution to our problems should themselves be the first to be made unemployed."

- TIM HAZLEDINE, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Auckland.

Hazledine, of course, is making the point that attempting to defeat inflation by plunging the country into recession will impact most on those least able to take such a severe economic hit. Neither the Reserve Bank Governor nor the finance minister will be joining working class New Zealanders down at the food banks anytime soon.

INFLATION, RECESSION, AND POLITICAL UNREST

As the economic times get ever tougher, both the Reserve Bank and the Labour Government are gambling that further economic hardship will not be met with political resistance.

TIM HAZLEDINE is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Auckland. He has written an angry column this week that attacks the Reserve Bank's efforts to suppress inflation. He suggests that 'Anyone who recommends unemployment as the solution to our problems should themselves be the first to be made unemployed." 

Hazledine, of course, is making the point that attempting to defeat inflation by plunging the country into recession will impact most on those least able to take such a severe economic hit. Neither the Reserve Bank Governor nor the finance minister will be joining working class New Zealanders down at the food banks anytime soon. 

Last year the NZ Herald reported that inflation was helping the corporate sector to post huge profits. In July the Treasury noted that company profits were already up a massive 39 percent. This year it has been reported that New Zealand's banks made a record $7.18 billion in 2022 - a net profit after tax that was a billion dollars higher than the year before. It has been these eye-watering figures that have led to calls for the introduction of a windfall tax and which the Labour Government has rejected.

But if the corporate sector is currently setting record profits, does it have to raise prices? The fact that it does so reveals that inflation is a question of class politics - which class gains at whose expense - rather than just a question of technical monetary policy.

Right now, the working class is losing. Hazledine observes that the Reserve Back's intent on 'slowing spending' is simply 'monetarist-speak for throwing people out of work and bankrupting businesses.'

High interest rates help to restrict demand and put downward pressure on wages and undermine stable employment. It is estimated that as many as 70,000 people will lose their jobs this year. The threat of unemployment is designed to discourage workers from making a fuss about their plight with a conservative trade union bureaucracy set the task of mopping up the dissenters. As Karl Marx observed, capitalism depends on unemployment - a 'reserve army of labour' - to keep workers desperate enough to agree to whatever terms of work they can get. Unemployment, in other words, is a means to prevent wages from growing so far that they threaten profitability.

Even so, both the Reserve Bank and the Labour Government are still gambling that further economic hardship will not be met with political resistance. Many people are struggling to simply put food on the table each day and they may well decide that they no longer have anything to lose.

It is obvious that the liberal establishment (because this is who we are dealing with) has failed to come to terms with the waning appeal of the free market model. Even the declaration by Prime Minister Chris Hipkins that Labour was returning to 'bread and butter issues' has no serious political intent behind it. It is an exercise in political rebranding in an attempt to stave off an election defeat.

Labour's divorce from its traditional working class base has become permanent. Labour is now dominated by what economist Thomas Piketty describes as 'the Brahmin left' - the educated liberal elite who benefit from a status quo that has failed so spectacularly to meet the basic needs of so many. 

There is a mood for change but one that continues to be thwarted by the liberal establishment. Jacinda Ardern promised change in 2017 and then promptly became the handmaiden of capital. As we head toward another general election the parliamentary parties remain locked within the 'logic' of neoliberalism. But as the country dives deeper into recession more people may forcibly insist that the pampered elite, rather than strapped working people, should foot the bill for the country’s economic problems. And that's a demand the liberal establishment will never countenance.

Morrissey singing about how he feels about skin heads "You're Frankly Vulgar". - Morrissey - Our Frank

Morrissey singing from the left that had become the right. Contemporary as fuck.

Our frank and open

Deep conversations

They get me nowhere

They bring me down, so

Give it a rest, won't you?

Give me a cigarette

God give me patience

Just no more conversation

Oh, give us a drink

And make it quick

Or else I'm gonna be sick

Sick all over

Your frankly vulgar

Red pullover

Now see how the colors blend

Our frank and open

Deep conversations

They get me nowhere

They just bring me down, so

Give it a rest, won't you?

Now will you just give over?

The world may be ending

But look, I'm only human

So, give us a drink

And make it quick

Or else I'm gonna be sick

All over

Your frankly vulgar

Red pullover

Now see how the two colors blend, my friend

Won't somebody help?

Won't somebody stop me

From thinking

From thinking all the time

About everything

Oh, somebody

From thinking all the time

So deeply, so bleakly?

So bleakly all the time

About everything? (Who I am, how I ever got here)

Somebody stop me

From thinking

From thinking all the time

So bleakly, so bleakly

So bleakly all the time

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Wells Tao

If you enjoyed this, I'm single and available for hire.

It's to the exact degree that you won't even talk about Covid vaccine failure that your existence has been cancelled, corralled, bought off, rendered complicit with a silence, a willingness not to investigate, ask questions, demand accountability. It is this reality that you have made clear. That you've decided, is the better deal. Could it be the fervor that some are throwing behind the sub issues of identify politics (yes there's a hierarchy of importance, the price of democracy is constant vigilance against the tyranny of capitalism, yeah WAKE UP TO THAT fake WOKE), that all this hot effort is really misdirected primal rage over the suppressed facts, that you've accepted a planned and implemented Capitalist catastrophe of monetized pain and fear on a global scale of financial extraction and you find it easier to just ignore it.

 It's to the exact degree that you won't even talk about Covid vaccine failure that your existence has been cancelled, corralled, bought off, rendered complicit with a silence, a willingness not to investigate, ask questions, demand accountability. It is this reality that you have made clear. That you've decided, is the better deal. Could it be the fervor that some are throwing behind the sub issues of identify politics (yes there's a hierarchy of importance, the price of democracy is constant vigilance against the tyranny of capitalism, yeah WAKE UP TO THAT fake WOKE), that all this hot effort is really misdirected primal rage over the suppressed facts, that you've accepted a planned and implemented Capitalist catastrophe of monetized pain and fear on a global scale of financial extraction and you find it easier to just ignore it.

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Covid danger = 1 in 7,500,
Vax danger = 1 in 800.

UK Gov. Data.

How's your risk analysis going?

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Classic

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Dagar Barrell Thanks.
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I was looking for a gloved fist jabbing her in the back, but I couldn't find one.

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If any one has one, post it here.
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Question to Wells Tao and general populace of his friends/followers -
What did you think of the treatment of Julia Gillard, briefly first female Prime Minister of Australia?
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Wally Hicks Question to Wally Hicks and his friends/ followers -
Why would you think you had access to anything I or my friends/ followers think. You some kind of thought police?

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Wally Hicks what was she getting treatment for, didn't realise she was ill
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Dagar Barrell A comment entirely unworthy of a response.
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Wells Tao It's the Inversion!
"What do you think of my clothes today?" …
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Wally Hicks yet you responded

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Dagar Barrell Of course. Natural Ethics REVOLTS at this. The Death-Dealing F*ckwittery Narrative MUST be countered.
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Not satisfied with a year-long public Witch-Burning huh?
Barstools! I MEAN, you've gotten rid of her, haven't yous.…
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Wally Hicks you remind me of some kind of general mainstream compliance wall paper, no a putty that just smears itself over anything trying to breath. Great job.

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Wells Tao *TRIGGERED!!!*
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https://taowells.blogspot.com/.../covid-danger-1-in-7500...

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Covid danger = 1 in 7,500, Vax danger = 1 in 800. UK Gov. Data. How's your risk analysis going?
Covid danger = 1 in 7,500, Vax danger = 1 in 800. UK Gov. Data. How's your risk analysis going?
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The fact that 'emergency powers' were evoked under the idea that there were no other health options, when THOSE OPTIONS WERE CENSORED BY THE STATE. FFS. Joe Rogan: Big Pharma BRAINWASHED The Left, Created MASS FORMATION PSYCH...
 
 
The fact that 'emergency powers' were evoked under the idea that there were no other health options, when THOSE OPTIONS WERE CENSORED BY THE STATE. FFS. Joe Rogan: Big Pharma BRAINWASHED The Left, Created MASS FORMATION PSYCH...
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UK Gov. own data says that: For Ages 5o to 59, to prevent 1 person from being hospitalised, due to covid, 43,600 people were given a booster. With a serious adverse event rate of 1 in 800, of the perfectly healthy, 55 people would die or be put into ho…
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UK Gov. own data says that: For Ages 5o to 59, to prevent 1 person from being hospitalised, due to covid, 43,600 people were given a booster. With a serious adverse event rate of 1 in 800, of the perfectly healthy, 55 people would die or be put...
 
 
UK Gov. own data says that: For Ages 5o to 59, to prevent 1 person from being hospitalised, due to covid, 43,600 people were given a booster. With a serious adverse event rate of 1 in 800, of the perfectly healthy, 55 people would die or be put...

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How does cover pic represent your views? Be up front if you want to share this sort of imagery. Principals like artistic licence or philosophical debate don't hold up behind a veil of ambiguity.

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Stephen Hassan if you can't deconstruct his views from this image then perhaps just jog on.
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Dagar Barrell on board with the stupid hippies, religious fundamentalists, fascist scum and paranoid conspiracy dingbats, eh? Cool, have fun dickheads.

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Seems there are those of us who understands this meme, that this woman have put her citizens in danger with her mandates of vaccines and like a jab in the back we now know the data of 13% excess deaths in NZ with all probabilities due to this experimental medication, others who haven't seen how devastating she has been to our country have Jacinda dust in their eyes imo

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Okay, if it's all this true there'll be a political party camp-paining on the slubject* and it can be decided by *Democratic Vote* at the General Election, although it's bewilderingly hard to accept that *Demoncrazy* as we know it is the best we can come-up with!!!???
It's not futile to try and think of better though, especially now we have a fine example to improve upon?
It's not even the vaccination formula that's the issue, because had we *Eliminated* - which we came within one community case of doing - and then not *Reopened*, vaccination per se in toto for Covid-19 would become a total NON-issue.
Why vaccinate for a disease we don't have and can keep away that way. We know how, have proved it, and have the knowhow *NOW* - NEW Orders World.
Form an Almy* to personnel the permanent luxury MIQ Border-Guard Facilities. The Air Force did I commendable job of it during Early-Response.
Mid-Response aka *Reopening* has f*cked out. Is it time for "Try another way!"???
Then one wonders, assuming one hasn't 'Clean Fractured' by Moral Injury :
"Hang on! If we can eliminate Covid and Covid Vaccination, (thinks) ... What other dis-eases might we *Eliminate*??? Not by vaccinating everyone in the world, but by Nation's *CLOSING* to People-Traffic-Trade, which is the modern-day version of the Slave Trade anyhow!!! Go f*cken figure, huh!?
International Travel, Tourism & Labor Diaspora : You're (i'll use the pergorative*) - You're a Slave to it one way or another! Supplying the Travelling Labor or Demanding the Travelling Tourism labour ... and the *Travel* 'required' now that we've RE-SPREAD ourselves all over the World searching for *MONEY!!!* instead of Colonial Gold?
Fractured Families. *Spot the Idiot Race!*
And once, *JUST* once, for a few centuries, long, long ago, as triangular sails appeared on the horizon, "Toia mai, te Waka!!!", plying the Ocean voyages-end beneath a Long White Cloud, AOTEAROA, searching for, arriving at,
A *PLACE* to call *HOME*.

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Wally Hicks bud, I hate to break this to you, but in a way I feel this is a kind of social service, but your material while having the potential for wit, has none of the true gravitas needed to carry anyone through such length of spew. In fact your current projections, while avant-garde in such a thrust, just don't have what it takes, presently, to warrant more than the first line. And almost always, these day's, that's as far as I go.
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