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George Orwell said, “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
So let’s be absolutely clear – this Labour led coalition has no intention whatsoever of doing anything significant to reduce the gap between the haves and the have nots in our country which begs the question..
In my view, we tread a perilous path when we permit these matters to be effectively, swept under the carpet, because the revelations might be, too injurious to the public.
Terrible news this morning .More than 280 innocent people have been murdered and at least 500 hundred injured in a series of 8 simultaneous bomb blasts at 3 churches and 3 luxury hotels on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka.
Last week, as you probably heard, the historic cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris unfortunately caught fire.
My theory is that Jacinda was correct to blame MMP, if blame must be placed anywhere.
The debate about the CGT is in full flow but it’s mainly hot air that ignores where capital gains come from in the first place.
I’m really curious to know how you can have the politics of fairness based on the economics of selfishness.
That’s what you can take out of the Labour NZ First rejection of a Capital Gains Tax in any shape or form.
There’s probably some percentage of Labour voters thinking of going Green after the no CGT decision.The inequity, the unfairness, the feeling of loss, that a surrender came and stole victory at the last moment from the righteous fixers of the problem.