Jim Anderton has found a way to let any Labour-Alliance government get around Dr Cullen’s tax pledges: wealth taxes. In other words, taxes on getting ahead.

Labour-Alliance are promising the world. The taxometre is heading of the scale! More for pensioners, more for students, more for unions, more for beneficiaries, and buying back ACC!

How much do you own? Labour-Alliance wants to know.

Asset taxes, or capital gains taxes will penalise middle New Zealand families who have saved and put money aside. If you’ve bought your own home, a new car or some shares then Dr Cullen and Mr Anderton want to know. And they’ll have their cut, thank you.

This latest bumble by Jim Anderton shows Dr Cullen’s pledges to be worthless. Dr Cullen tells business audiences nothing will change. Mr Anderton and the rest of Labour-Alliance tell social audiences everything will change.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>