The wealthy trying to avoid new tax

[Lilith7]

At the moment we have a Labour government and national (lower-case deliberate) followers (businessmen) will be doing their best to make Labour look bad, like by declaring that inflation is about 12% and putting up prices by the same amount throughout the economy thus actually causing said result and effectively getting more money for less product as they are always trying to achieve.

Bring back price controls, running a supermarket is not rocket science.  Super-profits seem to be a normal expectation in NZ.

Agreed; price controls makes good sense.


The older I get, the more I think our entire deeply unfair system needs dismantling & changed into one which is fairer to us all. No one should have to go hungry or work 4 or 5 jobs just to survive, & no one should be making obscenely massive profits, especially when that comes in some way from the suffering of others.
As many of us know very well, it wasn't always like this. And what has been done once can surely be done again, but better.
We can fix inequality here & we should be doing exactly that; fairer taxes might be an excellent start.



This is an article from last year on what needs to happen to our health system, in response to an earlier article ( by a Dr) which advocated the 'rationing' of acute health care.
Which in reality translates to 'just let poor people suffer until they die.'

https://www.nzdoctor.co.nz/article/opini...healthcare


"Dr Connor’s arguments are based on one premise “The attempt to meet all the healthcare needs would overwhelm any country’s resources, including the need for other social goods, etc …..”. This is a central mantra of neoliberal philosophy, with its policies for free-market economies and the private provision of public service.1

High levels of unmet need and a creaking system should suggest a need to examine the underlying reasons for both and not rely on a managerialist technical solution.

It is obvious that a major contribution to the high level of unmet need lies in pre-determinants of health such as: poverty, access to primary healthcare, inadequate housing, and poor diet. The other main reason for the creaking health and welfare services, is the thirty years of underinvestment.

i.Multi-national European studies have shown that investment policies in health and other welfare services pay large positive fiscal dividends and promotes economic growth (i.e., for every dollar put into health services governments get more dollars back, often referred to as fiscal multipliers).2 Even the International Monetary Fund, a bastion of neoliberalism, which initially disagreed with the results of these studies, has since conceded that such positive fiscal multipliers do result from health and welfare investment.1
ii.Finland is an exemplar of a country that has shown what can be achieved by a policy of welfare investment.3 By comparison (Table below)4 our own level of social expenditure per capita is much lower and we can afford to do much better."