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This week Taxpayers Union Jordan Williams, Former Labour Party Chief of Staff Matt McCarten and Unite Union’s Mike Treen.
Issue 1 – The IRD report and class warfare in NZ, when and where do we start the revolution?
Issue 2 – Has the Cost of Living crisis peaked?
Issue 3 – National and Nurses
and Issue 4 – Green on Green unfriendly fire – A sustainable eco village divided cannot stand!
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BREAKING NEWS!
Meka Whaitiri the iPhone chucka is jumping waka! To the Maori Party!
Snap election coming!
Yes, I read that too. Apparently, she’s going to the National Party as it’s a better fit. She’s taking up Maggie Barry’s mantle.
Hehehehe! Don’t laugh too soon!
By doing this, makes them mowrees untrustworthy and labour could, should reject them in any coalition deal outright! Forcing them to jump into Nationals Waka or go up the river alone!
Which will end up with another election in 6 months or so! They’ll lose out on that one too!
Matt McCarten – bang on with the Councils.
My first working group watch – great effort team – quite enjoyable
General comment: very few women seem to appear on TWG. Not a real whinge, but are they regularly approached?
I was thinking that today too. And I would have liked to hear more from Matt McCarten in this episode, he’s why I tuned in but he didn’t get much oxygen
(Un)fortunately, unlike most guests, Matt thinks before he speaks, so he contributes less quantitatively and more qualitatively.
Probably because as Kate says the oxygen is sucked out of the room by Williams and Treen.
Most are probably too precious. He does have Yvonne Van Dongen and Maria Slade and Brooke van Velden.
Nicola Willis has made an appearance. Sue Bradford. I would love to see more women appearing on TWG.
Last week I couldn’t follow the conversation because two of the three blokes kept talking over each other. And it’s not as if Jordan Williams (one of this week’s blokes) needs more arenas for publicity: he runs the Taxpayer’s Union, plus its local govt anti-Labour spinoffs, and is active in the Free Speech Union.
Last week I couldn’t follow the conversation because two of the three blokes kept talking over each other. And it’s not as if Jordan Williams (one of this week’s blokes) needs more arenas for publicity: he runs the Taxpayer’s Union, plus its local govt anti-Labour spinoffs, and is active in the Free Speech Union.
Are you suggesting Jordan Williams has a big right wing mouth?
I’m suggesting every male in NZ is actually a trans woman and should compete in the Olympics as cis woman.
Not so much directly, as setting up rightie organisations: a sort of rottweiler for National and ACT.
Yes and he thinks by putting union in the title of his right wing business that people would be fooled. Jordan who?
Media, Lawyers and politicians apparently don’t like ‘old fashioned’ woman now.
“The old-fashioned women, you know the ones with wombs. Those f*cking dinosaurs.”
I love Matt, another wise owl. Mike Treen needs to have his arms tied to the chair, that level of animation in a person of his advanced years is probably not healthy!
Brilliant
The main problem with a CGT is that it’s double taxation.
The most fundamentally sound and theoretically correct way of valuing assets is as the present value of the stream of expected future after-tax cashflows they generate.
So when a firm improves its prospects, and increases its net revenue, it then gets taxed on that. The value of its assets increases as a result, which would result in higher wealth/capital gains tax (at point of sale).
Which would lead to our system being quite inconsistent because there’s another element at play here and that’s human capital.
Would you tax that too? Tax me twice whenever I complete an income-improving qualification/work harder/smarter?
Great comment, but too complicated for the Comrades and Marxists to understand.
Great comment.
Can we implement CGT by affording to pay for devaluation the following year – or will it just be $0.00 with a re-evaluation for the following years assessment? Imagine if the housing market keeps devaluating – the cost would be a govt nightmare or would this just be a paper negative value held by the govt until it goes up to offset it. Not sure I would trust any government to add or dismiss this from their budget books.
How do we separate retirement investments from CGT? Many have a Kiwi Saver which would be easy to leave alone with law process – but some have housing with rent open to easy CGT.
I agree in principle for a CGT on large wealth at time of business transactions but not on paper value not actually traded.