Labour govt 2020-23

[Bjauck]

Will inheritance taxes/estate duties be levied once again? Most OECD nations have one in some form…or other capital taxes. Maybe Labour will contemplate either an inheritance tax or CGT. As many wealthy families have their assets in family trusts, I wonder how any inheritance tax would account for them.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opi...nheritance-tax

[fungus pudding]

Will inheritance taxes/estate duties be levied once again? Most OECD nations have one in some form…or other capital taxes. Maybe Labour will contemplate either an inheritance tax or CGT. As many wealthy families have their assets in family trusts, I wonder how any inheritance tax would account for them.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opi...nheritance-tax

Nothing like death duties and gift duties to get the creative part of the brain into overdrive.

[iceman]

Another police officer brutally attacked today. This is becoming a common occurrence and the PM & other Ministers stay quiet. And what about their MP that was the President of the police officer’s union before he became a MP ? Why is that gutless person not speaking up for his former colleagues? This is the result of the Government’s soft approach to crime & gangs. Not only are they stuffing the country economically long term, now it’s becoming lawless as well with our police officers attacked on nearly daily basis without the equipment to defend themselves. Wake up Jacinda

[Bjauck]

Another police officer brutally attacked today. This is becoming a common occurrence and the PM & other Ministers stay quiet. And what about their MP that was the President of the police officer’s union before he became a MP ? Why is that gutless person not speaking up for his former colleagues? This is the result of the Government’s soft approach to crime & gangs. Not only are they stuffing the country economically long term, now it’s becoming lawless as well with our police officers attacked on nearly daily basis without the equipment to defend themselves. Wake up Jacinda

it is becoming one of the leading issues. The number of gang members is estimated to have increased by 50% since Ardern became PM. We also need to address the underlying causes behind the appeal of criminal gangs to increasing numbers of young people.

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA21...ew-zealand.htm

[Bjauck]

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[BlackPeter]

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[BlackPeter]

it is becoming one of the leading issues. The number of gang members is estimated to have increased by 50% since Ardern became PM. We also need to address the underlying causes behind the appeal of criminal gangs to increasing numbers of young people.

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA21...ew-zealand.htm

Clearly - more gang members in the community is not good. Wondering however, how many of them have been recruited due to Labours policies and how many due to the Australian policies to send their criminals to NZ (putting the trash out ...)? So - maybe its just the policies of a foreign populist right wing government increasing the number of crooks in NZ?

The other data point in this context ... despite an increase in gang members is the overall crime rate in NZ pretty static and in some areas even dropping.

https://theconversation.com/despite-...clining-156103

You sort of wonder how much of the excitement is due to dirty politicking and the "lock em up" - club?

[Bjauck]

...You sort of wonder how much of the excitement is due to dirty politicking and the "lock em up" - club?

The 501's who often learned their nefarious ways in OZ and were then ejected would be adding to the problem.

It may depend where you live and the penetration of the particular gangs in that area, but if the public is comfortable that gang membership is actually not associated with criminal activity and level, or maybe even cause a drop in (reported) criminal activity, then maybe we should leave them alone. It may also avoid examining the uncomfortable questions as to whether deprivation or social inequalities are some of the drivers behind gang membership increases.

[fungus pudding]

Another police officer brutally attacked today. This is becoming a common occurrence and the PM & other Ministers stay quiet. And what about their MP that was the President of the police officer’s union before he became a MP ? Why is that gutless person not speaking up for his former colleagues?

Because he's useless. Beats me why anyone voted for him.

[peetter]

The 501's who often learned their nefarious ways in OZ and were then ejected would be adding to the problem.

It may depend where you live and the penetration of the particular gangs in that area, but if the public is comfortable that gang membership is actually not associated with criminal activity and level, or maybe even cause a drop in (reported) criminal activity, then maybe we should leave them alone. It may also avoid examining the uncomfortable questions as to whether deprivation or social inequalities are some of the drivers behind gang membership increases.

That public is comfortable there's no criminal activity, doesn't at all mean ther is no criminal activity. That kind of thinking is exxactly what leads to more crime. There's a lot of public covering the crimes, then there's a huge part completely oblivious to it.

I am still extremely surprised criminal organizations work publicly in NZ. That's something unheard of where I come from and I find it a failure of government.