Not PC

I did know that the Greens are economically illiterate. I hadn't realised just how innumerate until I saw the so-called Taxpayers...

T he Blue Team is crowing again about a budget surplus. In three years time. They seem to have forgotten their promise three years ago was t...

" T he moral argument against a wealth tax is simple: Your wealth is not a public resource simply because other people are envious of i...

I was struck  this morning when reading Home Paddock's ' Quotes of the Week '  just how pathetic our local conservatives are. H...

“ T e Pāti Māori has spent most of the year seemingly allergic to policy, and after all that time this is what they have come up with: five ...

" T hose who claim our tax system is unfair and fosters inequality typically quote Scandinavian countries as operating superior tax sys...

  "[ W ]ho actually carries their share of New Zealand’s tax burden. [Let's see] how unfair and disproportionate New Zealand’s tax...

" T he wealth of nations is the work of the people, not of their governments. If they had no other maker of their wealth than their gov...

"[ T he Land Tax] suffers from a much more fundamental flaw. Namely: A tax on the unimproved value of land distorts the incentive to se...

"[ T here's a] difference between wealth and consumption . The poor wish consumption. Turning capital into consumption must destro...

Price controls never control prices in the way the controllers wish.  Instead, they 'control' quantities demanded, either increasing...

  " K eep your eye on one thing and one thing only: how much government is spending, because that’s the true tax.     “If you’re not pa...

UPDATE: Professor Robert MacCulloch : "It's a rigged budget ... so she can get a soundbite. ... Media got suckered." The prom...

 ... so to help journalists desperate for something to write about before the Budget comes down, here are some quotable quotes. Send a copy ...

" C apital gains tax represents one of the most egregious examples of double taxation in the federal code, yet politicians treat it as ...

" T axes are the price you pay to fund the things that you protest against." ~ Spike Cohen

A bove a certain size, building new homes in France requires a registered architect. Take a wild guess: what size do you reckon that is ......

  " T he Greens are proposing one of the most aggressive tax regimes of its kind anywhere in the developed world, resulting in a broad-...

S ome fascinating research by Tim Hughes and his team at Treasury reveals that "25-30% of people born in New Zealand are living elsewh...

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