State owned broadcaster, Radio NZ, reported in no uncertain terms, with Big Bold Headline, "Survey of 1000 people shows 65% would support Capital Gains Tax". It stated, "A new survey shows the tax tide could be turning. An IPSOS survey of 1003 people this month shows 65 percent of those questioned would support a Capital Gains Tax or CGT". Then in another article it said, 'Sixty-five percent of respondents said they would support a CGT "in some form"'. What a pack of lies.
Worst of all, Radio NZ put in quote marks, "in some form". They scrummaged that line from Ipsos, which used it in its report. But Ipsos never asked people, "Do you Support Capital Taxes in Some Form?". When you put words in quote marks, its ethical code you must be reporting from what was said. But it was not. The words were made up. Even News Talk ZB got into false reporting, interviewing the PM under headlines, "Discussions about introducing a capital gains tax keep cropping up, and over 65% of Kiwis support the idea, according to new polls". False.
Whilst being interviewed by Sean Punklett on The Platform Radio Show, DownToEarth.Kiwi called out Ipsos & Radio NZ. Sean's top investigator, Ben Espiner, now reports, "How you were gaslit by the media and a Polling Company". Ben called Ipsos. They have confessed that 87% oppose capital taxes ("in some form", which never was the wording). Confused? Ipsos asked if people supported capital taxes in a range of situations. Only a tiny minority supported them on one's house, a minority on boats, cars and art, and a minority on businesses. The only majority was on investment properties, at just 57%. But NZ already has capital taxes on investment taxes - the public argument is simply over how long you should be able to own them to come under the tax. So the Ipsos Poll boringly just reflected the status-quo in NZ and supported the National Party's position on capital taxes. But Radio NZ reported the news as being that the "tax tide" was "turning" on capital taxes. There is no suggestion at all of that being the case in the survey.
What is Dirty Politics is that Prime Minister Luxon was assailed by Main Stream Media journalists as being out-of-touch with the people's views on capital taxes, and made him look bad. Luxon said that Kiwis were not keen on such taxes applying to their own home, businesses and Kiwi Saver accounts. What Luxon stated was exactly in line with the findings of the Ipsos Poll - though Big Media told him it was not. Okay, we get it. Radio NZ and One News want Labour to be elected in a few years time on a platform to whack in capital taxes on "the rich", just like their mates in the UK Labour Party, to "rebuild" public services, no doubt which includes, to them, the State Owned Broadcasters. But the whole point of State-owned broadcasters is that, unlike private broadcasters, they should try their best to report objectively and not favor one Party over another. If Radio NZ wont do that, what is the point of it? It should be defunded, privatized and left to fail on its own.
Sources:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018961806/survey-of-1000-people-shows-65-would-support-capital-gains-tax
https://theplatform.kiwi/podcasts/episode/rob-macculloch-on-misleading-reports-on-kiwis-support-for-a-cgt
https://theplatform.kiwi/podcasts/episode/ben-espiner-explains-how-you-were-gaslit-by-media-a-polling-company
Professor Robert MacCulloch holds the Matthew S. Abel Chair of Macroeconomics at Auckland University. He has previously worked at the Reserve Bank, Oxford University, and the London School of Economics. He runs the blog Down to Earth Kiwi from where this article was sourced.
Whilst being interviewed by Sean Punklett on The Platform Radio Show, DownToEarth.Kiwi called out Ipsos & Radio NZ. Sean's top investigator, Ben Espiner, now reports, "How you were gaslit by the media and a Polling Company". Ben called Ipsos. They have confessed that 87% oppose capital taxes ("in some form", which never was the wording). Confused? Ipsos asked if people supported capital taxes in a range of situations. Only a tiny minority supported them on one's house, a minority on boats, cars and art, and a minority on businesses. The only majority was on investment properties, at just 57%. But NZ already has capital taxes on investment taxes - the public argument is simply over how long you should be able to own them to come under the tax. So the Ipsos Poll boringly just reflected the status-quo in NZ and supported the National Party's position on capital taxes. But Radio NZ reported the news as being that the "tax tide" was "turning" on capital taxes. There is no suggestion at all of that being the case in the survey.
What is Dirty Politics is that Prime Minister Luxon was assailed by Main Stream Media journalists as being out-of-touch with the people's views on capital taxes, and made him look bad. Luxon said that Kiwis were not keen on such taxes applying to their own home, businesses and Kiwi Saver accounts. What Luxon stated was exactly in line with the findings of the Ipsos Poll - though Big Media told him it was not. Okay, we get it. Radio NZ and One News want Labour to be elected in a few years time on a platform to whack in capital taxes on "the rich", just like their mates in the UK Labour Party, to "rebuild" public services, no doubt which includes, to them, the State Owned Broadcasters. But the whole point of State-owned broadcasters is that, unlike private broadcasters, they should try their best to report objectively and not favor one Party over another. If Radio NZ wont do that, what is the point of it? It should be defunded, privatized and left to fail on its own.
Sources:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018961806/survey-of-1000-people-shows-65-would-support-capital-gains-tax
https://theplatform.kiwi/podcasts/episode/rob-macculloch-on-misleading-reports-on-kiwis-support-for-a-cgt
https://theplatform.kiwi/podcasts/episode/ben-espiner-explains-how-you-were-gaslit-by-media-a-polling-company
Professor Robert MacCulloch holds the Matthew S. Abel Chair of Macroeconomics at Auckland University. He has previously worked at the Reserve Bank, Oxford University, and the London School of Economics. He runs the blog Down to Earth Kiwi from where this article was sourced.
1 comment:
Has anyone done any research into what sort of money the government would even make (take) from a CGT? Is there published numbers that can be analysed?
Is it just a case of making some guess work and promoting it as fact?
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