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Today on The Spinoff: Wellington’s sorted housing – now what about water? Plus CubaDupa and mandatory teaching hours.
“The year is 2049, and the recently elected leader of the Labour Party is calling for ‘a conversation’ about taxes and New Zealand’s failure to tax either wealth or the income it generates. This scenario is, following Chris Hipkins’s re-opening of the tax debate last Sunday, a wearyingly predictable one. We have been here before, had this ‘conversation’ countless times, to no avail. It is the tax obsessive’s equivalent of Groundhog Day.
Here, though, is another, equally plausible scenario: the year is 2019, and the recently elected leader of the Labour Party, having unequivocally campaigned in 2017 on introducing a capital gains tax, is now overseeing the first year’s takings.
This scenario is credible because tax reform in this country is not, despite its many setbacks, a lost cause. Its failures to date have as much to do with internal Labour Party dynamics as with any obstinate reluctance on the part of the public to entertain the idea of change.”
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