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# Who’s afraid of the big bad tax
- URL: https://goodoil.news/whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-tax/
- Published: 2019-04-21T20:30:33.000Z
- Updated: 2019-04-21T04:48:19.000Z
- Author: WH
- Tags: #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 04:14

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Was it Peters or was it Ardern that killed the big bad CGT? We may never know the truth. Peters claimed a win, Bridges claimed a win, Shaw claimed a fail and HDPA suggests that it was Labour that killed the golden goose.

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> Let’s stop with this nonsense of blaming New Zealand First for killing off the capital gains tax.  
>  
> **NZ First didn’t kill it off. Labour did.**

> Labour killed it off the moment they stopped fighting for it. And that was pretty much the moment Labour got into Government.

> Labour gave up on this policy long ago. **They euthanised it through neglect.**  
>  
> If they really wanted to introduce a capital gains tax, they would’ve fought for it.

> Why didn’t Jacinda Ardern try to convince the public about this tax? Apart from one short statement in a post-Cabinet press conference last month, I can’t recall any passionate defence of the CGT from her. **Ardern was AWOL in the debate.** She loves a good Facebook Live. Where was the eight-minute Facebook Live explaining why it was her answer to New Zealand’s inequality?  
>  
> Ardern is one of the most gifted communicators of her generation. She could’ve sold the CGT to New Zealand. Or at least tried. \[…\]

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Really, Heather? Really? Have you actually listened to an interview when Ardern did not have a script? Unless ‘her generation’ is comprised of two people, one of whom is mute, I suspect a touch of hyperbole there.

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> Then look at what happened the day after Ardern killed off the tax. **She didn’t front up for early morning radio and TV interviews.** She left the mop-up job to Finance Minister Grant Robertson and Revenue Minister Stuart Nash. Her office says she was leaving the more detailed questions about next steps to them. I think she clearly wasn’t prepared to take any more heat on it. She mic-dropped and walked away.

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Perhaps the reason Ardern ran and hid was that she **cannot grasp difficult concepts** like CGT, GDP and government accounts. She had once heard the phrase ‘capital gains tax’ and got all excited as it had comrade socialists favourite word in it. Tax.

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> Labour voters have a right to feel cross at this backdown. They voted for a party that swore by a CGT. **For three terms Labour said a CGT was crucial.** And then, when the party got the chance, they lost their nerve. **Labour has sold out their own voters.** \[…\]  
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> **And so much for being a transformational government.** Ardern and Robertson can call themselves transformational all they like but **at the first opportunity to really transform the country they ran a mile.**

> What’s transformational about this Government? Child poverty is worse. Homeless numbers have increased.  
>  

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Careful, Heather. We cannot have the lefty media sowing discord about our Dear Leader. Couldn’t you roll out a magazine cover or baby picture?

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> They say they’ve delivered but they haven’t really delivered much. Sure they’ve handed out free university education and the winter energy payment, I’ll give them that. Middle-class white kids send their thanks, as do all the retired couples in Remuera and Khandallah who enjoy the help paying their electricity bills.  
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> Let’s see this for what it is. It’s a retreat from a policy that Labour must’ve known would make it harder to win the 2020 election. This is a cynical political decision.  
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> You know how you know that? Because Jacinda Ardern didn’t just rule out a CGT this term while NZ First is still there to oppose it. She ruled it out for the rest of her leadership. If she really believed in a CGT, and really wanted to do it, she would have left that door open to try again once NZ First are out of the picture. **She’d have done that if she really wanted a CGT**. \[…\]

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