Fiona Barber: Taxing lyrical123RF OK, so we' might feel richer if we didn't give some of our money to the government... but we are better off as a society when we all cough up. * Fiona Barber: Hungry for social justice* Fiona Barber: What's wrong with whopper houses? But if we want the sort of New Zealand I think we do, we must all contribute fairly. And we must stop thinking of the T-word as something punitive; something to be cynically manipulated to prevent us paying our share. And I'm with Shamubeel Eaqub who also wrote: "At its core, tax is about pooling our resources and redistributing, so that society is better off.

Source: Stuff December 08, 2017 16:00 UTC