Posts by mark taslov
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Jack Harrison,
All good in itself, but if a family owns vast estates and never sells them then how is the playing field levelled out to any significant degree and why will the poorest bear the worst brunt?
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to BenWilson,
if you inherit a vast fortune and the state takes 30%, you’re still inheriting a vast fortune.
Sure but if you inherit 20 dollars and the state takes 6.66 you’re not. The real question here is how was it going to get an opposition party into power? Once your in, yes I can see how it would work, I can see how it could be slipped under the masses pillow, but as a marketing strategy for a political party it’s not powerful. An easy sell is simply CGT on trusts (300,000 trusts?) excl family homes which is later widened to encompass everything else.
The key reason I see it as a death tax is that, correct me if I’m wrong, but there is no inheritance tax in New Zealand, so if I’m dying and sell my family home before I die then I can pass the money on to relatives tax free, but if I fail to sell my family home in time, then the tax is owed due to my untimely death. What is that if not a death tax? Or are they taxing the money too? Do I need to invest in a collection?
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Katharine Moody,
I never considered the US to be a threat to me, my family and my way of life before.
There not a threat to you Katharine, we've been in FIve Eyes since 1954 as I recall and before that, always allied with the worst of 'em. Most of those 88 people found to have been spied on in the Kitteridge report would have been under Helen Clark's Government, before then even this was going on. It is as John Key says "business as usual". 53rd state or whatever, farthest outpost of the empire. Tatooine even.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Farmer Green,
You seriously want me to have a go at that lot now?
I sure do Green, I’m always fascinated by your ideas, your thinking is in many ways revolutionary, so it's best you share as much as you can for us to digest.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Yeah there’s a lot going on some of it is mindblowing, though I think this may be one of the examples that has taken Goverment funding and now may be on the way somewhere else. But those logs, IKEA knew what to do with logs, there’s no reason a company like that should monopolise. Though if the carbon produced in building a car is more than the carbon the car produces for the entirety of it’s lifetime, how much carbon is produced when building a plane? Not that I think we're in a position to be choosy, compromise being the name of the game.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
Yeah, apathy won on the day.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Katharine Moody,
It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success
Thanks for that Katharine, so so true.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Amanda Wreckonwith,
Nothing is easy….
Mr Green, Chris asked how to make more money, there aren’t many industries to choose from so that’s a suggestion, we’ll just put that aside, down here on the rug beside the the slippers.I do worry how easy it is for top tax bracket earners to dismiss ideas on environmental or ethical grounds when NZ is literally swimming in shit and up to 48b debt for the trouble, and while children are living in poverty. Ideally everyone would be engaged in environmentally sustainable farming like you Green but where’s their land to work? Where’s their education? What are people actually going to do? All those beggars in Wellington, how are they going to be brought back into New Zealand?
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OnPoint: "Project SPEARGUN underway", in reply to krothville,
The first time I read it I hadn’t noticed the phrase “Telepathic Interception”, so I'm not sure how far in the future the author was writing from ;)
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Hard News: Time to Vote, in reply to Alfie,
Ok, thanks Alfie, the feeling with the CGT in regards to this and what Tussock said specifically is that it’s too big a net, I can understand why it wasn’t popular but there must be a way to address these issues by targeting the length of time properties are owned or something no? Looking back at the CGT policy just now, the inheritance component of the CGT was never going to be an easy sell, but the trusts component looked fine for the majority. But generalising, and regardless of the boost to the tax intake, something that muddy is not the type of policy that an opposition party should be actively campaigning.