Comments on: Working for families? http://rowansimpson.com/2008/05/27/working-for-families/ Made in New Zealand from local and imported ingredients Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:58:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Tax Statement « Rowan Simpson http://rowansimpson.com/2008/05/27/working-for-families/#comment-7925 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:10:30 +0000 http://rowan.wordpress.com/?p=442#comment-7925 [...] income tax rates from the IRD site, I’ve put together this simple spreadsheet to implement the idea I mentioned here last week, breaking the total tax paid amount down by government [...]

]]> By: Falafulu Fisi http://rowansimpson.com/2008/05/27/working-for-families/#comment-7919 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:06:20 +0000 http://rowan.wordpress.com/?p=442#comment-7919 Rowan, Working for family (WFF) is wrong because what it does by this socialist government is wealth distribution. It takes money (via taxation) from Paul to pay Peter. Having more children which everyone knows that comes with a heavy burden to the parents is a lifestyle choice. If one wants to have 6 children, that’s fine, it is their choices, but why should everyone else contributes to the raising of that family with many children via the WFF which is basically a state welfare. It is not fare to those who are not qualify to WFF handouts whom by their own choices, decided that having many children is a huge burden to their working life and therefore avoid having that many in the first place.

]]> By: James http://rowansimpson.com/2008/05/27/working-for-families/#comment-7873 Wed, 28 May 2008 08:24:46 +0000 http://rowan.wordpress.com/?p=442#comment-7873 It still surprises me that a whole country, as isolated as we are from the world can run a government and infrastructure from the tax and GST of a population the size of many small cities in the world. I think that’s kind of cool.

I have no idea how to fix the problems that we are faced with – 10 of my best friends have recently moved overseas (mainly to Australia)due to the better pay, lifestyle and adventure.

What can we do to retain them? (~30,000 people/year leave for Oz alone)The amount of tax that they would take with them must add up to more than a block of cheese I’m sure…

What are the main factors keeping people in NZ? Should the government be trying harder to keep us here instead of bringing in immigrants? Would a tax cut make me stay if I didn’t own my own business?

I don’t know, just something I have been wondering about since I saw that documentary on 60 minutes recently.

]]> By: Tim Haines http://rowansimpson.com/2008/05/27/working-for-families/#comment-7872 Wed, 28 May 2008 08:18:31 +0000 http://rowan.wordpress.com/?p=442#comment-7872 That would be very very interesting.

]]> By: Tax matters? « Rowan Simpson http://rowansimpson.com/2008/05/27/working-for-families/#comment-7864 Mon, 26 May 2008 22:04:58 +0000 http://rowan.wordpress.com/?p=442#comment-7864 [...] « How many can you recognise? Working for families? [...]

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