jetpack domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /mnt/stor08-wc1-ord1/694335/916773/www.tvhe.co.nz/web/content/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131updraftplus domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /mnt/stor08-wc1-ord1/694335/916773/www.tvhe.co.nz/web/content/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131avia_framework domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /mnt/stor08-wc1-ord1/694335/916773/www.tvhe.co.nz/web/content/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131Thats the problem you will always have with, Nome. Tax on one part of the population cannot be reduced ever, because if you do, orphans will die.
]]>But what happens if that is not the trade-off. I don’t think that many people in that top 22% go out and buy BMW’s (in fact given tax avoidance and the prevalence of trusts I think that there will be more BMW’s in the other category). Furthermore we aren’t talking about cutting services in this example at all – so talking about health and education is a straw-man.
“I don’t see the rationality in that assumption. Low skilled workers usually face downward wage pressure from competition with the unemployed, and so are paid at, or close to the minimum wage.”
Indeed, I was hoping someone would raise that point – because it is completely true. If there is a ceiling on prices, then as long as the ceiling is higher than the tax + the reservation wage the whole incidence will fall on the employee.
However, in the current environment is there sufficient “competition from the unemployed”? If there is, then there is two things to remember:
1) Trained staff are still worth more than fresh staff – people generally don’t stay on the minimum wage for long or they move (just look at the turnover at clothing stores!).
2) The unemployment benefit also provides a reservation level – as a result, the higher the benefit, the more likely it is that some of the incidence will fall on employers.
]]>Yeah, I’d say that roughly 78% think the current distribution is fair 🙂
]]>I don’t see the rationality in that assumption. Low skilled workers usually face downward wage pressure from competition with the unemployed, and so are paid at, or close to the minimum wage.
]]>Fuck yes it is. Unless you beleive the ability of someone to buy a new BMW everery year is more important than giving children from poor households freedom from avoidable illness, and proper eductional opportunities.
Fortunately most New Zealanders don’t think this way.
]]>Agreed – I didn’t feel that I needed to bring that up to make my point initially though 🙂
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