I say fuck the tax cuts, the pricks in power have gone way pass tax cuts, they are quite simply bad bastards and they have to GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So why not implement the changes as of July 1 this year then?

Come on Helen, you’re fooling nobody. You want people to still be feeling good about the extra money in the wage packets when they go to the polls.

Wouldn’t it be nice of we could find politicians that were actually more interested in doing the job they were elected to do (prudently and effectively manage the country) than simply concentrating on retaining or getting a grip on power — and that goes for both ends of the political spectrum.

It’s sad really.

Same thing happening this time with the so called tax cuts.

Michael Cullen has not delivered tax cuts. In real terms, we are all still paying more after this Budget than we were when Labour came to office nine years ago.

In other words, he hasn’t delivered tax cuts, he’s delivered inflation adjustments — and even then the adjustments aren’t sufficient to make up for the backlog that we’re owed. That’s how he can afford all the pork.

No, he’s trying to buy an election under orders from above. I bet his bottom’s so tight right now, he won’t do a no2 for weeks.

What a genius. Give the man a Qantas Award. Someone staple his lips to his desk and tell him “in dollar terms, the amount of tax paid gets bigger as your income rises, and in real dollar terms people with bigger incomes are paying more marginal tax then they are getting back in cuts”.

idiot.

I can see it know, Hulun brooding, gaunt and staring into the fire but focusing 10 years ago.

Mikhael, rubbing hands, attentive and rheumy eyed.

I just do not understand why Michael Cullen would place New Zealand in this position. Surely screwing over his opposition, who will now be even more likely to take over as the next government, is not in the best interest of New Zealand? Don’t these people have families and friends who will have to deal with the fallout of this type of bullshit?

And why in the hell is National supporting this?

Yes leader.

No-one is buying Mikhael, the punters think he’s a c@nt.

Politics gets real simple sometimes.

The disengenuous part is to claim that those most in need will be helped the most; those in need the most will be hurting more than they receive back through higher percentage costs incurred via GST, fuel tax, food price rises, rates increases, electricity price rises, schooling fee increases, mortgage rate rises (as fixed term deals roll over to new, higher rates) etc.

The most in need are typically one income, two or three kids, large mortgage, shit old house with no insulation and they’re getting tossed a few bucks in tax back plus working for families. Just give them their money back in zero tax for the first Xk if you earn less than Y , factored by regional and and have child/ren cost adjusters and make mortgage interest of some proportion deductible against income (its good enough for LAQC’s run by MP’s). Perhaps make home insulation a tax deductible expense – radical.

Whats bitter is Mikhael and Huluns last ditch attempt to leave a no win legacy for the next government at the expense of the New Zealand public; as long as they look good its all right mate.