Come on Labour – Honour Michael Cullen with a memorial Capital Gains Tax

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Jacinda Ardern fights back tears in memorial service to Michael Cullen

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern choked back tears at a memorial service for Sir Michael as she read aloud the last text message she sent to him.

“Michael at the risk of sentimentality which I suspect you probably hate I wanted to say thank you. You will never know the impact you have had on me.”

“Thanks for always having time for me no matter what stage in my political career. Thank you for your intellect, your humour, your kindness. There is no one like you Michael. I am so lucky to have known you. Lots of love from me.”

Why not celebrate the political life of Michael Cullen than with the memorial Cullen Capital Gains Tax?

Or if Jacinda will point to her promising not to do that as the reason we can’t, how about the memorial Cullen Rebalancing Tax (an inheritance tax on everything except the family home) or even the Cullen Financial Transactions Tax.

Cullen showed more courage to change tax in death than this Labour Government have in life, it would be a fitting tribute that a major new tax be named after him.

The challenge for Labour is the challenge they always face in power, regulating capitalism and redistributing wealth.

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32 COMMENTS

    • Using what was always going to happen as a result of the utterly self serving actions of a corrupted tory cabal as the current excuse not to do what most of the world did years ago to counter the obvious damage done by profligate speculation, is both disingenuous and Delusional.. NZ not having a CGT allowed the criminal Key to open the floodgates to Chinese landbanking, and attract northern hemisphere oligarchs’ to buy up huge tracts of land to build their “bunkers” on, or under, when their predatory behaviour presages the inevitable pushback from those it deems worthy of interference/exploitation, à la WW3… Your “argument
      is without merit on any level… Stop waving your blue card.. This is no longer “Little England”..

  1. I am a cynic about this whole event … its’ been year since Michael died — little fanfare from Jacinda from announcement at the time— fast forward 1 year — Labour is it doing tough, and now Jacinda from announcement is choking back tears…what a disgrace.

    • Yes you are a cynic. Have you considered what the family may have wanted at the time and now. I think not. And do you know what Jacinda did at the time.
      I recall seeing the last interview with Dr Cullen where he said he did not want a fuss made and wanted people to feel happy about his life.
      The fact that a memorial service gave a chance for people to celebrate his life should not give anyone you included to disrespect his life by denigrating the participants in that service for expressing their emotions.
      You are stooping to the lowest level of politics the one can imagine.

  2. In my opinion, the problem for a Labour Party with good intentions would only be the last few 140 years.
    Our economy is a swindled fiction, our population has been buried alive under generations of skullduggerous bullshittery and our primary industry has been beset by vampires all sucking on the jugular veins of our primary industry which isn’t Auckland’s high-end, elite few flouncing about in Range Rovers up and down Ponsonby Road dahlings. Sos, but true and the rest of you will only come to realise it’s true when you start starving to death in your paranoid palisades along Herne Bay’s water front after you’ve eaten Floofums the Kurilian Bobtail and Bobsie Splash Paws the designer Labraspoodle. The same water front BTW that’ll soon be half way up the designer lawn by 2030.
    mickey cullen’s just another flouncing nancy with a neoliberal stain in his underpanties. There’s only one politician that’s worthy of respect and that person is Chloe Swarbrick and even she’s been seen recently running off to bark up the wrong forest.
    What literally no one, other than myself seems to realise, is that AO/NZ needs a complete and total reboot. An upending of literally every single element of our post colonial cluster fuckery of lies which eventually became legitimised swindles which now, after years of crafty crafting are known ever hopefully as our politics.
    cullen was a dull fart in the library. Perhaps he was tear-worthy to his whanau but to me, he was just another neoliberal Labour party member desperately pretending to be The Working People’s party while aiding and abetting in fucking those same People over.

    • You’re a joy.

      Your second last para is of course absolutely true, but reboots on that scale don’t come by.

      Your final para hits the sweet spot. As someone who knew Cullen in the public media from the eighties.

  3. Yes Jacinda and her Government set him up to fail by giving him the job of coming up with a workable CGT that was destined never to see the light of day. She was happy to spend millions to go through the motions. I’m from the right and have paid CGT death duties in the past. I didn’t like it then but can understand why a well thought out tax to stop excessive accumulation of wealth is needed. Jacinda can see the need but has no spine to implement it. The crocodile tears don’t fool me.

  4. @ New View “I’m from the right and have paid CGT death duties in the past. I didn’t like it then but can understand why a well thought out tax to stop excessive accumulation of wealth is needed.”

    All the more reason to have a capital gains tax as the cornerstone of Chris Luxon’s revised Tax Policy the New View. The right keep keep saying that Labour have no guts to implement a CGT. The right are fucking hypocrites when it comes to CGT, and humanitarian, or social considerations.

    • TRAH. Did I say the right shouldn’t have a CGT. I would be happy enough if they did so long as it was across the board and not just farms. Get off your high horse before you fall off. When I paid death duties it was under a National government.

      • @New View The righties want Labour to introduce a CGT, but won’t have it as a right-wing tax policy themselves. No high horses here, buddy. Wanting someone to do something that you wouldn’t do yourself is hypocrisy. Whether it’s left or right, or middle, hypocrisy is hypocrisy.
        What is hypocrisy and example? https://www.yourdictionary.com/hypocrite
        The definition of a hypocrite is a person (or group) who pretends to have certain beliefs, attitudes or feelings when they really do not. An example of a hypocrite is a person who says they care about the environment, but are constantly littering. noun.

        There’s no way righties want “a well thought out tax to stop excessive accumulation of wealth is needed.”

        • TRAH. You are obviously pointing the stick at Luxon and National who aren’t the government and haven’t been for five years. Shouldn’t you be calling yourself
          “ the right and the left are hypocrites.” CGT has been highlighted and then dismissed by THIS government so maybe you should save your criticism of National until they become the government if they do. You won’t be voting for either because they’re both hypocritical eh buddy.

            • Back in yer box Bob – to quote a very astute poster here.

              One News shared a poll around Luxon ‘s back-room strategists, who are already paving the way to backtrack on the unpopular tax break of $18,000 for people like Luxon.

              They’ll pander to the muddle (a Key-ism) and it will be a fiddling with the thresholds.

              I will bet Luxon’s six houses against my rusty Mitsubishi Lancer, that CGT will NOT, even be considered by National, National’s ‘Jim Henson’ Key, or next National-Leader-in-Waiting David Seymour.

              The hypocrisy is about pushing Labour to introduce CGT, but National and ACT, refusing to implement, or even consider it themselves. It might be too subtle and argument for you Bob the First, or the New View.

              New View presented a Tory anathema:
              “a well thought out tax to stop excessive accumulation of wealth is needed.”

              Read his post @’Bob the First ‘. NO ACT or National Politician would ever “stop excessive accumulation of wealth.”

              Try and be the first one in your family that wasn’t a moron Bob the Moron First

              • Thanks for the advice which I will ignore given it’s so stupid.
                I don’t know who you are but it’s clear you are a self appointed expert in everything.
                My guess is life is sad for you and jealousy is eating you up.You think life has dealt you a bad hand which is terribly unfair because you know more than anyone else.
                Try smiling start with a grin.
                Cheers.

  5. ” Why not celebrate the political life of Michael Cullen than with the memorial Cullen Capital Gains Tax?

    Bomber when your talking to Jacinda next put that idea to her and tell us what her answer was.

  6. A CGT isn’t all the answer I hear. But it would be a start. and some peoople would no doubt shed tears of gratitude for something done by Labour. We could stop thinking of ourselves possibly being described by them as Our Lab! Do it now I suggest, to come in before the election.

    • National and ACT and Destiny and New Conservatives won’t introduce a CGT.

      New view August 14, 2022 at 9:19 am
      “a well thought out tax to stop excessive accumulation of wealth is needed”

      A couple of dead giveaways as to why the alliance of the damned right, would not introduce a CGT:
      National “a well thought out tax to stop excessive accumulation of wealth is needed”
      ACT “a well thought out tax to stop excessive accumulation of wealth is needed”
      Destiny“a well thought out tax to stop excessive accumulation of wealth is needed”, means fewer tithes
      Newish Conservatives “a well thought out tax to stop excessive accumulation of wealth is needed”

      I think we’ve put New View’s belief that National and ACT will introduce CGT. Mike drop – reverb and repetition!

      • No Party to date has introduced a full version of tax on capital gain.
        Why because they believe that will cost them votes.
        So winning for the sake of winning then doing nothing is obviously the strategy of the current Labour Government.Not even an alliance just Labour Party politics.

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