NACT looks after their very wealthy mates and they are good at it. English and Key who are multi-multi-millionaires have many of them.

And how do they do this? F.x. 15% of the tax cuts went to 1% of income earners, and curiously they are the 1% who can already afford many of the luxuries in life.

As for those on $38-60K that you are leaping to protect: these are the same people who get cake crumbs from the Budget this year. Probably less once you take the inflationary effects of the Budget into account. And this is not highway robbery now?

Perhaps you should acknowledge what it obvious to everyone already – your natural leanings and jump right after all.

Labour took taxes and left NZ in a better fiscal position. NACT are now letting that slide backwards in order to give tax cuts targetted at the wealthiest in this country, regardless of the social damage their cutbacks and engineered inequality create.

Lesson: The tories never change. Labour must.

The problem is we had 9 years of a government that talked only about assisting those on low incomes & completely ignored those on MIDDLE – that’s right MIDDLE to high incomes.

Labour crucified those on $38-60k for 8 of their 9 years in office – 33c in the dollar was robbery pure and simple. That is not a rich man’s wage yet somehow they thought it was okay to take away a 1/3 of their income. Grossly unfair & unjust.

Now that the rhetoric has changed – despite the percentages in terms of increased ‘wealth’ being the same – has changed, you all think that NACT is just looking after their “rich mates”….never mind the fact that it was Labour that made these people very very VERY rich at the expense of ALL of us. Hmmmmm. But that doesn’t sit that well does it as every time someone brings that up I hear oh, it’s not about the past, it’s about the future….despite that horrid past only being 18 months ago!

Perhaps I will have to jump the fence and go right after-all – you are all convincing me & my ‘rich friends’ who pay a fortune in tax, mortgages, ACC levies, road users, groceries, petrol, health care that the left is just an ideological dream that has no concept of reality.

If you need to have your children in care because you are at work or are studying, the home based options would suffice – they are wonderful environments and are often a lot cheaper.

Chris 73 – I will take that as a compliment!

However, I prefer to live with integrity, honesty & a strong moral compass so parliament is not an option and I would doubt a blog from a fence sitter would be all that popular!

- The First Post – We could have been as rich as Norway
- The Spectator – Why hasn’t Britain got a sovereign wealth fund?

And neither publication is particularly leftist either.

I can’t send a personal email to Rebecca but I’d just like to say she should either:

a. run for parliament herself or
b. start her own blog

she owns everyone on here

Looks like it doesn’t take much to impress these days.

*Smiles and waves*