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Speaker 1: So welcome to the fuel crisis, which is starting to

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Speaker 1: feel a little bit like COVID junior. With the government

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Speaker 1: apparently developing targeted support for lower middle income households facing

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Speaker 1: the rising fuel prices due to the ongoing international fuel crisis.

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Speaker 1: Australia is already launching these things. Now they focus on

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Speaker 1: delivering aid quickly through the tax and welfare system. Yes,

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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, it's another tax credit scheme. Now. The

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Speaker 1: problem with that and so many other tax credit schemes

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Speaker 1: that national have come up with, is that it's such

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Speaker 1: a fath who can actually be bothered in our busy

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Speaker 1: lives to jump through all the hoops to get a

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Speaker 1: few dollars back. Does anybody really in this day and

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Speaker 1: age really take advantage of all those cash back offers? Cush,

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Speaker 1: it's hard work, take family boost. It under delivered costs

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Speaker 1: more than expected and benefited higher income families more than

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Speaker 1: lower income ones, and nearly a quarter of the money

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Speaker 1: allocated went on admin and not to the family. So

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Speaker 1: now Nikola will thinking about another tax credit scheme on

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Speaker 1: fuel prices. She wants the scheme to be simple, but

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Speaker 1: New Zealanders want something simpler. They don't want to have

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Speaker 1: to apply to get money to come back to them.

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Speaker 1: They just don't want to leave the money in the

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Speaker 1: pump in the first place. They wanted to stay in

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Speaker 1: their wallet, not have to apply to get it back later.

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Speaker 1: They want the price at the pump to go down.

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Speaker 1: But Nikola Willis will not touch the existing fuel excise tax,

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Speaker 1: nor will she reduce the forthcoming increase of the fuel

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Speaker 1: tax which is coming later on what is it eighteen

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Speaker 1: cents a leter, Nor will National suggest working from home

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Speaker 1: or subsidizing public transport because they've taken such a hard

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Speaker 1: line against those policies in the past, And of course

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Speaker 1: Hipkins came out and floated there. What Nicholas Willis has

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Speaker 1: been doing is talking to fuel companies today and will

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Speaker 1: that really be any more effective than the fireside chat

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Speaker 1: she had with the supermarkets all with fon terror over

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Speaker 1: the price of butter And it really is starting to

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Speaker 1: feel a little bit like covid iiO, isn't it, with

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Speaker 1: wacky old schemes to get your money back, saying you're

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Speaker 1: going to get your money back, but you never get

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Speaker 1: your money back, the government flapping their guns, but nothing

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