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September 13, 2017 2:00pm by David Farrar

Let’s tax this

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Kimbo

But that’s so neeeeeeeegative! 😉
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September 13, 2017 2:03pm
- Maxx
  
  Is it negative if its the truth. And how can it be a lie when we don’t know the truth.
  
  Crap, looks like we need a working group.
  
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  September 13, 2017 2:43pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  They left out the hearse-chasing Dead Granny Tax, but then if they included everything it would be less like an ad and more like an hour long documentary.
  
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  September 13, 2017 3:41pm
- David Garrett
  
  About fucking time they took the gloves off…
  
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  September 13, 2017 4:21pm
  - Kimbo
    
    Yes, but then given your experiences, DG, you are of the “raze their city, sell the inhabitants into slavery and plough their ground with salt” school of politics! 😉
    
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    September 13, 2017 4:24pm
    - JibberJabber
      
      You say that like it`s a bad thing.
      
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      September 13, 2017 6:29pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Ops DG hit the report button in haste. Agreed 100% but they have been waiting for Labour to find the $11.7 billion hole. Steven Joyce was being too nice as Robbo’s interns actually wrote a $17 billion hole. That will teach them trying to get something for nothing and sticking them in a pa. Also it is wise to let your opponent alone when they are digging a hole.
    
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    September 13, 2017 5:38pm
SteveRemmington

I’m picking that Clarke Gayford is probably angry about this.
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September 13, 2017 2:04pm
- Boris Piscina
  
  He’s probably also angry with his parents. I would be.
  
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  September 13, 2017 2:08pm
- oldgolfer
  
  Can but hope.
  
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  September 13, 2017 3:11pm
- Salacious Crumb
  
  He’ll probably need a threesome to vent.
  
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  September 14, 2017 6:26am
Johnboy

That’ll upset the poor. They can’t afford ice in their water unless it’s winter and they can make it inside their rented homes. 🙂
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September 13, 2017 2:04pm
- stephen2d
  
  I’m sorry, that ad is wrong. The tax was not applied to the ice cubes in the water or should that be a value-add tax?
  
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  September 13, 2017 2:10pm
Bovver

Needs some dancing Cossacks (fixed)
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September 13, 2017 2:05pm
- Boris Piscina
  
  Very nearly a downtick for apostrophe crime.
  
  Wag finger emoticon.
  
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  September 13, 2017 2:07pm
  - Boris Piscina
    
    Upticked for fixing 😉
    
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    September 13, 2017 4:00pm
    - Brito
      
      Fart Tax? This is an issue which has been foisted on the Western World by (Weird) Al Gore. 30,000 years ago the world average temperature was 16 degrees C above what it is now. It caused coastal flooding (melting ice caps) which killed kauri. These ‘swamp’ kauri now give us a snapshot of that period. The 97% of scientists who agree that climate change is man (and his sister) influenced gathered at Al’s place one afternoon, and after singing Kumbaya came up with this BS. How will this tax change this inimitable rule of nature (that is climates are volatile and change whether we influence it or not)? Taxing natural laws is a cover for making money to keep a lid on progress and stop initiatives. They should hang their heads in shame!!!
      
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      September 14, 2017 3:07pm
- Kimbo
  
  Don’t worry, this ~~will soon~~ has already entered into the Labour chronicle of martyrs along with the Dancing Cossacks, the sainted Colin Moyle and the 1951 Waterfront ~~Strike~~ Lockout as a moment when the reactionary forces of fascism fought back against the people’s relentlessly positive champion. Soon Ardern will be spoken in the same breath as the tragic Rosa Luxemburg. What sadistic right-wing monster breaks a butterfly on the wheel?!! Time to summon the left-wing twitteratti to rise up and do battle. 😉
  
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  September 13, 2017 2:23pm
  - Viking2
    
    oh they have.
    The Rich Prick founder is back tomorrow on video no less to attack the Nats.
    That’s what you get for being a wimp and promoting your miserable opponents.
    
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    September 13, 2017 8:20pm
dime

excellent. im gonna share the hell out of this on every platform known to man
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September 13, 2017 2:07pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  this needs to be shared as well
  
  https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2017/09/true-scale-labours-lies/#more-333139
  
  Robbo the Rat Fucker, after our wealth….
  
  (He doesn’t actually fuck rats but I like the alliteration)
  
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  September 13, 2017 10:51pm
RRM

Absolutely spot on, keep it up National!

Makes the point but without sounding like a bunch of negative little haters.

Bill English just looks like…. a good boss. Will be absolutely stoked for him if he wins this!
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September 13, 2017 2:07pm
- Albert_Ross
  
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  In what way does this not sound like a bunch of negative little haters?
  
  Where is the promotion of what’s good about National’s policies? Where are the explanations about what National’s approach has slowly but surely been achieving? Why are people still being allowed to get away with saying that National has done nothing to address poverty, immigration, housing costs, water quality, quality of healthcare etc?
  
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  September 13, 2017 2:21pm
  - tknorriss
    
    Because it is nothing like the simpering “we don’t trust you Mr Key” ads that Labour ran before they lost to power to National.
    
    This new National ad is focussed on the issue that Labour has already announced a lot of taxes and as many more potential ones up their sleeves. So, it focuses on facts not personalities, and is done in a light, humorous way.
    
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    September 13, 2017 2:31pm
    - Albert_Ross
      
      Certainly it focuses on facts not personalities. That’s a positive.
      
      But it is still focusing on why Labour is bad. That’s a negative. Why aren’t they focusing on why National is good?
      
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      September 13, 2017 2:37pm
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Because every time Bill tries to talk about National’s achievements on Radio NZ he gets interrupted by a shrieking woman with a new, irrelevant question.
        
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        September 13, 2017 2:45pm
      - Psycho Milt
        
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        Ha ha, those shrieking women, eh? If only the ladies would step aside and let the men get on with running the country.
        
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        September 13, 2017 2:55pm
      - tknorriss
        
        Because the most effective method of advertising is to focus on one simple point. In this case, Labour taxes. Its only 15 seconds long for goodness sake. How much do you expect them to cover in that time?
        
        They have other ads that frame National in a positive light.
        
        A common mistake with advertisers is to try and cram as much content as possible into whatever space they have paid for. However, it often confuses the message, and reduces the effectiveness of the ad.
        
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        September 13, 2017 3:04pm
      - Sarkozygroupie
        
        Albert Ross
        
        Telling the truth is hardly negative. People need to know what they are in for. Jacinda Ardern hasn’t been prepared to front up in any meaningful way on the huge costs she’s going to impose on the voting population.
        
        Not just Cullen’s ‘rich pricks’ earning 50k, but everyday Kiwi battlers earning even less.
        
        And just for good measure, so we are under no illusions what we are about to be taxed on, Jacinda and Labour are going to drive that point home with a brand new ad featuring none other than, you guessed it, Michael Cullen telling us how just fantastic Jacinda Ardern and her tax plans really are.
        
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        September 13, 2017 6:20pm
      - trout
        
        Don’t know if trotting out Michael Cullen is a good idea; he is yesterday’s man; hardly a fit with the Ardern image; known mainly by the party faithfull; frail, male, pale, and stale even.
        
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        September 13, 2017 8:38pm
      - BlairM
        
        Because National are tits and everyone knows it. Bill is an awful leader, and his government is tired, arrogant, and out of ideas. But I voted for three more years of them, because Labour are far, far worse. They SHOULD be focused on why Labour is bad. It’s the best reason to vote for National.
        
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        September 13, 2017 8:52pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    National has done nothing …
    
    You have been living in a cave for 9 years – yes?
    
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    September 13, 2017 2:31pm
    - Albert_Ross
      
      I did not say that National has done nothing.
      
      I said that far too many people were saying, unchallenged, that National has done nothing. Why isn’t National addressing that?
      
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      September 13, 2017 2:34pm
      - Classic Liberal
        
        The MSM are too hostile and have short memories. Long term, steady achievements bore them. A quick, funny ad is exactly right now.
        
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        September 13, 2017 2:47pm
      - krazykiwi
        
        Fair enough. I mis-read your comment.
        
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        September 13, 2017 2:48pm
      - Goon
        
        Yes indeed….why isn’t National blowing its trumpet a bit more.
        
        As much as I’m no fan of Nick Smith things have moved a million miles in terms of water quality and water quantity since 2008. There is now a NPS in place which sets standards (the NOF) and requires Regional Councils to actually do a whole bunch of things to address water quality.
        
        To support this there are a large number of collaborative water management processes going on around the Country which brings a range of stakeholers together (…well except maybe for the born to rule Fish and Game fuckwits) to decide how things will be managed. These processes are a million miles from the adverserial situation at the which existed prior to 2008. Sure they won’t fix things overnight, but anyone who thinks a tax is the answer is a mong.
        
        For example, as the good folks in Maniototo point out, the requirement to pay water and fart tax will result in perverse outcomes. In that area (mainly extensive sheep and beef) an increased tax burden is likely to require landowners to intrensify land use to stay in business, with the inevitable effects on water quality that will result.
        
        Effective management of water resources requires buy-in, and must be done, at a community level and certainly isn’t going to be achieved on the back of an adverserial situation based on central government dictates. I really can’t understand why the Blue team hasn’t been pointing out that what Labour is proposing will take water management back almost a decade.
        
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        September 13, 2017 3:14pm
      - waikatogirl
        
        Goon: ” I really can’t understand why the Blue team hasn’t been pointing out that what Labour is proposing will take water management back almost a decade.”
        
        You will find Bill English’s speech to the Ashburton farmers yesterday addressed this very point. Along the lines of Liarbor taxing farmers who have been long been improving water quality so the tax can be used to employ experts in Wellington, who know nothing about farming, to advise farmers on water quality.
        
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        September 13, 2017 5:37pm
    - Kimbo
      
      @ Albert_Ross
      
      I said that far too many people were saying, unchallenged, that National has done nothing. Why isn’t National addressing that?
      
      They have. But in political terms, “explaining is losing”, which is Saccharine Cindy’s wafer-thin vision and moonbeams and monkey shit “relentless positivity” that avoids details has been so successful in the sound bite age.
      
      Now, for a change, Labour will have to play defence, and I don’t think “I am still determined to be positive and transparent” with two big doe eyes and smiley and/or worried face will suffice. 😉
      
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      September 13, 2017 2:49pm
    - Piniwi
      
      Your onto it tknorriss. The first rule of selling is KISS keep it simple – stupid.
      
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      September 13, 2017 5:43pm
  - Kimbo
    
    @ Albert_Ross
    
    Where is the promotion of what’s good about National’s policies? Where are the explanations about what National’s approach has slowly but surely been achieving?
    
    …But it is still focusing on why Labour is bad. That’s a negative. Why aren’t they focusing on why National is good?
    
    That is wilful ignorance as National have been doing it for weeks, months, years! But, sorry, Albert, I forgot. You are the only one ~~fair-minded~~ credulous enough around here to believe
    
    …a tax Working Group would not be selected to give pre-arranged results,
    
    …that Labour haven’t been sufficiently resourced these last nine years to formulate their tax policy (can we have a refund of our tax payer dollars that funded the Labour party research unit? 😉 ),
    
    …and “experts” should decide our tax regime without those of us who pay it being allowed to hear first what they recommend and then decide for ourselves via the ballot box.
    
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    September 13, 2017 2:42pm
    - Albert_Ross
      
      You may be misunderstanding me.
      
      I don’t disagree with any of what you say about the reasons why Labour is bad, and the reasons not to vote Labour.
      
      I’m not going to be voting Labour. I am firmly “two ticks blue”.
      
      But I am more and more dismayed at how little National is doing to present itself and its achievements in a positive light.
      
      There’s much that is good to say about what their approach has already achieved and why their proposed way forward is most likely to deliver national wellbeing.
      
      Why aren’t they saying it?
      
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      September 13, 2017 3:11pm
      - Kimbo
        
        English is doing a good job in interviews and debates. But for the sound bite nature of tv ads it is a losing strategy. Long on details, short on excitement. Who the hell wants an economics and/or history lecture…besides considered men like you and me, Albert? 😉
        
        Just ask the 1972 National government – in power 12 years, excellent record, and, other than Norman Kirk, “man for man the stronger team” applied to Marshall, Muldoon, Talboys, Gordon McIntyre compared to Hugh Watt, Bill Rowling, Matt Rata, Arthur Faulkner, Warren Freer and a whole host of non-entities and light-wights in the 1972-75 Labour government…
        
        And National lost by a landslide in 1972. Swinging/unaligned voters aren’t interested in what you did (or they would vote for or against you anyway, so advertising pitched at them is a waste of time), anymore than they are now in what the Holyoake/Marshall government did. Is history. For a sound bite you ad, you need to talk about now…and the future.
        
        Which is why Norman Kirk won in 19742 with “Time for a change”, and Ardern has had so much traction with her “vision” bullshit.
        
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        September 13, 2017 3:18pm
      - tom hunter
        
        Explaining is losing?
        
        Look, I’m in much the same boat as you. But the sad truth is that it is stories – narrative as they say nowadays – that works rather than facts and figures.
        
        As just one small example, look at English raising the benefits for the first time in 25 years, and then lifting the accomodation support. National trumpeted it as much as possible at the time, but it was greeted with “meh” by the still essential MSM, and I see little evidence that most people even recall it now.
        
        Given how pathetic National has been to date on this front I’m pleased to see them finally put Labour on the back foot with a simple “narrative” that is entirely in keeping with the bullshit of “Lets Do It” and all the other vacuous crap Jacinda has been uttering for the last few weeks – to general acclaim I might add!
        
        NUTS: Snap, Kimbo!
        
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        September 13, 2017 3:23pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Stole it off Cam Slater first – and it is true…unless it is a specific situation where you do have to explain…like “how much will a farmer pay with your water tax?/did you have sex with Monica Lewinsky?/when did you know about the Watergate break-in?” 😉
        
        You are right on the narrative thing. But both English and Ardern do it, or at least they have this campaign – “I was in Waikakamukau the other day talking to the young people about their job prospects…”.
        
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        September 13, 2017 3:28pm
      - Rachael Membery
        
        Because who would report it?
        
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        September 13, 2017 5:35pm
      - waikatogirl
        
        Albert, the media are not listening. Any time Bill tries to explain, it is twisted to become negative. Better to just point out the explicit facts.
        
        What was it that Cindy said this afternoon: “I am being relentlessly positive, National should be honest”. She is calling Bill a liar.
        
        The TVNZ news is asking “Is National running a smear campaign?”
        
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        September 13, 2017 5:42pm
    - PaulL
      
      I think there’s a difference between saying it and it being reported.
      
      To be fair, in politics you have to treat the media like a force of nature – you can’t change it, you work with it. Perhaps a better analogy is rub of the green. Anyone can get offside with the media, everyone knows how to manage it, you have to work with the realities of media.
      
      National aren’t as good as they were – frankly Bill is boring, and they don’t get as much airtime as they did with John Key. So they’ll have to work harder than they’re used to.
      
      But some of a media strategy is to get media to listen. So they need to puncture Jacinda’s bubble so that they can then get people to start looking at what National have to offer. Looks like the honeymoon is starting to end, and National are starting to get some attention again.
      
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      September 13, 2017 3:18pm
  - RRM
    
    Albert_Ross
    
    In what way does this not sound like a bunch of negative little haters?
    
    Well, there’s the whole style of the entire advert… wait, why am I bothering? Two ticks Taxcinda right?
    
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    September 13, 2017 2:59pm
hubbers

If you don’t tax everybody to death, how do you get all the “free” stuff 😉
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September 13, 2017 2:08pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  Not everybody gets taxed. Despite benefits being taxed, what is with that anyway?
  
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  September 13, 2017 5:37pm
- fylde
  
  The media lefties in grey Lynn may have counted their tax largesse (taken from wealth creators) a bit early
  
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  September 13, 2017 8:37pm
Old.Mickey.Blue.Eyes

How dare National make such an advert that points out the reality of the hidden tax plans by labour….over at the strandard they will be fuming as the truth tends to turn people off voting labour, especially when not distracted by the tooth fairy !
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September 13, 2017 2:09pm
wreck1080

Given that New Zealand is now the most expensive place to build roads , maybe we need more taxes?

Our cost of roading is disgraceful.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/96652489/proposed-ewl-motorway-project-could-become-worlds-most-expensive-per-kilometre-infrastructure-new-zealand-says
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September 13, 2017 2:09pm
- smttc
  
  Get with the programme old chap.
  
  It is expensive to build roads in NZ because of our topography and geography. I am sure roading is cheaper in all the countries traversed by the Great North European Plain.
  
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  September 13, 2017 2:25pm
  - wreck1080
    
    Yes, there are some big ass mountains between Onehunga and penrose haha.
    
    If you look at overseas projects, it costs about 20 times more to build a tunnel in new zealand too.
    
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    September 13, 2017 3:23pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    more like cost of keeping the safety elves and taniwhas and Banana (build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything) Greens in the style to which they have become accustomed.
    
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    September 13, 2017 3:25pm
- waikatosinger
  
  It would be hard to beat Boston’s “big dig” in this regard.
  
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  September 13, 2017 3:53pm
lifesgood

Will this be shown on TV or will they ban it for fear of hurting Jacinda’s feelings?
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September 13, 2017 2:11pm
- waikatogirl
  
  TVNZ are running it as Liarbor are calling National’s ad a smear campaign. ?????
  
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  September 13, 2017 5:56pm
davidp

Today’s Ardern promise to renegotiate our trade agreement with South Korea is just like Trump’s promise to renegotiate NAFTA.

Ardern is just a younger less-orange version of Trump.
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September 13, 2017 2:16pm
- Shawn Herles
  
  “Ardern is just a younger less-orange version of Trump.”
  
  Not really. On two issues, immigration and trade, there is some similarity. But on a range of other issues, Islam, multiculturalism, gay/trans issues, tax and regulatory reform, they are polar opposites.
  
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  September 13, 2017 2:36pm
  - davidp
    
    It’s partly a matter of style. Trump promised that he knew how to reform health care. It’d be easy. Trust him and he’d sort out the details after the election. Just like Ardern and her tax plans, or lack of them.
    
    Also Ardern and Co having a pop at Australia. They’ll force Australia to treat NZ-born residents better. How are they going to force them? No one knows. Just as no one knows how Trump is going to force Mexico to pay for the wall.
    
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    September 13, 2017 2:43pm
  - fylde
    
    Both offer no substance. Yes she may be a better human being than Trump but the bar is not high
    
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    September 13, 2017 8:39pm
- rangitoto
  
  Well she hasn’t yet promised to build a wall to keep out the angry farmers but she will need to if she gets elected as PM.
  
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  September 13, 2017 2:41pm
Dafixeruppa

I had to watch this on my phone as I’m at work and got strange looks from people when I started laughing out loud.
I was so tempted to share it, but I work at a bastion of union sympathisers…
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September 13, 2017 2:18pm
- Johnboy
  
  You poor sod. Surrounded by a pack of little bastions….how do you tolerate it? 🙂
  
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  September 13, 2017 2:21pm
- RJA
  
  Share it, share it, share it Dafixeruppa. Just start with “look at National’s new ad”. They will all want to see it. Not your fault!!
  
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  September 13, 2017 2:30pm
- David Garrett
  
  Dafixer: Be brave ya wuss! What are they going to do, lynch you??
  
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  September 13, 2017 4:30pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Hmm I am in a similar predicament, I am a teacher, and unfortunately, there are few that hold the same views as me. So I keep quiet, never discuss politics and don’t hang my Confederate Battle Flag in my office. There are a few vocal ones that are not afraid to sprout their leftist hate and vitriol; when they start I leave. In some ways we are oppressed…..
    
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    September 13, 2017 9:13pm
  - Dafixeruppa
    
    Yup, they tried that when I suggested that MeTu was a crook!
    Then I suggested that they were all enamored with an airhead…
    The “bastians” went hunting for my contract to burn it.
    
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    September 14, 2017 3:16pm
smttc

Frickin’ excellent.
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September 13, 2017 2:20pm
Grizz

Its actually not a fart tax, its a belching tax. However doesn’t something like that already exist in the guise of an ETS?
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September 13, 2017 2:22pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  Not yet Grizz, but Labour and the Greens both want agricultural emissions included quick-smart so they can start grabbing taxes.
  
  The farting cow will really upset the Left, so let it fart on all the way until 23rd September!
  
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  September 13, 2017 2:26pm
- Psycho Milt
  
  However doesn’t something like that already exist in the guise of an ETS?
  
  Hush! How’s National going to appeal to climate change denier nutbars if you go blabbing about its ETS?
  
  Of course, National implemented an ETS without including agriculture, because farmers vote National. Likewise, it portrays Labour’s plan for a less-completely-fucking-insane ETS as a “fart tax” because farmers vote National.
  
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  September 13, 2017 2:52pm
  - Shawn Herles
    
    “because farmers vote National”
    
    No, it’s because farming is essential to New Zealand’s economy, which National understands and Labour does not.
    
    Truth is we don’t need any climate change policy. Assuming man made global warming is happening, absolutely nothing New Zealand does one way or another is going to make any difference at all.
    
    In National’s case it was a strategic move to fend off a potential line of attack from the media and the Left, and in the case of Labour and the Greens it’s empty virtue signaling at the expense of rural communities and farmers.
    
    Plus, in the minds (and I use that term loosely) of urban liberal-leftists, those rural and farming types are all hideous inbred deplorable rednecks who deserve to be kicked in the economic guts. My god, those people don’t even know what intersex and gender fluid mean! Terrible people! Tax them into the ground!
    
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    September 13, 2017 3:10pm
  - Jaywalk
    
    No country has farming in any ETS scheme so National did exactly the same as anyone else out there.
    
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    September 13, 2017 3:14pm
- cmm
  
  “Its actually not a fart tax, its a belching tax.”
  
  Actually it is neither.
  
  It’s a “let’s sock it to the farmers” tax.
  
  As I pointed out yesterday there’s no valid reason to tax farts and burps.
  
  If you have a compost heap then that will emit methane & CO2. Tax that too!
  
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  September 13, 2017 3:10pm
Ed Snack

I feel somewhat aggrieved, I’ve been thinking that I should annotate all those damn “Let’s Do This” hoardings around need to be changed to “Let’s Tax This” for days.

Now I see that I’m not alone and not original.
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September 13, 2017 2:24pm
Kimbo

I have to commend the bright and breezy tune, easy pop-up graphics and comic feel. Given that all those are so incongruent with the content of the message, I’m reminded of Paul McCartney’s Maxwell’s Silver Hammer off the Beatles Abby Road album – and having to work on the “granny shit” that was that song did more than anything else – Yoko and Allen Klein included – to split up the Fab Four! 😉

Finally Steven Joyce lands a blow after making the old army general’s mistake of preparing a detailed strategy…that will win the last war! 😉

But wait for the accusation of “dirty politics” backlash…
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September 13, 2017 2:31pm
- Fisiani
  
  The music is light hearted yet the message inferred is profound. CGT and Land tax. Petrol tax and you won’t get your tax cut. Tax will apply to water milk orange juice beer and wine and even bovine flatulence and the only cure is Party Vote National. All in 15 seconds Brilliant absolutely brilliant.
  
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  September 13, 2017 6:38pm
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Considering National have increased GST, increased the excise tax on alcohol, increased fuel taxes, introduced taxes on Kiwi saver contributions, increased road user charges and added the ‘brightline’ test for taxes on land sales, then I don’t think National are exactly squeaky clean when it comes to new or increased taxes.
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September 13, 2017 2:32pm
- krazykiwi
  
  National’s track record is visible.
  
  Labour’s plans are hidden.
  
  What is Jacinda hiding? Where is her transparency?
  
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  September 13, 2017 2:37pm
  - Psycho Milt
    
    National’s track record is visible.
    
    Labour’s plans are hidden.
    
    And in 2008, Labour’s track record was visible and National’s plans were hidden. I don’t recall National supporters kicking up much of a fuss at the time…
    
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    September 13, 2017 2:48pm
    - greenjacket
      
      PsychoMilt: “And in 2008, Labour’s track record was visible ”
      True. And Labour’s track was a ballooning structural deficit.
      
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      September 13, 2017 3:02pm
- Johnboy
  
  Wash your mouth out. I was banking on the increase in super next April so I start drinking single malts instead of that blended shit. 🙂
  
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  September 13, 2017 2:38pm
- UpandComer
  
  Because all those things are the same as inheritance tax, CGT, land tax, and punitive water tax. Just the same. I like how it leaves out the other ones in the 18. Like the paperboy thing that never went ahead. And the increase in ACC levies which Labour says is a tax. I think Joyce said in the house that by Labour’s logic their failure to raise benefits is a tax. The Labour didn’t raise benefits tax. Should add it to the ad.
  
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  September 13, 2017 2:41pm
- tf78
  
  Yes, but they haven’t wasted the money and we did get tax cuts. Also remember ACC company/self employed fees have dropped dramatically not to mention car rego from high $384 ish down to $78-$130 odd. (not counting motorbikes because body damage from bike accidents are substantially worse than cars.)
  
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  September 13, 2017 2:45pm
- Digmen1
  
  When National put GST up, they reduced PAYE (if you were working)
  Sounds fair to me.
  
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  September 13, 2017 2:46pm
- emmess
  
  Jacinda’s only argument is ‘but they did it first’.
  Ignoring the tax switch and given that some of those tax increases were baked in, like the tobacco tax. Is she saying she was against those increases? Didn’t think so.
  
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  September 13, 2017 3:14pm
Huevon

Jacinda: we’ll increase taxes but won’t say how much

Public: can you say how much so we know what we getting in for?

Jacinda: desperate lies and scaremongering.
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September 13, 2017 2:35pm
- Johnboy
  
  I heard Mickey Cullen is going to be on the new tax increase advisory committee….that should alleviate any fears we may have of being utterly screwed! 🙂
  
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  September 13, 2017 2:44pm
  - RF
    
    The stupid prick is also fronting a TV advert for Comrade toothy.
    
    A little prick that bites the hand that feeds you…
    
    I hear he was too scared to shower with the other boys at Christ College.
    
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    September 13, 2017 7:53pm
Poppa

Poor Cindy has dropped her lip about this, it isn’t fair that the Nats should run attack adds

Poor wee thing
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September 13, 2017 2:40pm
Psycho Milt

Amazing to see that a vote for National will stop income taxes. Just to clarify, what will National use to fund the government once it’s done away with income tax?
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September 13, 2017 2:45pm
- tom hunter
  
  I understand the blood and organs of babies bring a good price now!
  
  Especially for soup.
  
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  September 13, 2017 2:51pm
  - Kimbo
    
    You are so vulgar and crass. All the best Tories know you use them for a fine pâté. 😉
    
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    September 13, 2017 2:53pm
    - Psycho Milt
      
      This all sounds very vague. Surely the voters have a right to know the details of what National plans to do with these babies?
      
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      September 13, 2017 3:01pm
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Soup? Only poor people or those of inferior breeding call it “soup” any more. We far prefer consommé 😎
    
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    September 13, 2017 3:09pm
- Lance
  
  This month’s most idiotic comment award goes to Psycho
  
  I thought ztev had that award sewn up but that is a doozie
  
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  September 13, 2017 2:53pm
  - Psycho Milt
    
    Awards don’t count for much if they’re from people who can’t figure out what an ad’s telling them, even after it’s been dumbed down for the thickos in the audience.
    
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    September 13, 2017 2:59pm
    - Rachael Membery
      
      You got it then? Well done, did Jacinda explain it to you?
      
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      September 13, 2017 5:45pm
- Johnboy
  
  Well listening to all the lefty wailers I suspect it will be from sale of body parts from all the poor that are dying under their dreadful, non caring rule of survival of the fittest. 🙂
  
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  September 13, 2017 2:54pm
- srylands
  
  They are going to increase GST to 22.5%. And reduce crown expenditure by $6 billion. That will allow personal income tax to be abolished.
  
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  September 13, 2017 2:59pm
  - Psycho Milt
    
    Without issuing comprehensive details of the plan to voters before the election? Quelle horreur!
    
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    September 13, 2017 3:02pm
- geoff3012
  
  your’e being psycho
  
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  September 13, 2017 3:21pm
Digmen1

The USA did not have income tax until 1917 when they brought it in to pay for WWI

Really goverments should only provide our defence, security and border control. Think how low our taxes would be.

Education, Health care and social services are only an invention of the welfare state.
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September 13, 2017 2:49pm
- tom hunter
  
  1913 I think you’ll find.
  
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  September 13, 2017 2:51pm
Ross12

Apparently Paddy Gower thinks asking questions about labour’s tax policy is “attack politics at it’s worst”.
Just because the public are showing up journos like you Paddy there is no reason to throw the toys out of the cot.
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September 13, 2017 2:51pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  How did he get that job anyway? Poor thing, was there a quota?
  
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  September 13, 2017 5:48pm
- Peter
  
  Almost all comments on this blog show up New Zealand journalists.
  
  I’m not sure who is influenced by their opinions, but I guess there might be some old folks home, somewhere.
  
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  September 13, 2017 7:00pm
marquess

Given Mr Joyce’s well-publicised inability to count, I’m taking this with a very large, 15% GST taxed grain of salt
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September 13, 2017 2:59pm
- srylands
  
  So can you please explain how the zero operating allowances will work?
  
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  September 13, 2017 3:03pm
  - Poppa
    
    By fleecing you and me that’s how they planned it
    Srylands
    
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    September 13, 2017 3:07pm
  - stigie
    
    You’re asking a tad too much there of the snowflakes srylands..?
    
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    September 13, 2017 4:04pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Seriously, you expect a lucid answer from marquess? He/ she may cope with the definite article in your question, but there are a few words with more than three letters….
    
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    September 13, 2017 9:20pm
fylde

Finally the message about Taxinda is getting through. We need to keep this up.
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September 13, 2017 3:14pm
cmm

What no “shiny white teeth” tax?
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September 13, 2017 3:16pm
skyblue

Good advert, short, sharp and to the point.
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September 13, 2017 3:25pm
- Piniwi
  
  skylue. What a lovely colour. It’s an infomercial really since Taxinda has not learnt to join the dots.
  
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  September 13, 2017 6:11pm
Sam A

I see Stuff ‘journalist’ Henry Cooke was having difficulty this morning persuading his Uber driver to vote Labour. So he resorted to lying: “I told him Labour had ruled out a personal tax hike”.
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September 13, 2017 3:26pm
- krazykiwi
  
  A personal tax hike …
  … reduces your disposable income
  
  A [insert tax type] that drives up prices …
  … reduces your disposable income
  
  A [insert tax type] that targets your assets …
  … reduces your disposable income
  
  They’re all the same. Less choice for those who work hard.
  
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  September 13, 2017 3:37pm
  - Sam A
    
    My point as below is, that Labour would have to legislate to reverse National’s tax cuts – what’s that if it’s not a hike?
    
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    September 13, 2017 3:55pm
  - Digmen1
    
    You could add that all taxes make it harder for our businesses to employ people, grow and export.
    
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    September 13, 2017 8:37pm
Sam A

Isn’t Labour’s new tax calculator basically a lie too?

Comparing with the status quo, when the April tax cuts are locked in…
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September 13, 2017 3:28pm
- Prince
  
  It is a very big lie.
  
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  September 13, 2017 3:57pm
gorse

Why is it that the 15% GST is always held up as a National unannounced tax rise, but convenienly forgotten is the unannounced tax cut and benefit increase that happened at the same time to make this tax neutral?. Voted today, go blue!
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September 13, 2017 3:35pm
- marquess
  
  Because GST is, by definition, regressive
  
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  September 13, 2017 3:44pm
  - srylands
    
    No. All income by all people is eventually spent and taxed. Nothing regressive about it.
    
    If you mean it is regressive relative to the current income tax rates, then yes you are correct.
    
    But it is not, ‘by definition’ regressive.
    
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    September 13, 2017 4:29pm
    - Piniwi
      
      Key factor is that GST/VAT are a consumption tax and that neutral increase by Bill English was a master stroke. Considering increased population and the surge in tourists. The latter came, took pictures and paid. Thank you for your kind donations. Come again and tell your friends.
      
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      September 13, 2017 6:19pm
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        I thought transferring the tax base from income tax to GST was visionary considering GST is a consumption tax and the dialogue at the time was around getting people to spend less and save more.
        
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        September 13, 2017 8:21pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    It’s a choice tax. Don’t spend, don’t pay gst. Best way to avoid it is to have a large interest only mortgage on a rental property. Mortage payments are GST free, and the capital gains far out way the interest of the loan and negative gearing gives you a healthy tax break too. My preference would be to have no GST on essential food, and no gst on fuel as it is already taxed. But I’d rather pay GST along with the gangs and the black market than pay higher paye while the gangs pay FA.
    
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    September 13, 2017 9:25pm
Manolo

Did Joyce wake up? Good!
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September 13, 2017 3:43pm
- Ross12
  
  Maybe he realises that many people have a very short attention span and memory so he is leaving it to the last 10 days. Not a bad tactic in my view.
  
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  September 13, 2017 5:18pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Plus we had to wait to hear Labour’s policies, it has been like pulling teeth, actually getting Jacinda to commit to anything concrete.
    Still don’t know much.
    
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    September 14, 2017 2:25am
lazza

Yess! Go Billiam!
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September 13, 2017 4:54pm
fluffykiwi

Spreading Labour’s word for them, brilliant.
wee note, does Labour have to include this Advert in their election spending as well LOL.
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September 13, 2017 5:00pm
fluffykiwi

I wonder whether as a last ditch effort to get across the line Jacinda will announce she is pregnant.
I mean how many women have managed to get married in the past pretending to be pregnant, (well back in time maybe) and then have an unfortunate early miscarriage. Clarke the call could be “Lets do This”.
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September 13, 2017 5:19pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  Not a joking matter.
  
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  September 14, 2017 2:26am
flipper

Kimbo, DG et al …..

This effort by W English and S Joyce is not quite up to the standard set back in ’76 by Rob Muldoon’s Dancing Cossacks …… or Bob Jones’ “Matt Rata reads comics” …. but pretty darn good ….. and very much to the point with 10 days to the GE!

Many more please ……….
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September 13, 2017 5:22pm
tknorriss

Looks like National’s ad is going to get a free showing on TV1 news because Jacinda is throwing a hissy about it. The Nats couldn’t have asked for more.
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September 13, 2017 5:35pm
- thedavincimode
  
  Turkey, xmas …
  
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  September 13, 2017 5:37pm
Manolo

Comrade Taxcinda and her socialist mob have been found out.
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September 13, 2017 6:14pm
gorse

Labour has brought Cullen in to advertise for them. What absolute desperation. They don’t realise how much this man pissed people off, and how he was a major part of their loss to National. I am sure he will send hundreds of voters to National.
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September 13, 2017 6:15pm
waikatogirl

Cullen (horrible man) looks like a ghost on the ad. Very pale, almost translucent – very much like Liarbor’s tax policy. ?
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September 13, 2017 6:30pm
- gorse
  
  Ten out of ten for that comment
  
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  September 13, 2017 6:39pm
- Victor Omega
  
  cotd.
  
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  September 13, 2017 9:35pm
ross001

How much is National going to tax water? Are they going to increase GST again? An inheritance tax? A land tax maybe? So many possibilities for National. Alas so few answers.
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September 13, 2017 7:00pm
- tknorriss
  
  National has legislated to reduce tax, so has a predisposition to give money back to taxpayers.
  
  Also, they aren’t promoting the idea of a tax committee who will have the power to recommend all sorts of yet to be determined taxes.
  
  On the other hand, Labour has an unrealistically tight budget, and enormous spending promises that is likely to need to be topped up by as much tax as they can milk from taxpayers in whatever way possible.
  
  So, absolutely fair for National to highlight this.
  
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  September 13, 2017 7:07pm
  - Piniwi
    
    This must surely be the quote of the day from Stuff.
    Labour’s Grant Robertson says “National leader Bill English has “no credibility” on tax issues.”
    
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    September 13, 2017 7:39pm
KevinH

Great ad, tackles a serious issue, tax, with a tongue in cheek sense of humour and it works. The Ad takes the pressure off the Nats and redirects it back to Labour.
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September 13, 2017 7:54pm
Piniwi

Now that an ad! Short, sharp and definitive. Might need a series of them though if they want to cover all the NEW taxes. It has got Taxinda in a tizzy but overtly helping it get free airtime. Tears ops cheers Taxinda. MLW recognition time Ao-tear-oa.
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September 13, 2017 8:07pm
Sir Cullen's Sidekick

My master Cullen will be on TV. That will be a great success!!
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September 13, 2017 8:13pm
- Kimbo
  
  Yeah, pulling out the big guns! Just what the nation needed reminding of – a smart arse who, as his last gift to public office, lumbered the nation with an unwanted train set. 😉
  
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  September 13, 2017 8:18pm
- fluffykiwi
  
  It should be as successful as labour’s rail deal sold Tranzrail in 2003 for $231 million to Toll Holdings Australia and in 2008 bought it back for $665 million and rebranded it KiwiRail all on Mr Cullen’s watch.
  One of the things he left the incoming National government with.
  Now that was a great socialist deal buy something back for almost 3 times what you sold it for 5 years earlier. (Because Toll were smarter than them and they had to buy it back – a clause in the agreement worked in Toll’s favour)
  And Labour were in charge of the Purse strings. Please never again.
  
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  September 13, 2017 8:22pm
fluffykiwi

Thinking about the National Advert.
This is to help labour supporters understand Jacinda’s tax policy in simple langue even the dumbest socialist should be able to understand, words and pictures.
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September 13, 2017 8:15pm
- Piniwi
  
  True fluffy but NewShub have a different spin on it for the LCD
  
  “Need a distraction? Chuck a dead cat on the table and one thing will happen. Everyone will stop what they were doing and talk about the dead cat that was just plonked down next to the eggplant parmigiana.”
  They are out of the loop and sitting on a limb with this one. The majority are actually waiting for the dead cat BOUNCE.
  Judging the growing distrust Taxinda has attracted by being too vague the latest poll indicates the dead cat has not hit the table yet. Expect the “bounce” seeing her with a number starting with 2 when it does BOUNCE.
  
  Elsewhere old Paddy is running interference saying Taxinda has thrown a distraction by dragging her grandpa into her corner.He does try hard bless him but most seasoned politicians do not use close family for obvious reasons.It might work in the Woman’s mags but never does in politics.Nice try Paddy but the new Nationl ad will keep tax as the true issue.
  
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  September 13, 2017 9:31pm
- Paulus Gnome
  
  And the word fart that will get them giggling like five year olds and minions, need to get ‘bum’ in the next one to keep the humour in the audience going!
  
  2017 election won on the back of infantile humour, who would have thunk it!
  
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  September 13, 2017 10:43pm
Digmen1

I just saw the new National Ad.
Great
But where have they been?
I would like to have seen more emphasis on the Land and Capital Gains tax, that bit went very quickly.
May be with some renters turning up to a house which says SOLD – sorry

And if only National had brought the income tax reduction in on 1 September in stead of next year!
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September 13, 2017 8:44pm
dad4justice

Just remember two ticks blue is two ticks free water for the Chinese.
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September 13, 2017 8:47pm
Captain Mainwaring

Voted today 2 ticks blue.
My conscience is clear.
Jacindazilla seems to be in meltdown after last night’s poll.
Roll on Sept. 23.
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September 13, 2017 8:48pm
BlairM

This is a good start, but it’s pretty mild really. National could be hammering them so much harder.

The situation now is very similar to 2005. Labour were looking tired back then, Brash had pulled the Nats ahead, and even weathered the Exclusive Brethren “scandal”, but Labour ran a very dirty, negative campaign in the last couple of weeks and managed to pull it back and get their voters out on the day.

Ardern has roused the regions in the same way that Brash roused South Auckland, and hopefully they will come through in the same way and say “no thanks”.
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September 13, 2017 8:59pm
- Piniwi
  
  There is some truth there BlairM but even today it was yet another school. Nelson School for Girls no less. One student said it was inspirational. If you have seen the young “ladies” that attend this institution they all show a lake of pride by looking like unmade beds.
  I guess it was a “girls can” sort of thing and she will be coming back after the election for the second lecture. “Girls can achieve and make stuff ups too”. No sorry the impact in the regions won’t be enough to slow her slide.
  
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  September 13, 2017 9:41pm
Digmen1

Jacinda will be running out of schools to go to for photo apps.

Bill English meanwhile goes to a tough charter school and gets a lot of respect and thanks from the students!
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September 14, 2017 6:25am
Manolo

Miss Ardern and Labour ought to be avoided like the plague. No more taxes, please!
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