I THOUGHT WE STARTED DOING THAT WHEN WE LEGALISED PROSTITUTION!

ZING! Thank you. Thank you.

I’m also available for corporate functions and bar mitzvahs.

Key promised reductions not tax neutral.

http://www.victoria.ac.nz/sacl/cagtr/pdf/tax-report-website.pdf
Page 16-17 is their list of problems but they miss one.
Making tax an ideological imperative not what is best for the economy against other economies we are in competition with.
We need to change the tax emvironment so that those economic warriors we have can compete properly internationally.
That means all socialistic ideology led taxes (envy) need to be repealed.

http://www.2025taskforce.govt.nz/pdfs/2025tf-1streport-nov09.pdf

so what needs to be done for the economic warriors we still have in NZ?

Now if you could come up with compelling evidence that it could be successful you might change some minds….

everything in this country is tailored to low income earners. fuck em. if youre on a low income, youre probably paying bugga all income tax. you income after rent/mortgage is say $300 a week – so apparently, $7.50 extra in GST is gonna kill these people. jesus.

Lets pump some cash into the pockets of people that will invest it and grow the goddam pie. drag the poor up kicking and screaming.

this whole thing is a scam anyway. taxes to offset lowering of other taxes ffs.

Can someone form a new centre right party please.

Thought so. The usual subjectively negative crap that typifies your response to any suggestion that runs counter to standard collectivist thinking.

Recent attempts to implement partial poll taxes have not been successful. Neither was the 1381 attempt, which lead to revolt.

Where’s the evidence?

What we have is working, with room for improvement.

What Russia had early last century wasn’t working and they changed radically to a new ideology – which turned out to be an awful failure.

Basing all tax on a single annual poll tax may seem to have some merits in theory, like communism, but in practice it is likely to be a disaster- and is as unlikely to be implemented as a communist revival.

Why do you think Kiwiblog readers would be intersted in observations relating to the blinkered mindset of a tired old one track collectivist?

“Has it ever worked anywhere?”

What you and your lot have come up with is sure as hell not working.

Annual poll tax. No other answer. Everything else is just deckchairs on the Titanic.

I haven’t seen anyone else suggesting taking all the tax eggs from a single basket. Most talk of broadening the tax base.

Does any country operate on annual poll tax only? Has it ever worked anywhere?

Clearly you know little, I lived in the UK for seven years, for the entire time I paid council tax (poll tax), everybody pays council tax, it is a great system and means that every single person pays their share.

And please, don’t give me that bullshit line about renters paying via their rent.

For some time now I have thought that the most unfair tax in NZ is council rates.

Those of us who own property subsidise everybody in a state house and all private rental properties, the sooner we introduce a ‘poll tax’ the better.

We all use the toilet, wash and use public facilities, so, we should all be made to pay for them.

Of course depreciation on buildings needs to go too as any building that is maintained is very unlikely to depreciate in nominal terms.

Where are we going with all this?
That’s what I want to know, what is the snapshot in the future?
What is the goal?
What is our intention 5, 10 yrs out?
20% flat tax?
No tax and gst only?

the changes must be Tax neutral, what a load of bollocks.
we want lower taxes for everyone, not just me.
we’re fed up being the 10% who pay 70 odd% of the tax after the middle class benefit WFF is taken into account!

This whole discussion is rubbish unless we talk about what we can axe from the budget and lower our spending to fit a reduced tax take.
VOTE Party Vote ACT, you know they make sense