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Editorial

Wealth tax call a high-risk strategy

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Chris Hipkins showed once again how focused he is on trying to stay in government when he followed the lead of Sir John Key and Dame Jacinda Ardern in ruling out a policy, that he knows has merit, any time under his leadership.

In this case it is wealth and capital gains taxes (the latter also being one of Ardern’s  “not on my watch” calls) that are off the table — and as in previous...

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Peter Jones
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16 July 2023
It will not address social inequity. It will kill the goose and cause mass poverty on a scale that we have only ever seen in other countries where these things have been tried before causing death and destruction to millions of people.

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