The Greens wealth tax

[Oh_hunnihunni]

" In New Zealand the wealthiest tenth own one-quarter of the country's assets, while the poorest half of the country has just 2 per cent. (Rashbrooke, 2021, p. 52.) That leaves many people in poverty, lacking the resources they need to participate in society and follow their dreams."

I enjoy your posts suedonim, but in this case you are plain wrong. And having been on both ends of this particular life experience I can assure you that living frugally or being wasteful has very little to do with where one can end up. Good fortune - aka luck, has a hell of a lot more influence.

The other interesting discovery I have made is the realisation that neither poverty nor wealth has much do with happiness. Sure, you can have the privilege of buying comfort in your misery, but being well off does not automatically bestow contentment. In fact some of the unhappiest people I know are the wealthiest, poor buggers! So maybe, in proposing to lower, very slightly, the burden of their wealth, the Greens are actually doing the very rich a favour... (And only the very rich, I might add, if you check the policy details.)

(And yes, my tongue is firmly in my cheek!)

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