Millionaire Aussie's advice to NZ: Let the rich pay for covid

Millionaire Aussie's advice to NZ: Let the rich pay for covid
Rebecca Stevenson
New Zealand’s estimated almost $50 billion tax deficit could be paid by rich people keen to move here, multi-millionaire Australian investor Mark Carnegie says.Carnegie, who as of late last year is a resident in NZ, said there was a stark choice facing the country: raising taxes on the working poor and cutting services, or finding new money from somewhere — or someone — else.The now hobbyist Nelson farmer said rich people living outside NZ would happily pay to move here, including friends of his like a “not headline, hea...

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