It is flat currently though given the unequal impacts of GST.
Though if you consider capital gains as "income" it's probably regressive overall.
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It is flat currently though given the unequal impacts of GST.
Though if you consider capital gains as "income" it's probably regressive overall.
Ram Raids under Ardern & Labour :
There has been a 400 percent increase in ram raids in five years - and 76 percent of those being caught are under the age of 18. Data released to RNZ under the Official Information Act showed in the 12 months until July the police recorded 436 ram raids.
And what is the government doing about it?
A $6m ram raid fund (yes, a miserly $6m vs $56m wasted on Auckland bike bridge & $30m 'cost of living' monies given to overseas recipients).
But months after the fund was promised, not a cent has been paid out to provide protection!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/progr...emains-unspent
"But in an Official Information Act response, received on Thursday, prevention, innovation and change director Mere Wilson Tuala-Fata said: "No money has been paid out of this fund yet".
All talk and no action.
All spin and no delivery.
Labour & Ardern = Pro Crime & Soft on Crime
So again, the Official Information Act had to be used re ram raids to prise the information from the ‘most transparent & open’ government ever.
A government failing on every front and having to use every means possible to try and hide the truth about the failures from the public.
So - Ram raids are clearly booming. I agree, this is a bad look, particularly if it looks like the government is not doing a lot about it (but talking).
However, your criticism is clearly more general. Would you like to provide some balance (look what I did there) and give us as well the overall youth crime trend over the last 5 years?
In case you didn't know - youth crime is dropping (despite the Ram Raids, and yes - not just in NZ). Here is a great webpage where you can educate yourself to provide a bit of balance:
https://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-an...rns/index.html
So the question is - with which particular policies do you think Labour supported the Ram Raids, while overall reducing Youth Crime?Quote:
Offending by children aged 10-13 years has dropped in the last five years for both genders, across all ethnic groups and ages, across almost all offence types, and in all regions.
A falling youth crime rate is not unique to New Zealand, and the reasons for the fall are unclear and therefore subject to debate.
Much of the drop in offending by children in New Zealand has been because fewer children are becoming offenders in the first place – a very positive finding.
What do you propose they change without increasing the overall rate of Youth Crime - and why?
Mmh - I guess what you describe might sound "fair" to some of the "haves"... but certainly not to everyone.
Robin Hood on the other hand took from the Rich to give it to the Poor (and to pay for his own upkeep) - and his "taxes" have been neither flat (except you call 100% of what you are carrying flat) nor fair (given that he only taxed some of the people who happened to travel through Sherwood Forest).
I would consider a tax system as fair if it is considering all sources of income (including realised capital gains minus inflation, though accepting that we need enough pragmatism to make sure that the effort of assessment is not higher than the amount gained) and as well making sure we do not tax the necessities of life. Why would we tax income which afterwards needs to be replaced with benefits for a person to survive?