1891: Land and Income Tax Assessment Act
August 27, 2019
By AHNZ
Today is a black day in New Zealand History, especially for Anarchists. 27 Aug 1891, the Land and Income Tax Assessment Act passed into law. The taxing of income per se had begun. So had the principle of Progressive Tax: From Each According to His Ability.
[See above: toon of Ballance, the Rain-Maker- shooting a ‘land tax’ cannon full of ‘prosperity’ down on the happy people (yuck)]
No sooner did the Liberal Government take power, establishing the Liberal Party Era (1891-1912) than this new tax policy became locked down. They were fast workers, fast to reward the Cultures that voted for themselves and fast to punish the Cultures opposed. Another very sad case of natural human ethnographic development perverted by State power.
“In 1891 the Liberal Government first came to power led by John Ballance, aka “The Rainmaker”. He earned that nickname in August 1891 by shifting the burden of taxation off the people who voted for his own party, “working storemen, mechanics, labourers, shepherds, miners, sailors etc.” (ref. Goldsmith, 2008.) The metaphore comes from the fact that, in 1891, actual rain-making was in the national consciousness already in what was also a year of drought.”- 1907: Taxes Spent on State Weather Control Scheme
The administration was now put in place legislatively for Ballance and his Liberals to promote the New Zealanders they wanted to thrive and cull off the members of society that threatened them. Essentially, the Liberals made New Zealand into a haven for the r-selected and a hell for the K-selected members of our society.
For the first time, New Zealanders all had to worry about Income Tax and answer to Tax Collectors sifting through their business. New Zealanders now had an incentive to waste their productive power evading and avoiding being legally robbed in their everyday activity. Well, not quite everyone actually. The Marxist Communist ‘From each according to his need’ Graduated Taxation let those who could show they earned less than £300 away income tax-free. This shifted the burden of paying for Central Government to “rich pricks” and relieved some 40% of taxpayers who were grateful to the Liberals, voting for them again and again.
Liberals put politics first with their Land Tax, exempting lands valued by The State at less than £500. Their voting bloc was once again protected, the most productive people in New Zealand were forced to fund the very people predating upon them. Along with before forced at gun-point to fill Ballance’s coffers for the crime of making money, the station estates were directly targeted for extermination. These were the people who had made New Zealand productive, created the wealth and jobs and produce the city folk and politicians depended upon. By 1893, the Liberals were not only taxing New Zealand’s wealth-generators into oblivion but outlawing them, “busting” them, outright. The hatchet man for this job was Jock McKenzie.
The Liberals stormed to power thanks to the One Man, One Vote electoral change in 1889. The mathematical logic of democracy was now fully established : The many could vote to burden a minority. Socialism is too fine a word. The Liberals had socialism without doctrine, there were no principles or manifestos here just raw r-selected acting out. Those who came later, such as Labour 1.0 had this same energy but needed to clothe their avarice in lingo and slogans like “applied Christianity.”
“This game that we animals play is a winner.”- Jethro Tull
“A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.”- WOPR, War Games (1983)
The foothold Statist parasites gained for colonising New Zealanders in 1891 has never been let go, only expanded upon. In its early stages, without all the Sophistry and propaganda tailor-made to trick the victims of the day, it’s easier to see clearly what it’s really all about. Rather than disestablish Income Tax successive Governments simply try to tilt the machine toward helping their in-group and hurting their out-group. The Anarchist here stands out from the Right and the Left by abstaining from making human sacrifices at all, full stop.
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Image ref. The Rainmaker; William Blomfield, Observer (16 January 1892); Papers Past
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