Comments on: Tax cut resistance? http://www.justice.net.nz/justwiki/tax-cut-resistance/ Standing Just Where We Are Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:22:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Simon http://www.justice.net.nz/justwiki/tax-cut-resistance/comment-page-1/#comment-13127 Simon Sat, 31 May 2008 01:55:54 +0000 http://www.justice.net.nz/action/tax-cut-resistance/#comment-13127 Many of us would like to be able to "buy" better social support for the least well off, and better education and health for all, through paying more taxes. But it doesn't seem to work that way. So, it really is up to us. Isn't that part of what the church is for? Many of us would like to be able to “buy” better social support for the least well off, and better education and health for all, through paying more taxes. But it doesn’t seem to work that way. So, it really is up to us. Isn’t that part of what the church is for?

]]> By: Ana http://www.justice.net.nz/justwiki/tax-cut-resistance/comment-page-1/#comment-13105 Ana Tue, 27 May 2008 00:48:10 +0000 http://www.justice.net.nz/action/tax-cut-resistance/#comment-13105 Mmm, this is a really interesting idea. What would the focus of the money given be? It's funny that we often are more aware of poverty and injustice overseas than in our own backyards. Not that the huge problems of poverty and injustice abroad don't matter, but perhaps giving a hand up to people struggling in our own context makes the problem uncomfortably close and challenges us to look at some of our own attitudes and wealth. And we really like to just think "It's the government's responsibility - I pay them taxes, how they spend them is something I have very little power over anyway". I don't really need my tax cut and it would be great to see it go instead to fostering the kind of society we really want to see. When I think about it, any unhappiness I have is usually rooted not in any of my own problems, but in the inequality and injustice we see around us in our supposedly free and wealthy nation. So I'd be up for it! Mmm, this is a really interesting idea. What would the focus of the money given be? It’s funny that we often are more aware of poverty and injustice overseas than in our own backyards. Not that the huge problems of poverty and injustice abroad don’t matter, but perhaps giving a hand up to people struggling in our own context makes the problem uncomfortably close and challenges us to look at some of our own attitudes and wealth. And we really like to just think “It’s the government’s responsibility – I pay them taxes, how they spend them is something I have very little power over anyway”.

I don’t really need my tax cut and it would be great to see it go instead to fostering the kind of society we really want to see. When I think about it, any unhappiness I have is usually rooted not in any of my own problems, but in the inequality and injustice we see around us in our supposedly free and wealthy nation.

So I’d be up for it!

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