19-07-2023, 04:27 PM
I'm guessing he doesn't do irony. 
He's complaining about the way in which 'National & Labour have robbed lower income earners"
That is precisely what the greed based Neo Liberalism - which HE helped impose on this country - has been doing since it began.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/live-updates/18...t-the-plot
"Douglas wrote: “Not satisfied with the way National and Labour have robbed lower income earners of $60 per week over the last 13 years via bracket creep, Act wants to go further. They want to keep bracket creep in place and then use the extra billion dollars-plus of taxes per year … to lower the highest income earners’ in New Zealand personal income taxes. Really, this is not the Act party I formed in 1993.”
Seymour, whose party is today polling over 12%, told the Spinoff in response: “Sir Roger is possibly frustrated that Act is not as radical as he wants it to be. Our tax policy today is much less radical than the 23% flat tax that he fell out with David Lange and lost his job over. We still respect Sir Roger for his service to New Zealand, and hope he is enjoying his retirement.”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/e...A6QIENOZI/
"Act Party co-founder Sir Roger Douglas says his former party has “lost the plot” and he will not be voting for it in the coming election because he believes Act only represents the wealthy."
It always has Roger - & even you must be aware of that.
Douglas, a former Labour Finance Minister who founded Act with Derek Quigley in 1993, used a 22-page open letter to hit out at those currently leading the party and state that he will be a “swing voter” for the first time after voting for Act since 2002.
That’s despite his nephew Rob standing for Act in the Tukituki electorate.
He claimed Labour and the Greens promoted policies that made people dependent on the government in order to get their vote, while National “stand for very little” and didn’t introduce “new and exciting policy”, Douglas believed.
But he reserved a stinging criticism for his former party, claiming recent Act articles and policies reinforced a view among New Zealanders that it “represents only the wealthy”, citing his displeasure with Act’s opposition to ending “bracket creep”, which increases tax paid by average wage and salary earners because doing so would require higher taxes on wealthier people."
Ah - so NOT really a sudden attack of conscience after all then, eh. Just concerned lest someone (in the form of govt) takes some of your wealth.
Best just keep voting ACT then eh...
He's complaining about the way in which 'National & Labour have robbed lower income earners"
That is precisely what the greed based Neo Liberalism - which HE helped impose on this country - has been doing since it began.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/live-updates/18...t-the-plot
"Douglas wrote: “Not satisfied with the way National and Labour have robbed lower income earners of $60 per week over the last 13 years via bracket creep, Act wants to go further. They want to keep bracket creep in place and then use the extra billion dollars-plus of taxes per year … to lower the highest income earners’ in New Zealand personal income taxes. Really, this is not the Act party I formed in 1993.”
Seymour, whose party is today polling over 12%, told the Spinoff in response: “Sir Roger is possibly frustrated that Act is not as radical as he wants it to be. Our tax policy today is much less radical than the 23% flat tax that he fell out with David Lange and lost his job over. We still respect Sir Roger for his service to New Zealand, and hope he is enjoying his retirement.”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/e...A6QIENOZI/
"Act Party co-founder Sir Roger Douglas says his former party has “lost the plot” and he will not be voting for it in the coming election because he believes Act only represents the wealthy."
It always has Roger - & even you must be aware of that.
Douglas, a former Labour Finance Minister who founded Act with Derek Quigley in 1993, used a 22-page open letter to hit out at those currently leading the party and state that he will be a “swing voter” for the first time after voting for Act since 2002.
That’s despite his nephew Rob standing for Act in the Tukituki electorate.
He claimed Labour and the Greens promoted policies that made people dependent on the government in order to get their vote, while National “stand for very little” and didn’t introduce “new and exciting policy”, Douglas believed.
But he reserved a stinging criticism for his former party, claiming recent Act articles and policies reinforced a view among New Zealanders that it “represents only the wealthy”, citing his displeasure with Act’s opposition to ending “bracket creep”, which increases tax paid by average wage and salary earners because doing so would require higher taxes on wealthier people."
Ah - so NOT really a sudden attack of conscience after all then, eh. Just concerned lest someone (in the form of govt) takes some of your wealth.
Best just keep voting ACT then eh...
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
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