Richard Prebble - 100% Pure on Taxes

I've had some absolute face palm moments of right-wing woe as of late listening to namby pamby weak centre-right proponents infect our minds with ideas that more and new taxes may be good.

As mentioned in my political philosophy post at the time of Labour's buggers muddle of a tax policy:

All tax is evil. All tax is theft. And I will never be a part of introducing new taxes because the taxes you have right now are evil and thieving enough.

I took a swipe at ACT's Founding Great-Grandfather and soon to be again a Former MP Sir Roger Douglas. It is about time someone on the centre-right did in terms of his mushy Yeltsin-branded thought processes with respect to taxation policy to bring him back to a bit of modern day reality of the monster he helped create:

The only solution to their tax addiction is to just say "no" at the outset. No new taxes. Politicians cannot be trusted not to raise taxes. And yes that includes Sir Roger Douglas who has a manic ideological weakness at the knees as a career politician in terms of taxation. There isn't a known tax that he hasn't at one time or other advocated and there are quite a few unknown taxes I am sure in his head right now waiting to be divulged even at the ripe old age of 73 for one last spin around the Beehive.

Sir Roger slammed National for increasing GST to 15% yet forgetting he was the very enabler who brought the damn tax in.

But there is light at the end of the tunnel in support of my assertions that new taxes are to politicians what heroin is to junkies and it comes from this cameo on Backbenches by Richard Prebble, Former Leader of ACT.

Prebble comes out firmly opposed to Capital Gains Tax. Prebble even reminds his old colleague Sir Roger of the nightmare that the introduction of GST and even income taxes has become. Prebble is a man who has grasped lessons from history. His quotes:

"If you could tax your way to prosperity the Soviet Union would have won the Cold War" and;

"Taxes are like acorns... they grow..when the Labour party brought GST in it was 10% and it was never going to be increased and it's now 15%" and;

"When income tax was introduced all the politicians said it was only going to be on the wealthy and of course now it's on all of us".

Rounded off with the grand finale:

"You have Capital Gains tax and it will be on your family home, I'm telling you".



Watch this short clip 1m 19secs I commissioned of Prebble's performance from Master Remixer Whaleoil. Including 30 second "I've Been Thinking" summation from the show at the end.

National will not repeal CGT if Labour and the Greens get in to office and introduce it. There are no second chances to stop CGT and other silly taxes but to kill them off before they take their first breath.

After that it is too late.

Send the politicians back to the drawing board and just say no to new taxes.