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David Seymour......potential?

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« Reply #25 on: September 07, 2017, 06:21:37 pm »

..yup..unions like to hold back the potential....primitively human behavior 🙄

No love lost between ACT and Teachers’ unions

Rural schools temporarily closing due to a lack of staff is something we’d expect from the third world, not New Zealand, says ACT Leader David Seymour.


 
“Desperate staff shortages demonstrate are emerging as teacher salaries have fallen by 30% compared to average salaries – all thanks to rigid union contracts,” says Mr Seymour.

“Parents worried about getting the best and brightest in front of their kids will be outraged to hear that in some cases there won’t be any teacher at all. It’s a fundamental failure to keep the promise of a quality education for every New Zealand child.

“Decades of neglect caused by a broken union model have constricted teacher salaries. And we know from socialist countries like Venezuela that when you have a price cap (in this case on teacher salaries), you get shortages. This is why New Zealand schools badly need ACT’s education policy of putting a billion dollars more into teacher salaries and abandoning union payscales.


“Regional schools need to be able to offer salaries high enough to attract teachers, even if it means a change in lifestyle. With three teachers, a small rural school like Tauhoa would receive $60,000 more funding for staff. This would make an enormous difference.

Good teachers are held back by their union.  And they know it.  But they also know to keep their heads down.  Doing the same thing for everyone always drags the result down to the lowest common denominator.
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« Reply #26 on: September 07, 2017, 06:53:38 pm »


David Seymour is a stupid fuck-wit who cannot even win a seat in Parliament all by himself.

He can only get there by the Nats throwing the Epsom seat.

Kinda says it all about him, eh?
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« Reply #27 on: September 07, 2017, 07:08:48 pm »

....ahhhh..yeah....nah..

What's your take on it🤡
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« Reply #28 on: September 12, 2017, 06:31:14 pm »

....excellent idea....some individual responsibility ...long overdue in our population🙄



Parenting classes, fines, benefit restrictions for parents of truants: Act Party policy

The Act Party wants a crackdown on truants - and their parents.

Parents whose children repeatedly wag school would be made to attend parenting classes and face increased fines under Act Party policy.

Act leader David Seymour released the hard-line policy today, saying on average each day 34,000 Kiwi children are absent from school without justification.

He said Act would require compulsory parenting classes for children who persistently missed school, and increase the fine for parents of truant children from $15 a day to $50 a day. The maximum fine would increase from $150 to $500.

"These fines will actually be enforced because they'll be collected by the IRD instead of the school," Seymour said.

If a truant child's parents are on benefits then Seymour said they would be put on "income management" by the Ministry of Social Development.

"In other words, that family's benefit payments will go directly from MSD toward essentials like bills and groceries before leftovers are paid to parents in cash."

Finally, Seymour said the same income management would be put on parents of children convicted of repeat offences. They would also be made to attend parenting courses.

"If they fail to teach kids right from wrong then the Government needs to step in to break the cycle of crime in our neighbourhoods. And that means consequences for the parents of these kids too."

Last month, National Party justice spokeswoman Amy Adams announced policy to let judges send serious youth offenders to boot camp at Waiouru for up to a year, and let police issue instant $200 fines to parents of children wandering the streets from midnight to 5am.

In response, Seymour attacked National as the "worst reoffenders in youth crime". He pointed out that the boot camp policy was previously announced by John Key - in 2008 when he was in Opposition - and said it had failed because National did not want to commit to addressing youth crime beyond slogans.

Act will release further youth justice policy tomorrow and on Thursday.

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« Reply #29 on: September 12, 2017, 06:54:25 pm »


Hahaha....David Seymour....isn't he that idiot who can only get into parliament by another political party throwing their seat to him?

SNIGGER....talk about a useless politician who cannot even stand on his own two feet and win elections all by himself, eh?

Mind you....it doesn't surprise me that Reality/Donald supports such an inept politician.
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« Reply #30 on: September 12, 2017, 08:24:39 pm »

..ahhhh...so which ACT policies don't you like...apart from personal responsibility ...of course you would not like that...you need that embryonic nanny state feeling
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« Reply #31 on: September 12, 2017, 08:40:36 pm »


When David Seymour can stand in an electorate and win it without the Nats throwing their own candidate under the bus to give Seymour a hospital pass, then I'll start taking him seriously.
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« Reply #32 on: September 12, 2017, 09:14:36 pm »

...what...you don't like mmp😜
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« Reply #33 on: September 17, 2017, 06:51:44 am »

...yup...let's level the playing field...they should pay tax like the rest of us🙄


How some New Zealand business make billions and pay no tax
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Ngāi Tahu is exempt from income tax because the sole shareholder for all its businesses is a registered charity.
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Ngāi Tahu is exempt from income tax because the sole shareholder for all its businesses is a registered charity.

Many New Zealanders may be unaware the maker of their favourite breakfast cereal is owned by a church.

The breakfast staple Weetbix is owned and made by Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing Company, which was established by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1898 to promote and produce plant-based health foods.

On its website the company said this was based on the church's belief that plant-based diets are designated by God for the health of the human race.

But because it is a church, Sanitarium have never paid income tax.


Under New Zealand law, churches are exempt from income tax because they have a charitable purpose – they promote religion.

ACT party leader David Seymour wants to close the charitable trust tax loophole.
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While Sanitarium is a commercial business, it's sole shareholder is The New Zealand Conference Association, which is a registered charitable trust.

Britain amended this charitable tax loophole in the 1920s and ACT party leader David Seymour wants New Zealand to catch up and do the same.

"I don’t know what their [Sanitarium's] purpose is. They would argue they do charitable stuff to the same value as what they would have paid in tax," Seymour said.

Dr Michael Gousmett has been researching New Zealand charitable trusts for more than a decade and is calling for ...
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Dr Michael Gousmett has been researching New Zealand charitable trusts for more than a decade and is calling for legislation changes in the sector.

Ngāi Tahu is another commercial operator that doesn't pay income tax because the sole shareholder for all its charitable operations is Ngāi Tahu Charitable Trust.

In the year to 30 June 2016, Ngāi Tahu Holdings Corporation Limited made a net profit of $210 million, but only distributed $44m to the trust.

A Ngāi Tahu spokeswoman said the remaining profit was reinvested into Ngāi Tahu Holdings Corporation.

"Our distribution model is similar to many of the larger community trusts in New Zealand and internationally renowned Yale and Harvard Endowment Funds, so we compare well with nationally and internationally recognised intergenerational funds," she said.


Seymour said the charitable tax loophole gives Ngāi Tahu's Go Bus business a competitive advantage to bid for the Auckland Transport bus contract.

"People should be able to get a tax exemption for donating to charity, but when you’ve got those companies that are kind of like charity, kind of like a business, then it would make sense to split them," Seymour said.

The commercial side of the charity can then donate to its charitable side, he said, and claim the tax credit of 33.33 per cent that applies to all charitable donations of at least $5.

"If it’s really true that they give all their profits to their charitable side then they won’t pay any tax. But if some people suspect they are getting away without paying tax and not putting as much into charity as they should, that will level the playing field for that other competitors."

University of Canterbury charities researcher Dr Michael Gousmett has been researching New Zealand charitable trusts for more than a decade and said although many charitable businesses had been hugely successful, there was an issue when a company working the for-profit sector has to compete with a similar businesses that pays no income tax.

"Then you clearly have a fiscal advantage," he said.

New laws were introduced in 2014 to crack down on the number of companies trying to achieve charitable status through the Internal Affairs' Charities Service.

Since 2014, 527 groups have been rejected including national sports administrators such as New Zealand Cricket and Table Tennis NZ, a medieval re-enactment group and dozens of religious groups.

"But the point is no government has ever gone to the point of laying this on the table and going through a select committee process so that interested parties on both sides of the issue can have a democratic debate about whether it's fair charities are able to run businesses and not pay income tax."

"I think the time for that debate is long overdue."

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