Tax Lies, Perverse Pay Packets and Social Media Meltdowns
About this episode
The episode discusses tax promises, excessive CEO pay, and social media's impact on children amidst political campaigns.
Hosted by Phil Goff and Chris Finlayson , Cross Party Lines returns in a week dominated by tax promises nobody can keep, a CEO pay packet that defies all decency and a rare moment of cross-party agreement on social media and children that both men want to see survive the campaign. All thanks to Frank Risk Management - the 100% Kiwi owned insurance brokerage and proudly the foundational partner of Cross Party Lines. In this episode: * The tax debate nobody’s having honestly — National is running a campaign claiming Labour will introduce nine to eleven new taxes. Labour is talking about one: capital gains. But Phil is equally unsparing about his own side — jumping on the bandwagon to promise no fuel excise increase, regardless of the road maintenance bill that creates, is not honest politics either. Chris reaches back to George H.W. Bush’s “read my lips, no new taxes” pledge — delivered in New Orleans in 1988, broken within two years for entirely good economic reasons — as the canonical warning against definitive promises in election campaigns. * $30 million for a CEO while the stock tanks — and what it says about corporate governance — The revelation that a major New Zealand CEO…
People in this episode
Hosts: Phil Goff, Chris Finlayson
Topics covered
- tax promises
- CEO pay
- corporate governance
- social media
- political honesty
Keywords
- tax debate
- executive pay
- populism
- political promises
- social media
Sponsors
Frank Risk Management
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Places: New Zealand
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