Gareth Morgan is worried about the housing bubble still. Quite
apart from the fact that house market prices in every area we
live – South Canterbury, Canterbury, and Marlborough - are lower than building replacement cost, owing in some large part to the regulatory environment, and meaning the bubble is the permanent and continual growth of government, Gareth is now
manically wishing to rush us down the
road to serfdom at pace. No longer, according to Gareth, is a mere capital
gains tax enough, but:
… the tax policies the Labour and the Greens propose – capital gains tax with exemptions for owner-occupied housing – are too timid to be our ticket out of this mess. Not a capital gains tax but a wealth tax which includes owner-occupied housing and is integrated with income tax would do a far better job of meeting those tenets of good tax policy.
Thing
is, Gareth, a communist’s good tax policy is a free man’s gulag. And as for a
tax on owner-occupied housing, my single tweet sums up what I think:
@garethmorgannz Owner-occupied housing tax means end of freehold. All renters, govt our landlord. 1st time I've sworn on Twitter: Fuck you.
— Mark Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) July 8, 2013
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tax on owner-occupied housing is a rental paid to government. We all become renters, the government our
landlord, freehold would truly have no meaning anymore. This is the land of
renters drawn from the poverty of a rich man’s mind. And no doubt it will be
accepted, ultimately, due to a sickness of philosophy in the West that has been
fatal, with more of the surveillance police state needed to operate it. Stick
to killing cats, Gareth, and please get out of my home, because your latest
policy is a home invasion.
John Key is NZ's richest communist.
ReplyDeleteEvery bit of Hellen's "communism by stealth" has been kept by Key - and then he adds more of his own devising - rail loop & school lunches.
disguisting.
Seasteading is likely our only future option for Freedom, while it would be nice for NZ to change course, I highly doubt it will.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.seasteading.org/
Seasteading is interesting: but this is the West, what we are looking for in seasteading, should've been our birthright.
DeletePS we already have "tax on land". Called rates. But let's face it - NZ doesn't have "freehold". We have fee-simple - aka grants of fiefs ultimately under the Crown. Ever since 1066.
ReplyDeleteI realise that about rates, and don't disagree at all, but what Morgan is wanting here, is a huge increase in scale, again.
DeleteBut yeah, there's no such thing as freehold anymore, for quite some while.
Perhaps we could all chip in, and purchase Cypriot citizenship for Gareth in the hope that he would be attracted to the climate, their banking system, and the banditry of their Government.
ReplyDeleteWhat's the cat population like there?
DeleteI propose a tax on idiots
ReplyDeleteOr better a voluntary tax to fund only those functions of state that protect an individual's property rights and physical safety.
DeleteHe's not selfish! That's his bloody problem - needs to go to the local Rand Temple.
ReplyDeleteOh. Ha ha ha ha ha a joker! Jeez you're good. Seriously, you should be looking up comedy for a career (luckily you'll have the welfare state to fall back on).
DeleteUm, hang on: did I mention Ayn?