I feel pity, and contempt for their utter lack of perspective on reality, and their casual, unthinking bigotry…Īnd before you start up with some idiotic and abusive rant, I went to school with the children of some of the most wealthy and powerful families as a result of my father acquiring a state house in Remuera, and me moving in with him at the age of seven. So, you either didn’t read the article properly, or are a sucker for tory game playing… I personally feel no “envy” for those born with a silver spoon in their mouths. The political project of National and ACT is to starve the State of revenue so that it can’t redistribute wealth in the first place.įor those rich pricks screaming they are self made and fuck us for wanting a slice of their bread to properly fund society, let’s remember the email Steve Jobs sent to himself before he died… Stand now and demand more from this rigged capitalism! The true demarcation off power in a liberal progressive democracy is the 1% wealthy + their 9% enablers vs the 90% rest of us. Lift the tax yoke from the workers and the people and place it on the mega wealthy and have them pay their fair share for once! New top tax rate on people earning over $300 000 per year. There’s no point making workers pay more to rebuild our resilience, tax the rich! The real demarcation line of power in a western democracy is the 1% + their 9% enablers vs the 90% rest of us!ĭo not allow their smears of ‘Envy’ dilute the righteous rage you should all be feeling! You should be angry, NZ Capitalism is a rigged trick for the rich and powerful. There are 14 Billionaires in NZ + 3118 ultra-high net worth individuals, let’s start with them, then move onto the Banks, then the Property Speculators, the Climate Change polluters and big industry. I’m not looking for socialism here folks, just basic garden variety regulated capitalism! Total hours spent at work per year (OECD): Our GST rate doesn’t even get us into the top 50 and our corporate tax rate is 40th while Government spending against GDP ranks 56th!Īnd we are voted easiest to do business by the World Bank! Our top tax rate is the 39th highest in the world behind all the Scandinavian countries plus Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France and South Africa! We are not an over taxed, over regulated economy! It doesn’t matter of you are a garbage collector, a dr, a nurse, a drain layer, teacher or tradie – if you all stopped doing your jobs the system can’t work.Įveryone deserves to share the collective harvest of civil society with public services and policies focused on the public good enshrined in the intrinsic civil liberties each individual has. In a liberal progressive democracy, it doesn’t matter what role you play in the complex super structure of our society and economy. ENVY the Rights scream at any challenge of their rigged capitalism.īernard Hickey has argued, “We could have gotten $200 billion in extra tax revenues if only there had been a fair tax system which meant that capital gains were taxed at the same rate as every other type of income.”Įnvy? Oh no my dear wealth pimps, incandescent mother fucking rage is more where we are all at rather than basic bitch envy!
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