ACT raising pension age

[Lilith7]

Yes, until they realised how silly it was.

Wealth comes from wealth. Intelligence exists as a quality in many forms but can be developed and built upon with education. Education unfortunately comes at a price and barriered access that limits intelligent people.

Very few people become zillionaires from intelligence, hard work, and sacrifice alone. To claim that everyone could do it is to ignore reality, and remain in that comfortable state of delusion.

You really think someone chooses to spend their days cleaning toilets instead of sitting in a nice clean boardroom? Maaaaaate! Yer dreamin'...

The recent Newshub poll suggested 61% want the wealthy to pay more tax, 4% want them to pay less. Kind of reflects this forum too, don't you think?

And we live in a democracy...

For some it matters not a bit how hard they work & for how long; they'll never be wealthy. Or even well off enough to have a proper holiday, own a house or even a reasonably reliable car.

Because that is the way the system is set up now. It wasn't always this way. It doesn't have to be this way.
We need to change it.

And the desire to move to a fairer system is a threat to those holding most of the wealth, or many of them. Although to their credit, a group of wealthy people recently asked govt to tax them more because they feel the system is unfair & know they can afford to pay more withiout a problem, so clearly some still have a social conscience.