We seriously need the wealthy to pay their fair share in tax. We lose at least $9 billion every year from tax evasion, which is so sorely needed to solve many crises we face.
Our Health Ministry alone isn't coming anywhere near to achieving free healthcare, with many of us being asked by the doctor if we have private health insurance. It's no wonder when you realise the exorbitant costs of specialist doctors and nurses, multi hundred-thousand dollar machines and many thousands spent on drugs made overseas.
That's just health. Fifty per cent of carbon emissions come from the most wealthy 10 per cent, causing the world to become uninhabitable in 100 years from now. Inequality threatens to turn us into a Brazil or India, with the mega rich in castles and the mega poor in slums. The $9 billion dollars-plus that we purge every year will go a very long way to solving all this and more.
Josh Cole, Poike.
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Charitable trusts
Posted on 30-07-2021 07:17 | By crazyhorse
And will we be looking at Charitable trusts that big businesses use as a shield to protect their millions, big businesses that pays tax of course do all they can to minimise it but those that run as charitable trusts like big iwi corporations give little if only GST, and these are the people who say they want to lift their people from poverty. This gov't goes after tradies making a it of cash on the side but has not checks, ballances or targets for the millions of dollars they spray round under the guise of kindness, look at the money for the mongrel mob and a Maori health authority that they have admitted they have no idea of the cost and we have the 'our' health system barely coping, something must change, a bit of self-responsibility?, no of course not it's not the Labour way, Cindy knowsbest!
@ writer Josh.........
Posted on 05-08-2021 19:04 | By groutby
........Josh, there will never be enough money raised or 'recovered' to solve 'many crises we face'..everything is urgent and a crisis, it's the leftist way to promote the required agenda. I would say with someone of your opinion you wouldn't see it that way. I do. I agree our Healthcare is a monolith with needs beyond what a small country can provide by way of finance, and I am sure the 'exorbitant costs of specialist doctors and nurses' would pale into insignificance compared to many healthcare costs...but try running a hospital without them! No, I doubt if the world will become uninhabitable in 100 years time, that is, unless certain people have ever intention of making it so....people with world views such as yours perhaps?...throwing money at 'crises' will not solve them, genuine and quality governance may well help.
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