On Wed, 02 Apr 2025 15:16:09 +1300, Crash <
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On Tue, 01 Apr 2025 22:43:07 +1300, Rich80105 <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:41:21 +1300, Crash <[email protected]d> >>wrote:
https://www.taxpayers.org.nz/jordan_williams_departure
Nicola Willis did not play ball though. No MSM coverage it seems.
It was good of them to acknowledge the generous support of the Atlas >>Network, but I suspect most was received from corporate sponsors who
were able to make a donation without it counting as being a donation
to a political party . . .
Why do you consider the TU a political party?
I don't! They are carefully not a political party, so significant
donations to them do not need to be declared and made public as do
donations to a political party.
If however some donors are politically inclined, the Taxpayers Union
advocates for lower taxes (for the wealthy), has organised campaigns
on other 'special issues' such as the Groundswell protests; they fund
regular political polls which used to be paid for by the National
Party, and they do not appear to regard rates as being taxation, as
they have not protested very large increases in rates due to the
government insisting that local authorities must pay for water
management, with borrowing at higher interest rates than if borrowing
was undertaken by government and on-lent to local authorities.
Do you consider the Taxpayers Union, or the Free Speech Union to be a
political parties?
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