Election Tax Talk: Who's Really "Rich"?

With election campaigning now in full swing, host Andrew Urquhart is joined by commentator Tash McGill to unpack the tax policies dividing Labour, the Greens, National and ACT - from capital gains and wealth taxes to tax-free thresholds and no-new-taxes pledges. They explore why so few voters see themselves as "rich" enough to be taxed more, even as parties campaign on taxing wealth at one end or cutting it at the other.

Tash challenges the assumption that left-leaning policy is inherently about taxing the wealthy while right-leaning policy simply rewards them, pointing out that the same income can mean very different lifestyles depending on where someone lives. She argues genuine generosity can't be mandated through tax brackets, and highlights ACT's targeted small-business tax cut as an example of pragmatic, non-partisan policy that could matter more than broad ideological stances on wealth redistribution.

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