I am aware of many countries that have appallingly inefficient GST systems where they exempt various articles, where they have differential rates, and where one has to differentiate between food taken away from a place and food consumed within a place. Thank goodness we have not followed those very bad policies. I am certainly aware in New Zealand of GST being levied on top of other taxes. Every time the member fills up his petrol tank he is doing precisely that.
Why, it was none other that the Hon Dr Michael Cullen, answering a supplementary question from Gordon Copeland on 4 August 2004.
That causes us to pose a question to Phil Goff and David Cunliffe; if the implementation of differential rates of GST was considered by Dr Cullen to be "very bad policies" in 2004, whatever has changed?
3 comments:
ummmm.... perhaps times have changed?
No, that's too simple...
No no, actually I think that's it exactly...
wake the fuck up!
G-sus.
The troll's onto it Inv. Times have changed - Labour are now desperate and flailing around for anything to get some traction...the time for logically thought out policy is long gone.
Quite so James; times have changed from when Labour at least had a consistent policy direction, even though it was one with which I disagreed. Clark and Cullen would never have proposed something as daft as this.
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