Well, I’ve read a lot of posts on the tax cuts, but haven’t had time to fully digest. I looked at Farrar’s post and thought that there was no possible way of anyone calling this “for the rich”, but NRT disagrees. I guess I’ve got to go over the numbers and calculators to work out… Continue reading National’s Tax Cut Plan
Category: Tax
Bozell Column
Heh. One thing about the left, they let their own rhetoric displace facts when it comes to tax, time after time, sure as the sun rises. That, of course, assumes that President Obama will follow his plan to the letter, and that a newly elected liberal House and Senate will rubber-stamp his alleged tax cut… Continue reading Bozell Column
Tax Cuts Cut Goverment Income, They Don’t Increase Spending
Hm. Of course, this would be a little more believable if it wasn’t coming from a party promising everyone a $50 a week tax cut. But I guess its not a big-spending lolly scramble if you’re a tory. I’m guessing that IS returns home after being given a pay cut and tells his wife that… Continue reading Tax Cuts Cut Goverment Income, They Don’t Increase Spending
Tax? What about collecting the fares first?
Well, Aucklanders now know that their regional council wants to slap a petrol tax on all Aucklanders. This is to electrify rail. I have a better idea. Instead of taking money off the motorist, why not collect fares from those riding on trains? A simple idea I admit, but it’s my understanding that since petrol… Continue reading Tax? What about collecting the fares first?
Income Splitting
Blair Mulholland’s blog is one I started reading recently. His thoughts on income splitting are quite close to my own. However, mulling over ACT’s proposed $10K tax free threshold has caused me to adjust my thinking. If a man is earning money, not just for himself, but for a dependent wife and two young children,… Continue reading Income Splitting
Labour on Tax Cuts
The PM says… Helen Clark says tax cuts will help alleviate money issues for families Prime Minister Helen Clark says tax cuts to be announced in next month’s budget will deliver timely relief for families, and she doesn’t think GST will be removed on food. (I expect that’s the last time that photographer will be… Continue reading Labour on Tax Cuts
Tax is impossible to understand if you refuse to cut it
Here’s a good story. Some Windy City restaurateurs are kicking bottled water to the curb all in the name, they say, of saving the planet, much to the delight of the Chicago Sun-Times. But it seems to me reporter Rummana Hussain may have washed over a juicier angle by burying a key fact eight paragraphs… Continue reading Tax is impossible to understand if you refuse to cut it
Arguing yourself out of existence – don’t mind the facts
No Right Turn missed his vocation, he should be a stand-up comedian, not a blogger. Last election, National tried to buy their way to power by offering tax cuts for the rich. National promised to stop taking vastly more in tax than the government needed. Labour tried and succeeded in buying their way back into… Continue reading Arguing yourself out of existence – don’t mind the facts
We Need More Tax!
Ah, Tax. Bugbear of the left. Idiot/Savant opens up yet again with his own brand of hype mixed with desperation and a little chardonnay. But this isn’t just true of Labour supporters, but of New Zealand as a whole. To point out an inconvenient truth, the vast majority of New Zealanders are completely unaffected by… Continue reading We Need More Tax!
The panacea to all our wows
Let’s fisk Tony for a change… Now this is refreshing, a media commentator who realises that Government (and this election) is not just all about tax. I, for one, am pretty sick of the narrative (which Labour is part of) around tax cuts – as if somehow it is the panacea to all our wows.… Continue reading The panacea to all our wows