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And here was me thinking it was tax credits.

by Whaleoil on April 30, 2007

At last the government has recognised that Working fo Families is nothing more than welfare dressed up and sold as "tax credits".

They are busily slagging off National for their proposal to unwind Working for Families and replace it with Tax cuts.

Helen Clark has finally also acknowledged that Tax Cuts are badly needed.

[quote]"I think that's terrible for families, because as we know Working for Families extends to about 70 per cent of families with children. That tax cut for them is very badly needed."[/quote]

So the government can't even get its own story straight. Firstly they pitched Working for Families as Tax Credits, now it is welfare. Tax cuts are evil and the proponents of them should be "quietly drowned", now Clark says a tax cut os "badly needed".

They are indeed clutching at straws as the Key juggernaut marches on over the remnants of Labour.

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    IMO, I don't think the government wouldn't need so much G.S.T/Tax/ Whatever if it hadn't (BTW that was National) sold off profitable companies, two examples are NZR which by the time National slogged it off was making a nice little profit, now its been ruined by american investors (not that I have anything against americans or their money) and needs heaps of Government captial to repair it (But still not as much as the non profitable Transit NZ) and Telecom which now serves NZ with really slow intenet, over charged landlines and stupid cellphone services. I don't see any reason why the government can't make money off owning companies to our nation welfare ( such as the National grid) while making a profit and then being able to offer tax cuts because they have that source of income. Am I missing something important?

     

    But I do have to say one other thing! Health services before Tax cuts! 

  • Leonidas

    It is with great joy I tell Cullen  to stick his WFF up his slimey arse, we did need the little bit extra to make ends meet, but only because we're all taxed too much to start with, but no more!. the missus is off to work next week, so thanks for the 'hand up', but Mike,you can shove your 'hand out'! Oh, and while we're at it, lets have some of that transparancy Liarbour is always on about… I would very much like to know exactly where every cent of the 800k came from.