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Has anyone got the “main details” on how the Fair Tax Campaign was waged? I recall seeing horses with “Fair Tax” written on their rumps. But what were the main points on how the campaign against the Tax was focused?

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"Plans will take time to come to fruition.."

"Funds will be focused strategically to secure improvements in the areas of increased returns to animal owners, wagerers and critical capital programmes...."

How many times have we heard this stuff from successive "experts" ??

We know best, trust us, promise the Earth, drag it out as long as possible ( contract length preferably ) then leave the mess for someone else to clean up......a never ending nightmare of bullshit, incompetence and lack of vision.....:angry:

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a lot memories from back then.....

Stenciling horse's bums at a couple of CJC meetings and snagging a couple of winning bets by backing the relaxed ones!

Fronting up at a trainer's meeting for Canterbury harness racing guys and the meeting got de-railed because a Board member Rob Lawson attended and said don't have a bar of this shyte because Leo Molloy's running it and he's calling us all gypsies. ( Does Rob know you work closely with RJ, Leo?) At their Board meeting the next day HRNZ then distanced themselves from Fairtax - funny that. As per the thoroughbreds though, most trainers and drivers got on board and the smart move from a stencilled bum to a proper set of colours was way more effective.

But the notso good was the "show me the money" component. even though the then Chair trumpeted about "record distributions" in his annual report.

Not once did the NZRB quantify exactly how much the Duty reduction came to - estimates had it in the $33m-$35m range.

Not once did the NZRB quantify where the Duty reduction was applied to.

Best guess had it that $12m went to additional funding distribution to the 3 codes. A similar amount was purportedly applied to reduced %  takeout on some bet types and the rest went into the NZRB's general funds ( keeping in mind that they already had over $50m in reserves at that point.) Winston's $1m races came over and above this and was for a 3 year burst.

It was a windfall, it was a oncer and like the song by Kansas goes....." all it is, is dust in the wind...."

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same political party in control of reigns now, isn't it?

time for accountability, note how they are introducing all these discriminatory taxes to pay for there grandiose " flawed academics who never leave university".

there rot started in NZ in the 1970's with cow emissions - look up how that came to that opinion.

 

fair tax or fart tax??

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