The Alliance party, by its tax policy, has clearly indicated it intends exporting every young New Zealander of talent and ability, says ACT Leader Richard Prebble.

"Why should a hard working Kiwi hang round in New Zealand just to have the Alliance confiscate nearly half their income?

"The Alliance's tax policy does nothing to grow the economy - in stark contrast to ACT's tax policy, which has now been found by two major independent studies to increase jobs and growth.*

"Instead, the Alliance policy is purely focused on taking money away from those who have earned it and making sure they can't do anything productive with it.

"The special 'executive surcharge' is the most obvious politics of jealousy.

"The outrageous nature of the Alliance tax policy only brings more sharply into focus why National's cautious tax policy isn't enough and why ACT's tax solution is winning the support of productive, hard-working New Zealanders."

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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>>