{"id":60529,"date":"2023-12-14T08:55:15","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T23:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/14\/labour-failed-but-new-zealand-cant-put-a-wealth-tax-back-in-the-bottle"},"modified":"2023-12-14T08:55:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T23:55:15","slug":"labour-failed-but-new-zealand-cant-put-a-wealth-tax-back-in-the-bottle-max-rashbrooke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60529","title":{"rendered":"Labour failed but New Zealand can\u2019t put a wealth tax \u2018back in the bottle\u2019 | Max Rashbrooke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labour party couldn\u2019t \u2018sell\u2019 the tax in the last election but the policy won\u2019t fade away as global concern over wealth inequality deepens<\/p>\n<p>Licking its wounds from October\u2019s election defeat, the New Zealand Labour party faces an internal struggle over a question that could define its recent past and its future electoral prospects: whether to campaign for a tax on the assets of the country\u2019s wealthiest individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Insiders say party members still feel \u201canger and disappointment\u201d about the \u201ccaptain\u2019s call\u201d by leader Chris Hipkins to rule out running on a wealth tax in this year\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p><em>Max Rashbrooke is a senior research fellow in Victoria University\u2019s School of Government<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/14\/labour-failed-but-new-zealand-cant-put-a-wealth-tax-back-in-the-bottle\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour party couldn\u2019t \u2018sell\u2019 the tax in the last election but the policy won\u2019t fade away as global concern over wealth inequality deepensLicking its wounds from October\u2019s election defeat, the New Zealand Labour party faces an internal struggle over a q&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":705,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60530,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60529\/revisions\/60530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}