13-07-2023, 07:20 PM
(13-07-2023, 06:07 PM)harm_less Wrote:(13-07-2023, 12:00 PM)Lilith7 Wrote: No doubt they think that they'll lose votes if they have a wealth tax - but I'm sure there are more voters who'd be in favour than against it.This piece by Bernard Hickey sums up the situation very well: https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/13-07-...story-ends
Really - "didn't have a mandate??!'
Since when has that ever stopped any politicians from doing anything they fancied from Muldoon's rent freeze to things like imposing - with brutal speed - Neo Liberalism on this country with zero prior warnings as to their intentions??!
He should have just gathered his courage & had the chutzpah to go with the wealth tax - so sorely needed that even those few wealthy people with a social conscience have implored govt to raise their taxes.
Bloody politicians.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)