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0 pointsrobocat2y ago0 comments

> fake numbers

no: - I'm using the numbers in the quote in my comment, and from the link I gave you.

Taxation rules create incentives and disincentives. If you earn a salary you are usually ignorant of those incentives because you don't experience them. From what I see the attitude is "fuck everyone who is better off than me".

Our rules need to encourage people to make NZ better off. Not have the incentive to stop once you have gotten a $20m home: https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/property/residential/lifestyle-p...

Anyone that owns businesses worth $20m is already taxed on income. Giving a big middle finger to people that build businesses is silly.

Disclosure: I am not anywhere near the big salary or wealth numbers we've mentioned.

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quink2y ago

Your argument against a non-existent $150,000 yearly tax is that a single person would need to pay that if they owned a property two thirds the size of the Vatican, on the ocean, 45 minutes from the biggest city centre in a 2000km radius.

No wait, that wasn't the argument here, your argument is that they wouldn't want to accumulate even more wealth.

> Not have the incentive to stop once you have gotten a $20m home

Minor point, that's not a home, that's two homes in the same listing. I'd argue that accumulating property wealth beyond a house seems like it ought to be disincentivized at least a little bit, but evidently you're under the impression that either poor people don't deserve the opportunity or that land is in infinite supply.

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