That was Then, This is Now #28 – John Key on transparency

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Frank Macskasy
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28. Transparency - Releasing Tax Returns

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References

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Scoop media: TV3 The Nation – Patrick Gower interviews the Prime Minister

Fairfax media: NZ PM John Key refuses to release tax records – what do we know of his assets?

Previous related blogposts

The Mendacities of Mr Key # 15: John Key lies to NZ on consultation and ratification of TPPA

Hekia Parata breaks law – ignores Official Information Act – claims emails “not found” – and it gets worse!

Letter to the Editor – Transparency in government – do we have it or not?!

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35 COMMENTS

  1. Sadly Key is a master of twisting words as he wants his argument to succeed, but ANDREW IS A JOKE Frank.

    ANDREW asks “do you favour the privacy act?

    Well well he must live in Alaska out of touch because we have the most aggressive “surveillance” on every person in NZ so the Privacy Act is just a fallacy now!!!!!!!

    That shows how thick these people are working for Joyce/Goebbels/Key.

    https://nz.news.yahoo.com/top-stories/a/25003999/our-worst-fears-proven-true/

    “The Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB, using technology and methods created by the NSA, has undermined democracy and basic civil liberties in this country, and we should feel a deep sense of indignation that our worst fears have been proven true.”

  2. Frank,

    You can see now that “Tricky Key” actually was meant to be saying; “since our 5 eyes expansion of our GCSB/NSA snooping surveillance we NOW are then most transparent place globally”.

  3. So far, we’ve seen two anonymous right-wing trolls – neither of whom have any ability to address the issue I’ve raised, and instead have deflected off into lala-land.

    I guess Key’s lack of transparency and unwillingness to meet his own standards cannot be addressed by National’s sycophants.

  4. Frank, At least you can see that treasury are more transperant then Key is?

    Question;

    Where did you see/hear TrickyKey say we have gone from $8 Billion when we took over from Labour to almost $100 Billion between 2015/15???

    Treasury have told us here.!

    http://www.treasury.govt.nz/budget/forecasts/befu2015/021.htm

    Net core Crown debt peaks as a share of GDP in 2014/15…

    Gross debt is expected to peak at $93.6 billion in 2016/17

    Question for John key;

    So “TrickyKey” come clean, you are deliberately heading the this country NZ into bankruptcy as Goldman Sachs did to Greece.

    As your partner in crime Steven Joyce said last week in Northland “Roads will get the lions share of our transport budget” then announced another $12 Billion will be spent on highway widening from Hamilton to Rotorua to Tauranga!!!

    And this will become a negative investment as all roading according to IPENZ reports that private vehicles pay 66% of the cost of their wear of roads while Heavy freight trucks only pay 53% or less, so we public are subsidising road freight companies mostly foreign owned???

    With all your big spending on flags/cycleways and highways while hiding your mates corporates riches in blind trusts to buy NZ when we default right like what happened to Greece did what more is left to flog off???

    • Well researched, Cleangreen. Funny how, despite Treasury’s own stats, National’s sycophants still maintain the myth of National being “sound economic managers”…

      You show them the graph, and they either ignore it, or deflect on “but Labour did this…!”

      It won’t be until we do suffer a Greece-style melt-down (or something similar), that New Zealanders might begin to awaken from their reality-tv-induced stupor. I just hope the Nats are in office at the time.

  5. Collusion and corruption and secrecy all on the same page possible outcome of the PP or maybe that’s the core problem with TPPA another diversion from the govt this time not of his choosing a few questions for investigative experts

  6. Key is about as honest and transparent as a — HUGE block of iron.
    Thanks Frank and please do not let the likes of Andrew etc. get to you. He is not worth a moment of your time or energy.
    Low life troll scum – brain buried in sand.

    Check out the link below and have a laugh.
    Nice little break from feeling in despair over our train wreck of a govt.

    http://liberation.typepad.com/liberation/2016/04/new-zealand-cartoons-about-tax-transparency-and-the-panama-papers.html

      • Frank ; Mary_A ; Cleangreen ; Elle ; Helena ; Wild Kapito ; Martyn – etc . — you and anyone else who may be interested , I invite you to consider sharing your ideas for a good cartoon and , maybe ( ? )
        I’ll work on drawing it up – a joint creative venture – why not ? ? ?

  8. One of Keys big self promoting marketing tools has been to tell everyone that he gives all his PM salary away to charity.
    People sucked in by this faux goodwill have thought , aw shucks , what a great guy.
    What the tax revelations will show is that he has given nothing away, but just made a big fat tax deduction to the value of , you guessed it , the Prime Ministers
    Salary.
    A neat little bit of deception to create the illusion of an honest caring philanthropist.
    That’s what money traders do . The art of deception.
    Leopard …….spots ……

  9. How can an ex-banker put in place by and taking orders from a child/drug trafficking Khazarian/Rothschild Mafia pushing corporate takeover of a sovereign country thru the TPP be considered transparent. Somehow all those words in one sentence don’t seem right. Or is it the word “transparent” that’s out of place and needs replacing?

    • Helena i couldn’t have put it in a more perfect way,Hes done his job well sold all cash earning assets,indebted the country to his ex boss,s(ex could be debatable)got the TPPA signed up.looks like i nice job on NWO board coming up.

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