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BaconWrappedEnigma

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  • NZ Politics @lemmy.nz

    The Green Party’s tax plan

    Some interesting "Wealth Tax" ideas in there and proposed changes that would net an extra ~$5B (estimated).

    • Big corporations tax: The corporate tax rate will be increased from 28 percent to 33 percent for big companies with annual turnover exceeding $30 million. This will impact about 0.7 percent of businesses (e.g. banks, supermarkets and energy companies).

    And new income tax rates:

    Current

    Income bandTax rate
    0 - $15,60010.5%
    $15,601 - $53,50017.5%
    $53,501 - $78,10030%
    $78,101 - $180,00033%
    $180,001 and over39%

    Proposed

    Income bandProposed rate
    $0–$9,9990%
    $10,000–$19,99910%
    $20,000–$39,99917.5%
    $40,000–$59,99925.5%
    $60,000–$79,99930.5%
    $80,000–$159,99933.5%
    $160,000+45%
    --
  • Hope is what we have; and emailing your MP. ☺️

  • Willem Dafoe?

  • 1800s is a bit vague: Progress and Poverty was late 1800s, like 1890. Georgism was probably the least bad tax until AI happened. Now a well architected wealth tax is probably the thing that will endure.

  • Your thing is confusing until you get to:

    we need to look at buying a house as locking in your cost of living, rather than an investment that only ever goes up.

  • We should not tax productive things; like income and GST. We should tax unproductive things, like sitting on property extracting rent. The entire system is bass-akwards for facilitating a real economy. "Old people get all the young people's value" is great until it breaks and everyone leaves. Then we're left with a bunch of "rich" old people and no young talent.

    There needs to be a serious shake up. This might be why TOP is polling above 5% now...

  • I sure am glad they didn't build apartments in my neighbourhood. It would have destroyed the aesthetics really.

  • Glad you enjoy it. I didn't know he had a book. I'll check it out.

  • NZ Politics @lemmy.nz

    Garys Economics: “It's the same fight” | Chlöe Swarbrick & Gary Stevenson full podcast

  • NZ Politics @lemmy.nz

    Govt to Criminalise Rough Sleeping

    Failure to follow the order is subject to a $2,000 fine or up to 3 months in jail.

    The behaviours mentioned in the video (that are not in the draft explanatory note pdf):

    • Behavior indicating an intent to inhabit a public place
    • Rough sleeping
    • All forms of begging
    • Breaching the peace
    • Obstructing or impeding someone from entering a business
    • Disorderly, disruptive, threatening, or intimidating behavior

    Hon Mark Mitchel (Minister of Police) chimes in at 10:23 to acknowledge that the people subject to the order are vulnerable people.

    At 17:54 a reporter asks about descretionary enforcement and Mitchel confirms the planned use of selective enforcement which increases the risk of targ

  • NZ Politics @lemmy.nz

    Govt rolls back Auckland housing intensification rules, Chris Bishop announces | RNZ

  • NZ Politics @lemmy.nz

    NZ Treasury: "The likely effect would therefore be to increase house prices"

    I stumbled across a 2020 OIA request to NZ Treasury where someone asked:

    what analysis Treasury has done on the KiwiSaver First Home scheme affecting house prices, and how much taxpayer money gets transferred into the housing stock

    Treasury released a few internal docs and they basically say that increasing caps would lead to higher house prices and that subsidies for renters/buyers tend to be captured by landlords/sellers instead of improving affordability long-term.

    The advice was apparently ignored.

  • NZ Politics @lemmy.nz

    Age Verification (ID) for Adult Websites Greenlit by Judith Collins

    The advice from the AG, Judith Collins, on the new Age Verification Bill gives it a big thumbs up and includes a scenario where it would be OK to restrict access to adult websites, even though the bill is targeted at social media, and none of the debate has mentioned adult websites.

    Get ready to upload your ID to sketchy adult websites?

  • NZ Politics @lemmy.nz

    Government unveils major overhaul of New Zealand’s planning system

    Loads of info on environment.govt.nz

    About the planning system

    The Government has announced it will replace the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) with a planning system designed to make it easier to build houses and infrastructure, let farmers and growers get on with doing what they do best, and boost New Zealand’s primary sector, while protecting the environment.

    The new planning system is based on a blueprint developed by the Expert Advisory Group on Resource Management Reform.

    Read the EAG’s blueprint report.

    A major change is the shift to two separate bills that separate land-use planning and natural resource management

    Read more about the resource management reforms.

    The two new Bills

    The Plann