Originally Posted by
iceman
I didn't read Ferg's posts to be in favour of totally voluntary taxes, as you suggest. He is simply pointing out hypocrites like Buffet, Stephen Tindall, Ian Taylor, Sam Morgan and others that have claimed publicly that they want to pay more tax. Why don't they ? I think there is something seriously wrong with a tax system where something like 80% (from memory) of "taxpayers" receive more from the state than they pay in tax.
Taxing the other 20%? even more is hardly the solutions. Your claim that lower income earners generally pay higher marginal tax rates than high income earners is simply a load of rubbish. They don't. Look at the whole picture after the various payments from the state. Most lower and middle income households in NZ receive more from the state than they pay in tax.