The true demarcation of power in a liberal progressive democracy is between the 1% richest + their 9% enablers vs the 90% rest of us.
The richest protect their wealth from any new taxes and our social and physical infrastructure suffers.
The political project of the Right is to starve the State of revenue so there is nothing to redistribute in the first place.
The Māori Party identify this and have put together a Tax Policy that is as close to Socialism as we are going to get!
Te Pāti Māori’s tax policy
Tax rates
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- $30,000 and under – 0% tax
- $30,001 – $60,000 – 15% tax
- $60,001 – $90,000 – 33% tax
- $90,001 – $180,000 – 39% tax
- $180,001 – $300,000 – 42% tax
- $300,001 and up – 48% tax
Currently the top tax rate – for earnings over $180,000 – is 39%.
The party would also:
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- Remove GST from all kai and regulate the ability of supermarkets to hike prices
- Increase the company tax rate from 28% to 33%
And introduce:
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- A net wealth tax
- A foreign companies tax
- A land banking tax
- A vacant house tax
The enormity of what the Māori Party are espousing here can not be ignored.
Labour is here to manage under regulated capitalism (and let the free market do the rest), the Greens are here to try and add the cost of pollution into the price (and let the free market do the rest) while the Māori Party are actually here to disrupt capitalism!
Right now in NZ we have 25 000 people on the social housing wait list, we spend $1million per day Kettling beneficiaries into unsafe motels, barely 50% of our students were regularly attending class in term 1, Home ownership is at its lowest rate in 70 years, there are 200 000 children in poverty, 55% of Kiwis are struggling financially, we are facing the worst food inflation for 30 years, there’s 100 000 homeless and the planet is melting before our eyes!
Normally the wealthy can rely on the fecklessness of the Greens or the cowardice of Labour to do nothing meaningful on Tax Policy, but John Tamihere is a heavy hitting working class boyver boy who is going to make Chippy tax the rich!
Left Wing Pakeha have every reason to vote for Māori Party Tax Policy this election.
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I’m considering it. Labour are a lost cause. They are a bunch of conservative neoliberals who keep betraying us. The Greens have disappointed me for years, and despite a recent re-focus on issues that matter, have lost my vote.
just no
We tax transactions of labour, even the most minor at 14%.
We tax transactions of goods and services at 15%.
Yet, with few exceptions, we don’t tax transactions of capital.
Imagine a fair society in which all transactions involving the transfer of capital assets were taxed in the same way all labour and all goods and all services are taxed.
The powerful forces of capitalism will never allow that.
Of course, it is madness not to vote for Te Pati Maori, they have the best tax policy and the best policy on the number one issue, climate change!
The Maori Party won’t be in Government, so their policies are irrelevant, even if they promise to take back all the land or pay beneficiaries $50k regardless of race, it simply won’t happen.
I would love to do this!!! but National and Act will get in.
Vote Labour….?
Agree 100%!
The thousands – even many more – pensioners who receive only their pension or just a tad more pocket-money, should seriously consider Party-Vote The Maori Party.
With the $700 winter energy supplement going, thanks to NatAct, a married person will net around $$2,000 extra income per year. Maori Party policy will be no tax below $30,000 = about $2700 less the winter energy supplement = $,2000 extra income per year ($38 + extra a week in your pocket).
What’s not to like about that, Mr and Mrs Pensioner?
Wold you trade your democratic “one person one vote” for a few baubles? Baubles that are as easily given as taken away? Once you lose the democratic “one person one vote”, what is to stop the politburo from increasing your taxes? Nothing!
Seriously, Gerrit, there’s nothing so fragile as ‘democracy’ when one party can raise seven times as much money to spend on an election campaign than the other main party. That bare-faced bribery is scandalous and the sooner it is stopped, the sooner some measure of ‘democracy’ will be restored.
But don’t hold your breath.
Or legislating for our inept security services to spy on us eh Gerrit!
Labour could have done this with their full majority, but you think they will do so cause the Maori Party? Good grief, you actually believe your own hype, which is based on nothing more then wishful thinking.
And you believe your own hype, which is based on a hard right belief.
you mean based on delusion
Every reason maybe expect they don’t believe in Democracy
Problem is that the government wants to segregate the systems in NZ like health care into Maori and Pacific Islanders and everyone else. When you only have 5 million people and a free health care system but want to have 13.2 billion of the health care put into a secondary health sector run by woke agendas with separate everything, then obviously the waiting lists and staff is going to be further stretched to breaking point.
Woke based funding for housing seems to have provided few fruit even for it’s targets https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/te-puni-kokiri-under-fire-from-whangarei-couple-living-in-run-down-home/FEDYSY6JHNHJJK4AMICDBJQXJI/ (unless publicity is involved) but a hell of a lot of wealthy woke government charities and organisations, CEO’s, construction workers and consultants.
‘Staggering’ cost of public sector CEO departure
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/staggering-cost-of-public-sector-ceo-departure/M4KRHVGMUFD7HG65G6TWYUMHMQ/
Not helping youth or Maori youth or race relations when people in charge are allowed to take, take, take, and even worse it it is supposed to help a group.
Better to put all the money into one system and then run it well, without woke siphoning all the money out for various groups that tend to just start helping themselves with the lack of rigour of the spray of borrowed government money.
Former domestic violence prevention charity head sentenced over fraud
https://sfo.govt.nz/media-cases/media-releases/former-domestic-violence-prevention-charity-head-sentenced-over-fraud/
(Good to know that if you and your mate steal $260,000 from a charity, you only have to pay $3k back! with NZ ‘justice’). Then they wonder why so many people are stealing in NZ in positions of power!
Thanks savenz for keeping the actuality of everything in front of us so we look at the whole picture. The mirage of matters confuses.
And honest hard working beekeepers fall foul to a new bee disease of human foulbrood. A bloke brooding over how he could have, should have, more provoked foul behaviour!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/496637/missing-damaged-beehives-result-in-120k-loss-for-beekeepers-conviction-for-greymouth-man
…Del Edwin Ritchie lived a short distance from two sites within the Grey District where the beekeepers kept their hives….
Both built their own hives and marked them distinctively so they could be identified. They estimated each hive – including the honey and the bees within – was worth about $2000.
In early 2019, one of the beekeepers found around seven of his hives had been tampered with and the contents scattered, a District Court decision, released this week, detailed.
Several months later another 20 hives had been damaged and seven had vanished.
That same year, a third-generation beekeeper found eight of his beehives vandalised, components cut from the boxes and thrown into a gully.
A month later, he found 18 of his hives damaged and destroyed, losing him around $15,000 in honey.
Both complainants made statements to police who then went to Edwin’s address in March 2020 where they noted numerous hives around his property.
The police reported he became aggressive and told officers that “other beekeepers could f**k off” and they had no right to have hives in his area taking pollen from his flowers.
Police then searched his property and recovered 69 boxes, 18 bottom boards, 20 lids and other identifiable beehive components, all of which belonged to the complainants.
“His explanation that the bees were stealing his nectar, in my view, does show some intent to do something to the hives that was illegal and therefore an imprisonable offence.”
Edwin was found guilty and convicted.
He was sentenced to 12 months of supervision and ordered to pay $20,000 in reparation..
The situation in NZ will get worse and anti-social people who come from poor, struggling families possibly resorting often to hard drugs or alcohol, will become a greater menace to humane people staying alive. The stealing will involve armed defence against the behaviours. More arson, will involve in loss of housing and crops and problems in jail. The death penalty will have to be brought in again. AI will be put forward as the way to cope with addled humans. The lack of caring for humans that has been fallacious twaddle for decades as shown by Lake Alice reports and Oranga Tamariki kidnapping, will be everyday and short of bloodshed that will never be forgotten. But it will be cloaked in caring laws that look for illegal behaviour in every word, whether intended or not or referring to truthful occurrences.
Looking at TPM overall tax policies, it’s 100% from me.
It is always possible to find negative shit about both brown people and white people in Aotearoa and the sort of shit up here is actually racist. Is there nothing good about the brown people and what they have done that any of you can point to.
I doubt any of you actually have any idea off what co-governance actually means.
My thought about no tax for low income is that it it places the small earners eternally in a position of being dependents, rather than contributors sharing in the running of their democracy which is their home country. It gives a reason for those who place money high and see themselves meritorious with it, to look down on those who they can put down as non-payers – though of course, it may be what they are themselves as we know the rich can evade well themselves.
So I suggest 5% base on everyone even kids who are doing regular formal work – tax payments say that we are all in this together and proud independent people pay tax, but demand that everyone pay their bit according to their means, progressive tax.
It’s perverse but it’s better that TPM get as many electorate seats as possible and as little party vote. That way overhang seats are created and say if parliament increases to 124 mps (4 overhang) then National/Act would need 63 mps to rule making it much more likely TPM would hold balance of power and get some policy wins.
Even though TPM WON’T be the Govt or have a significant presence (20+ MP’s), voting for TPM because of their tax ideas make a LOT of sense !
When inevitably Natz or LINO win, they can (with SOME justification) claim, ‘look, neither of us offered much change to the tax system, and YET we got 70+% of the votes. So CLEARLY not many people, agree that our tax system is unfair. In fact they agree with us, that is about where it should be’ …..or similar comments.
So this is our ONLY way to say to politicians, we think our tax system is awful and CAUSES MOST of NZ’s problems.
Whether they listen, e.g Cannabis reform, is another thing. BUT, they wont be able to claim, they didn’t KNOW, we thought ‘that way’.
Their woke as fuck!
Your political analysis is defined by your ability in spelling.
I am coming round to the idea that to contradict my position on voting for none of the parties in parliament that I may support them with my party vote despite the level of criticism I have consistently given Tamihere and its alignment with the shysters corrupt government.
I have been looking closely at their policies.
I have listened to Waititi and Ngarewa Packer being interviewed and they seem to me to be principled and forthright on their position to the questions asked. I came away reasonably impressed with both co leaders and this TMP seems very different to the 2004-17 vehicle that stood by and allowed the Nasties led by that shyster and his deputy to enact and support policies that hurt many Maori and non Maori.
At this stage they are the only party who are advocating real tax policy reform that are becoming an urgent priority although will not see the light of day for many years to come.
TMP are here for the long term and it is encouraging that they are appealing to the millennials to step forward and stand for political representation.
I will need to study more about Maori culture to understand their approach to politics and how that will work.
My studies on colonialism and Maori protocols for my qualification have opened my mind to forming opinions and looking at different approaches to the current status quo.
I am keeping my options open although the ” options ” are severely limited for left wing representation in the run up to this general election.
The greens have lost my vote as they have become only marginally less bad than the German Habeck/Baerback led greens ,,,, both parodys of what a green party should be.
Along with their tax policy,,,,the maori party provide the only push-back against the corporate take-over, sellout and asset stripping of AoNz,,,,, that the TPPA and their National/Act/Labour lawmaking enablers represent.
I also doubt they want to be North Atlantic lackeys https://cdn.thewire.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/23162516/46851551172_1656c869e5_k-1200×600.jpg
Or members of “Five Eyes today’s axis of white supremacy” …..
….. “Five Eyes alliance members are all English-speaking countries. The formation of four states, except the UK, is the result of British colonization. Those countries share the Anglo-Saxon civilization. The Five Eyes countries have been brought together by the US to become the “center of the West.” They have a strong sense of civilization superiority.”
So there are a few very good reasons to vote for the maori party ,,,, which I as an Awake pakeha will be doing.
With 90% of the problems in the health system caused by what goes into people’s stomach, lungs & veins a tax system that reflects that would be my choice for the best long term fix for health. While some are really upset at the thought that poor brown people might get access to treatments that wealthy people have monopolised for decades they should be asking why the disease problem exists in the first place.
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