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Hot Topic Hawke’s Bay
Hot Topic Hawke’s Bay
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Tax – the love that destroys

Hidesight: Tax might be tolerable, though not justifiable, if it made society “better off” but it demonstrably does not.

Thu, 21 Sep 2017

The campaign claim taking the biscuit this election has been economist Shamubeel Eaqub’s “tax is love.” His line wasn’t a throwaway following a hard day door knocking but a considered statement in a published opinion piece: “At its core, tax is about pooling our resources and redistributing, so

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