Originally Posted by
elZorro
Your expressions of envy tax, (add fart tax) rich bastards, man ban etc, are mostly pithy, short slogans thought up by the National Party think-tanks.
But this is also a clear message: there is a much smaller kitty for funded R&D, and I predict once again that many staff are about to be removed from the Callaghan Institute by National. It's a new name stuck onto a CRI job-slashing machine.
Far from an ad-hoc system, Labour's R&D proposed tax credits are universal, simple to audit, and can be accessed by many businesses. A CGT is also easy to apply with clear rules, as almost every other country already has it in place. These are the sorts of policies I think NZ will flourish with. National has been trying for five years just to get back into a budget surplus, they don't have a clue what to do.