GV27:

 

Increasing the tax thresholds each year would mean you never get huge one-off cuts, but the governments of the day don't get to dip into a grab bag of excuses for 14 years while they tell the electorate their costs are going up, but you're going to be taxed as if yours are still the same as they were in 2010. 

 

If anything, the fact we can't afford to do a massive one-off alignment is proof that the decision needs to be taken out of politicians' hands.

 

 

 

At which point more stuff becomes "User pays" which is worse.
HOWEVER a better solution is to have a graduated tax regime for businesses too

And court fines need to be based on a % of income so the same kind of "deterrence " is applied no matter what you earn.

Also compulsory travel insurance for tourists entering NZ.