Not at all, NBT. CGT wouldn't worry me, it's only a small proportion of a business sale profit anyway. Putting aside the numerous retail and service private sector businesses for the meantime, which need a really healthy economy to prosper, and you are left with manufacturers, exporters and the primary sector. Surely the goal for these business owners should be to bring through new products and services that are capable of earning a good margin and overseas exchange in at least some overseas markets, using NZ labour and expertise.
If you look at manufacturers in NZ, they have been gutted over the last few years since the GFC, 42,000 jobs gone, mostly from quite small businesses. But they can add up, and some grow to be large operations. Manufacturers are in one of the sectors that can employ across the spectrum, they can be sited close to worker populations, they usually have minimal impact on the environment. They also support a lot of other small and large businesses, and contractors. When Labour and the Greens spearheaded a look into manufacturing last term, National didn't even bother showing up.
Here's a CV list of the people looking at Labour's last election campaign. Impressive lineup.
http://campaign.labour.org.nz/review...ource=nzlabour