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Speaker 1: Jeez, I'd love to know what labor are saying behind

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Speaker 1: closed doors about the Green Party's alternative budget released today.

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Speaker 1: I mean they're sort of playing nice in public, but

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Speaker 1: behind closed doors they must be tearing their hair out

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Speaker 1: because this is next level crazy. I mean, none of

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Speaker 1: it is a surprise. It is full of exactly the

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Speaker 1: kind of utopian money grows on trees. When I grow up,

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Speaker 1: I want to be a unicorn kind of stuff that

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Speaker 1: we expect from the Greens. There is a wealth tax.

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Speaker 1: There is an increased company's tax. There is rather there

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Speaker 1: are two personal tax rates, two new personal tax rates.

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Speaker 1: There's a private jet tax, an inheritance tax, doubling the

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Speaker 1: bright Line test to bring in more capital gains tax,

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Speaker 1: and a doubling of the minerals tax. They're also going

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Speaker 1: to save some money by cutting planned prisoner beds, but

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Speaker 1: they haven't quite explained how they're going to stop these

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Speaker 1: bad guys actually committing the crimes that land them in

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Speaker 1: prison in the first place. They're going to spend the

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Speaker 1: money on light rail in Auckland, an overnight train from

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Speaker 1: Wellington to Auckland, trains from Auckland to Totung, trains from

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Speaker 1: christ Church did and Eden trains from Auckland to Hamilton.

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Speaker 1: Free GPS, free nursing services, free annual dental checkups, free

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Speaker 1: basic dental care, free prescriptions, free childcare from age six months,

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Speaker 1: free income in the form of a UBI for students

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Speaker 1: and beneficiaries. As I say, just the usual crazy stuff

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Speaker 1: which ninety percent of US voters seem to agree make

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Speaker 1: them completely unfit to run the country's books. My reaction,

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Speaker 1: obviously has just been to laugh, because you know, I

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Speaker 1: was five years old too once and I also had

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Speaker 1: these kinds of dreams. Labour's reaction must be to cry

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Speaker 1: because this kind of looney nonsense has paraded a serious policy,

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Speaker 1: just makes it so much harder for Labour to get

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Speaker 1: back into government. I mean, Labor will need the Greens

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Speaker 1: much more than they have in the past. Right we

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Speaker 1: are no longer dealing with the Greens sitting at five percent,

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Speaker 1: where their nutty ideas can be ignored because they will

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Speaker 1: not get as much out of coalition negotiations. We are

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Speaker 1: now dealing with the Green Party consistently sitting at ten

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Speaker 1: percent and above. A Labour Greens government will be three

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Speaker 1: quarters Labor one quarter of the Greens, and that's not

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Speaker 1: even counting the other dollop of crazy that's going to

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Speaker 1: come from the Mardi Party, Jet tax, death tax, wealth tax,

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Speaker 1: crims out on the street. Labor must be weeping today.

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