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Podcast: Smart Talk
Episode: A Wanaka Festival of Colour panel discussion about taxes - good, bad and inevitable
Description: A panel at Wanaka's Festival of Colour considers whether taxation is love. Lynn Freeman talks to Max Rashbrooke, Prof. Lisa Marriott and Shamubeel Eaqub in April 2021.Is tax theft or is it love? A manifestation of the nanny-state or simply evidence of democratic government in action? How can taxation be made fairer?Many of us want to pay as little as possible yet a panel at this year's Wanaka Festival of Colour argued that taxes - which pool our resources to provide schools, hospitals services and infrastructure - are vital for society to work.<...