Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 17, 2019 4:54:36 GMT 12
Hawkes Bay Today 17/5/19
CODSWALLOP ON TAX
I am writing in response to an article in HB Today May 14. page 21. headline reading 'Maori pay $723m in tobacco taxes". Dr Mar ewa Glover calls for revenue to be returned to iwi for new homes and to change behaviours.
I am very sorry but feel this is inciting drastic racism.
How on earth can anyone request that revenue/taxes gathered from one particular ethnic group should be returned to their iwi I have never read so much codswallop in all my life.
Everyone has a choice whether they smoke or drink a gamble and it is up to the individual.
Almost as pathetic as saying I have no children at school so any tax I pay should not be proportioned to education".
I would imagine Dr Glover was paid for the commission that spouts this utter nonsense. I for one would like my portion of funding returned.
JOHN HOGAN Napier
Rotorua Daily Post 17/5/19
NO SMOKE, NO TAXES
In response to the article in the Rotorua Daily Post about Maori paying tobacco taxes and it being returned to iwi (News, May 15).
I would like to say: Stop smoking then you won't have to pay the tax.
If the tax goes anywhere, it should go to the health sector, which is where the smokers end up.
It is not just Maori who smoke, so where does the money go from the non-Maori population who pay the taxes? (Abridged)
ANNA GARRATT Ngongotaha
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers
CODSWALLOP ON TAX
I am writing in response to an article in HB Today May 14. page 21. headline reading 'Maori pay $723m in tobacco taxes". Dr Mar ewa Glover calls for revenue to be returned to iwi for new homes and to change behaviours.
I am very sorry but feel this is inciting drastic racism.
How on earth can anyone request that revenue/taxes gathered from one particular ethnic group should be returned to their iwi I have never read so much codswallop in all my life.
Everyone has a choice whether they smoke or drink a gamble and it is up to the individual.
Almost as pathetic as saying I have no children at school so any tax I pay should not be proportioned to education".
I would imagine Dr Glover was paid for the commission that spouts this utter nonsense. I for one would like my portion of funding returned.
JOHN HOGAN Napier
Rotorua Daily Post 17/5/19
NO SMOKE, NO TAXES
In response to the article in the Rotorua Daily Post about Maori paying tobacco taxes and it being returned to iwi (News, May 15).
I would like to say: Stop smoking then you won't have to pay the tax.
If the tax goes anywhere, it should go to the health sector, which is where the smokers end up.
It is not just Maori who smoke, so where does the money go from the non-Maori population who pay the taxes? (Abridged)
ANNA GARRATT Ngongotaha
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers