In June, the Greens announced their Income Guarantee plan, which would be funded by a Wealth tax. Last month, Labour ruled out the possibility of a Wealth and Capital Gains tax should they be re-elected, but the polls seem to be telling a different story about what Aotearoa wants, with a recent One News poll reflecting 63% in favour of a Wealth tax.
Beth sat down with Professor of Tax Law at the University of Auckland Craig Elliffe to speak about the economic viability of a Wealth tax in Aotearoa and the national support expressed in recent polls. She also caught up with Co-leader of the Green Party Marama Davidson about the Greens' Income Guarantee plan and Labour's decision to rule out a Wealth tax.
Labour recently proposed to implement compulsory financial literacy education in schools if they are re-elected. Many have welcomed this, with National also supporting this proposal.
Olivia spoke to Massey University Business School’s Associate Dean Māori, Professor Matthew Roskruge, about this proposal, and the importance of applying a Māori lens to it.
In the lead up to the election, political parties have been proposing different measures to address the cost of living crisis.
If re-elected, Labour has promised to scrap goods and services tax from fresh and frozen fruit and vegetables from 1 April next year, claiming it would save an average household about $4.25 per week.
First, News and Editorial Director Jessica Hopkins spoke to New Zealand Council of Trade Unions President Richard Wagstaff, and asked him what impact they believe this policy would have for low to middle income workers and their whanau.
She also asked Child Poverty Action Group’s Alan Johnson to weigh in on how effective they believe this policy would be in alleviating cost of living pressures.
To hear from an economist's perspective she spoke to Chief Executive and Principal Economist at Infometrics, Brad Olsen, who has been a vocal opponent of the policy. I started off the interview by asking him why he believes the policy would not benefit consumers.
Lastly, she spoke to Senior Taxation Lecturer at AUT Ranjana Gupta, who gave her thoughts on the policy and suggested potential alternatives.
For our weekly catch-up Caeden speaks to Minister Andrew Little about Labour’s policies to combat the cost of living crisis and an open letter calling to scrap the acceptable standards of health criteria for visa applications.
For City Counselling, News and Editorial Director Jessica Hopkins speaks to Auckland Councillor Shane Henderson about the council deciding on whether to establish seats for Māori representatives and on-street parking prices increasing across the city.
Beth speaks with Professor of Tax Law at the University of Auckland Craig Elliffe, about the economic viability of a Wealth tax in Aotearoa.
She also speaks to co-leader of the Green Party Marama Davidson about the Greens’ Income Guarantee Plan.
Olivia speaks to Massey University Business School’s Māori Economist Mathew Roskruge about Labour's pledge to make financial literacy compulsory at schools.
She also speaks to Chief Executive of Tourism Industry Aotearoa Rebecca Ingram about the role of Aotearoa’s tourism industry in our economy.
For City Counselling this week, our regular catch-up with the Auckland Council, News and Editorial Director Jessica Hopkins spoke to Councillor Shane Henderson about the council deciding on whether to establish seats for Māori representatives and on-street parking prices increasing across the city.
Kris from bFM’s Plato’s Retreat is in the hot seat today serving up beats with a slide of cannabis-in-the-media eatables, baked by another Chris. Also, find out what time Corey went to sleep this morning!
💚 Kia ora wonderful humans (and robots). Slip inside a genre-free three hours of fun. Eli takes you through some older Sonic Youth, Cymande, and The Masqueraders cuts. Some slightly brave cuts from Jackie McLean, Michael Carvin make their way in. And we have you covered on the electronica front as always with Cesco, Ozwald and Kaval giving you more percussion than you can shake ya little fists at. Apologies for being a bit slow on this bCast. As always we have the weekly spotify playlist updated too. Sending all the love and see you same time next week! 💚
Calibre - Planet Hearth The Durutti Column - Sketch for Summer Clementine Valentine - The Rope Róisín Murphy, DJ Koze - You Knew (Edit) Nabihah Iqbal - This World Couldn’t See Us Xani Hall - Intuition Epoch - Generation Herbs - Them’s The Breaks Sonic Youth - Kool Thing Mitski - Bug Like an Angel Cymande - Zion I Cornelia Murr - Tokyo Kyoto NullObject - Glacial Field [Amamelia Remix] CANU, Nu, Alejandro Castelli - Mariposa Mount Kimbie - Carbonated The Maccabees - Kamakura Home Brew - Dedicated To (Intro) Lips - Everything to Me Cesco - Drones Ozwald - Lord of the Buss Swallow the Rat - Terra Nullius T.G. Shand - Notions Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, Haley Reinhart - My Baby Just Cares For Me (Live) Jacques Greene, How To Dress Well - On Your Side (Radio Version) Serebii - Lost Your Breath Connan Mockasin - Caramel Fontaines D.C. - No The Masqueraders - Baby It’s You Omar S, Desire - HARD TIMES Jackie McLean, Michael Carvin - De i comahlee ah 1tbsp, Mora y Los Metegoles - Sleeves Touch My Elbows Headache - That Thing with the Rabbit Jamie T - Sticks ‘N’ Stones The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio Arc De Soleil - Loop Drive Kaval - Nerve Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me Home Brew - Chicken Chowmein Future Islands - Little Dreamer