This should be good for a laugh!
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Not at all. I don't think they'll get in anyway, and it won't matter to me if they do, although I would feel sorry about the damage to the country. The next govt. will be National with NZ First. A few baubles in Winston first's direction and hey-presto, one new govt. which at least will be better than Cunliffe and crowd.
P.S. Still waiting for this amazing plan to scuttle international companies who choose to pay tax where it is most favourable to do so, but all we've heard so far is some short sighted plan to raise income tax on rich pricks.
Apparently anyone earning over 150k is a rich prick who should be punished. The Civilian party have a better proposal than that!
FP, the handbrake is on right now. If we weren't exporting desiccated cow's milk and pine logs at higher prices than normal, we'd be in big trouble.
CGT should pull back house prices a bit, or at least slow the rate of increase. The Kiwibuild program will have a lot more of an effect in Auckland.
Is this the item you were offended by?
http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/labour-...earners-158236
See comments at the end of this National-friendly article. I think the top tax rate will only apply to earnings above $150,000 for each person. 36% sounds fair. And the tax rate for trusts is to be moved up under Labour, also fair. If the top 2% of income earners pay say 22% of all tax (and we'd need to check they don't mean just income tax) then surely they also have over 22% of the wealth too.
Mr Liu has gone quiet over the imaginary $100k wine issue, as has Mr Key.
No he hasn't read this: Liu: $100k not just for wine That explains that then. What the article does not explain is Rick Barker's & David Cunliffe's memory lapse.
The Herald last week revealed Cunliffe wrote a letter for Liu's residency application, despite Cunliffe's previous denials, and also Mr Barker's dinner with Liu on the Yangtze River after Rick Barker said he hardly knew the guy. Does Labour breed pinocchios or something?