My phone rang twice early in the morning a week back. “Have you read the morning paper yet?” the callers asked. “He’s at it again.”
They were referring to Dunedin’s perennial attention-seeker, Sir Ian Taylor, who has come up with a new self-publicity ploy.
He opened the batting with a full-page newspaper photo, surprise, surprise, of himself and followed this up with half-page photos in further editions, again of himself.
These are promoting a scheme he’s devised which he’s called “Share my super”. He’s soliciting superannuants to share some of their government super to give to what he describes as our “forgotten moko”.
Taylor is a rich-lister, deservedly I hasten to add. Following the usual struggles, he created a successful business. We know that as he has told us all about it in great detail in previous self-publicity efforts.
But here’s a question for Ian to ponder.
Why, given his wealth, is he even taking the government super? I’ve been eligible for nigh on a quarter century and like every other affluent friend I know, I wouldn’t dream of claiming it as I (and they) don’t need it.
This article was first published by No Punches Pulled.
