You would hope, given there is literally no pressure on him right now and he basically gets to spend his days bagging the Government, he might want to sharpen up, given next year is a whole different kettle of fish.
Mistake number 1: He attempted to gain points on Palestine by suggesting David Seymour was holding the Government to some sort of ransom and if it wasn’t for the veto they would have declared support for statehood by now.
What Seymour said was Hamas would need to be demilitarised.
Now, apart from the fact that’s not radical, new, or an already widely held view by many who want to recognise Palestine – what is it Hipkins is saying?
He doesn’t mind Hamas or Hamas being a terror group? Would he be happy with the two state solution, with Hamas at the control panel? If he does, no problem, just say so.
Mistake number 2: For reasons best known to himself he got trapped in a discussion about his tax policy. What tax policy, you ask? Exactly.
But he somehow managed to suggest that even though there isn't a tax policy, what there is, is broad agreement around a wealth tax and a capital gains tax.
And then the bullet in the foot – he couldn’t rule in, or out, the possibility that the family home was part of that tax capture.
Tip number 1: Drop the Middle East. No vote is moved in this country on a place that has been a disaster zone for decades and the more you look like you tolerate terrorists the more you put middle New Zealand off you.
Tip number 2: If you are stupid enough to even hint that a family home could be part of a new tax, give up right now because you are toast.
As history shows, a CGT with the family home exempt has been trialled and rejected multiple times by his own party. The irony of ironies being it was Hipkins himself with a captain's call that dropped it last time.
So not only is he clearly not committed or convinced, he seemingly may have been hijacked by some left-leaning radicals inside his own camp to get the family home involved.
So, a party that can tolerate Hamas and tax your family home.
What could possibly go wrong?
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
What Seymour said was Hamas would need to be demilitarised.
Now, apart from the fact that’s not radical, new, or an already widely held view by many who want to recognise Palestine – what is it Hipkins is saying?
He doesn’t mind Hamas or Hamas being a terror group? Would he be happy with the two state solution, with Hamas at the control panel? If he does, no problem, just say so.
Mistake number 2: For reasons best known to himself he got trapped in a discussion about his tax policy. What tax policy, you ask? Exactly.
But he somehow managed to suggest that even though there isn't a tax policy, what there is, is broad agreement around a wealth tax and a capital gains tax.
And then the bullet in the foot – he couldn’t rule in, or out, the possibility that the family home was part of that tax capture.
Tip number 1: Drop the Middle East. No vote is moved in this country on a place that has been a disaster zone for decades and the more you look like you tolerate terrorists the more you put middle New Zealand off you.
Tip number 2: If you are stupid enough to even hint that a family home could be part of a new tax, give up right now because you are toast.
As history shows, a CGT with the family home exempt has been trialled and rejected multiple times by his own party. The irony of ironies being it was Hipkins himself with a captain's call that dropped it last time.
So not only is he clearly not committed or convinced, he seemingly may have been hijacked by some left-leaning radicals inside his own camp to get the family home involved.
So, a party that can tolerate Hamas and tax your family home.
What could possibly go wrong?
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
3 comments:
Mike your hluse won't just be taxed. It will decared as being on maori land and therefore if you decide to sell it and leave the country, you will have to first ask iwi members if they would like to buy it at cost before you can put it on the open market. This first right of refusal policy is written clearly for everyone to see on tepati's website and also the Green-hamas party have a similar private land back policy. Hipkins as we all know will do anything to get into power. Yet from media like zb, absolute crickets.
All too true Mike, but within my own family, the continuing TV coverage of starving people is just too much for some and rather than blame Hamas, they justify their position by saying Israel is at fault. Presumably their thinking is that if Israel stopped bombing Gaza, all would settle down.
Never in a million years! While Hamas espouse death to all Jews, Israel cannot relax.
So what happens if you buy a house and it decreases in value? Do we get a tax refund?
Capital Gains Tax and wealth tax all sound good but administration and collection of these taxes will be very problematic.
Labour will lose if they push these taxes again and they know it. The reality is they don’t want to win.
Fixing the economy is going to take years. Who wants to be in power and put up with the negative feedback, not the left that’s for sure.
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