Posts by Danielle
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Cracker: Another Capital Idea..., in reply to Damian Christie,
You can’t just point to a country that has higher tax than us and say ‘see’, any more than you can point to a country with a higher gender wage gap than ours and insist women should stop complaining about that.
As the Bearer of a Uterus, may I just note how deeply annoying and inaccurate an analogy that is? The gender wage gap is an *injustice* based on *prejudice* (and 'monthly sick problems', natch). Taxes are not, despite the apparently endless whining of people who should know better, some sort of injustice being levied upon us. They (ostensibly) exist so that the society in which we ALL have a stake is better and fairer and filled with less desperation and misery (and, you know, so we have roads and shit). That comparison makes me slightly hurly.
(Believe me, I'm hanging out to be taxed more so I can assuage my self-hating chardonnay socialist guilt. We are very comfortably off now, but ten years ago in America I had to sell my blood plasma for petrol money, and I don't ever want to forget what that was like, lest I become even more of a Whingeing Privileged Asshole.)
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Wait. There are still people who think our system is fundamentally a meritocracy?
How sweet.
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Cracker: Another Capital Idea..., in reply to giovanni tiso,
I fully realise that middle class New Zealand liberals are past masters at not giving a shit about any of that
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Cracker: Another Capital Idea..., in reply to Rich of Observationz,
You wanna see the people already paying by far the lion’s share of the tax all fuck off overseas?
Hell, we got Exile on Main Street out of it.
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Cracker: Another Capital Idea..., in reply to Rich of Observationz,
where people work for the challenge and benefit of the job
Yeah, but most jobs suck. Otherwise they wouldn't be jobs. People would do them for fun.
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Cracker: Another Capital Idea..., in reply to Russell Brown,
Attachments on comments!
They see Frog and Toad rollin', they hatin'.
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Cracker: Another Capital Idea..., in reply to Rich of Observationz,
That's a rather 'wood for the trees' sort of mythbusting, though, isn't it? Because even if a tiny minority of teachers are in the top tax bracket (I'm married to one of them, incidentally), why should *any* teachers be in the same tax bracket as Telecom's CEO? It's nutty.
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Cracker: Another Capital Idea..., in reply to Damian Christie,
I’m absolutely in favour of the CEO of Telecom being in the same tax bracket as a teacher
So, what, as soon as someone hits some magic ‘shitloads of money’ threshold proportional taxation no longer applies to them? “The rich are different from you and me”, indeed.
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Hard News: A Capital Idea?, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Thinking so far has been to make an annual net loss and use the capital gain to make up for it.
The more I read these threads, the more I realise my profound financial naivete. That would never have occurred to me.
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But you only have to pay the tax if you *sell the house*. Right? So if you're keeping the house, why should it affect rent except in some sort of nebulous future sense?
People are weird.
