Labour spent a great deal of our money running around in a bright red bus telling us all how they were going to “Axe the Tax”.
Today Phil Goff was supposed to deliver Labour’s vision for the future in a key note speech. Since they spent thousands of our tax dollars pushing their own policy you would have thought that axing the tax would have featured heavily. I have read his speech so you don’t have to. I fell asleep twice and it took me ages to actually work out what he said.
The increase in GST will raise around two billion dollars.
There are fairer ways than National’s to transfer that back to the taxpayer.
Instead of using the extra revenue from increasing GST to cut the top tax rate, we could give bigger tax cuts to middle and low income earners. That’s what I am committed to do.
Riiight, Phil Goff has just said he is “committed to” using the extra revenue from increasing GST to give bigger tax cuts to middle and low income earners. Apart from the fact that thanks to WFF these people are largely net tax takers rather than payers he has now committed Labour to retaining the GST increase, or has he? Can we have the money back for the tour now please?
Labour hasn’t yet ruled out reversing the GST increase.
Oh dear! Not even three sentences apart and he is contradicting his “commitment”. Then he tells a little porkie.
I have always supported a low rate GST without exemptions.
I suppose it is true, a little bit. He of course sat in the Labour cabinet that raised GST from 10% to 12.5%. What’s a little obfuscation between voters?
Phil then let’s loose a string of utter falsehoods, half-truths and lies by ommission.
National got elected by calling for tax cuts we couldn’t afford.
But having called for tax cuts in Opposition, their record in government will tell a different story:
An increase in Goods and Services Tax.
An increase in property tax, feeding into higher rents.
A tax on innovation, through the axing of the R&D tax credit.
They’ve increased ACC tax.
Last week they increased tobacco tax.
Now they’re putting a new tax on student loans.
And Aucklanders are facing higher rates taxes to pay for the Super City.
Line by line they are: Sort of true, true, not yet, lie, lie, you broke it – now they have to fix it, you voted for it, bullshit, it was Helen’s grand idea to control Auckland.
Phil is so crooked he can’t lie straight anymore. Then he delivers the Big Envy Lie to top all that off.
All this to pay for tax cuts at the top.
Fuck off Phil, you aren’t credible after that raft of falsehood.
One sentence later he is still lying like a flatfish.
ational says cutting the top tax rate will help to keep people in New Zealand instead of emigrating.
But the reason talented New Zealanders are emigrating to Australia is not tax.
Australia’s top tax rate is 45 cents in the dollar – much higher than New Zealand’s.
He lies on immigration statistics and doesn’t seem to connect his statement about Australia’s top tax rate with his statement about 4 paragraphs before about raising tax thresholds. Goff and Labour are talking about raising the top rate threshold in new Zealand to $70,000. Remember that Clark when elected in 1999 promised that no more than 5% of taxpayers would pay the highest tax rate when they reefed it up out of spite. In Australia, where Goff seems keen on their GST rate and not keen on their high income tax rate the thresholds are massively in favour of the taxpayer than anything he did or has suggested. The top rate he thinks we should aspire to only kicks in once our income gets over $180,000. Even at labour’s holy $70,000 promised threshold in Australia your rate would be 30%.
Phil Goff is a ninny. I don’t think he is evil, just thick. He mouths platitudes, one liners and bullshit all through the worst SEG ever seen. He is actually insincere lookng the way he nods and bounces around. Give it up Phil, let Cunners take over.
Goff has been desperate for relevance. With today’s speech he has proved his complete irrelevance.
