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Speaker 1: Labour's getting flack, especially in Auckland, for their capital gains tax,

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Speaker 1: and rightly so. But National's approach, as is usually the

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Speaker 1: case with center right parties, is user pays. It's a

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Speaker 1: way to get revenue without appearing to tax grab your poor,

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Speaker 1: old starving constituents. Yesterday it was whacking a new tax

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Speaker 1: on our power bills in order to make them cheaper.

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Speaker 1: We hope. Last week they scraped the full driver licensed test.

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Speaker 1: But then NZTA comes out and says, oh, we might

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Speaker 1: need to increase fees for the first test and for

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Speaker 1: other bits to make up costs. We all pay tolls

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Speaker 1: to get the roads that we want. We're about to

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Speaker 1: get hit with congestion charging. International tourists pay a tourist tax,

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Speaker 1: of course, Domestic tourists pay to use dock huts. More recently,

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Speaker 1: car parks. At peak places Wellington, you'll probably have to

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Speaker 1: pay some kind of targeted special rate for pumping all

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Speaker 1: your number twos into the cook straight now, so long

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Speaker 1: as this stuff is ring fenced, I prefer things are

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Speaker 1: charged in this way because if if you don't want

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Speaker 1: to use a toll road, user taxed one, you know,

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Speaker 1: user pays makes more sense to me, it's fairer to

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Speaker 1: those who use it, more importantly to those who don't

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Speaker 1: use a particular good or service. But at some point

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Speaker 1: your household budget is hit with so many fees and

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Speaker 1: charges that you have to stop and ask how long

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Speaker 1: this can continue? It's death by a thousand cuts, And

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Speaker 1: then you ask, can the government cut wasteful spending elsewhere

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Speaker 1: to cover some of this stuff? Or give me back

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Speaker 1: some tax please that I'm currently paying handover fist. In

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Speaker 1: case you needed examples of that this week, Shane Jones's

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Speaker 1: half billion dollar slush fund would be a good place

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Speaker 1: to start. I would have thought for more. From early

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