While CGT might have been a one-way ticket to oblivion for this government, the original problems that the Minister of Finance asked the TWG 2019 to address have not gone away. These are housing unaffordability and increased inequality, both of which are highly damaging to New Zealand’s future stability and prosperity.
What the middle-class liberals who dominate the leadership in the Green and Labour Parties don’t have any recognition of is that working people in New Zealand are radically overtaxed and deeply resent that. This is especially true when considered in relation to the benefits we are able to access through the public health, education, housing systems.
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.
Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: This week – The CGT betrayal and when the next revolution should begin
The truth that the NZ Left have to confront is that both Labour and the Greens don’t have the intellectual ability to counter neoliberal economics.
The question then becomes, what will the Left we do about that? Will we continue to vote for parties who pay lip service or look to other political vehicles?
Those questions are now being asked.
The parents of Nicky Stevens, who died in 2015 while in Waikato DHB’s care, have stated that the DHB response…
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.
I believe one could argue that the Pride Parade Board, who turned last years pride parade of 30 000 attendees into a mere 2000 this year with their woke exclusion ideology caused far more damage to the rainbow community than an Instagram post by a rugby player.