Peter Dunne is once again rolling out his big policy plank - income-splitting for couples with children for tax purposes.
And he said it was time to give something back to middle- and higher-income earners who might be earning too much to qualify for other financial support programmes such as Working for Families.
Why stop there? Isn't it time to give something back to middle and high income earners who don't have children?
If income-splitting would be fairer than the current system, a flat tax would be fairer again. My family would benefit from Dunne's policy but it's still unfair and doesn't provide the economic stimulus the country needs.
Advocating income-splitting is just more of the messy piecemeal approach to taxation.
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Yes. I'm absolutely fed up with this fixation politicians have on paying people to have children: don't they see how that is creating 'the problem'.
As a long suffering taxpayer, with no children who is yet forced to finance everybody else's decision to have children (even though I have no say in that decision, despite many of them will be unfit parents), please, give me a freaking break!
And do not pay people to have children. It's the cruelest piece of policy the Socialists in NZ have yet devised.
I've had a gutful of all parties in Parliament, and I'm sick of my over regulated, over taxed, life in NZ.
Mark Hubbard
As a white, working middle-aged couple without children, I have to wonder if we're invisible to the socialists in Wellington.
It's hard enough to make ends meet, without having to subsidise every family, solo parent, sickness beneficiary, unemployed person, Treaty claim,"cultural awareness" seminar,cultural group, artist and all-round bludger.
I'm damn sick of it.
And a National government is unlikey to prove any better.
Welfare is as much part of the NZ scenery as the Southern Alps.
Will we ever see the back of this self-serving political whore?
One of the disadvantages of MMP is the perpetuation of parasites like Dunne and Peters.
If only the voters of Ohariu-Belmont could give their arrogant MP the boot. If only!
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