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There is a rather strange poll being run by Bill English HERE asking us to vote on whether we support the tax changes to property.  (PLEASE GO AND VOTE).

But the reason I say it’s weird is that I can’t figure out why he would do it.

Firstly it is going to be vested interest groups like ours that drive traffic to the site voting against the changes and he would have known that from the get go. The poll is increasingly not in support of the tax changes which is to be expected.

Secondly it is also a given that he will take no notice of the poll.  It is on his site but not promoted until the likes of Property Talk and myself tell others about it, so there is obviously no genuine intention to discover the opinion of the people.

So my conclusion is that the budget is going to be quite punitive and by having this on his site but deliberately not promoting it Bill will be able to say: “Well we asked New Zealanders what they thought and there was little response at all.  If people felt so strongly about it why didn’t they vote?”

I don’t know, am I overly cynical?

What do you think?? Why would a cabinet minister run a poll about ill formed and unpopular tax changes and then not advertise the fact or make any effort to genuinely canvas public opinion.

Maybe I’m overthinking this but it just doesn’t make sense to me.  What do you reckon??

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