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Speaker 1: If you were listening earlier this afternoon to the previous show,

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Speaker 1: Tyler's Show, you will have heard that not everyone loves

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Speaker 1: the package that the government has just announced to help

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Speaker 1: families pay their fuel bills because it's not for everyone.

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Speaker 1: So pensioners have complained that they should be helped as

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Speaker 1: well because they don't have enough money. Beneficiaries have complained,

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Speaker 1: Diesel users have complained because their fuel has actually gone

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Speaker 1: up much more than petrol. And then there are also

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Speaker 1: wealthy people who are complaining because they don't have kids,

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Speaker 1: and they're complaining they're once again getting nothing while the

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Speaker 1: breeders are and they're subsidizing them. Now, I understand the

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Speaker 1: sentiment from everyone. All of it is fair, but I

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Speaker 1: think the government is right to have limited this package

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Speaker 1: like they have because we are just too broke as

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Speaker 1: a country to shell out fifty bucks a week for everyone,

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Speaker 1: including millionaires. Plus we have just spent four years fighting inflation.

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Speaker 1: We know what that feels like, right, We know how

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Speaker 1: hard that is. The Last thing we want to do

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Speaker 1: is pump so much money into the economy that flation

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Speaker 1: just goes Inflation just goes up again, and we have

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Speaker 1: to start this fight again. So if you have to

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Speaker 1: choose who you give the money to, you choose workers

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Speaker 1: because they have to get to work beneficiaries. Don't you

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Speaker 1: choose parents because their budgets are much less flexible. They

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Speaker 1: have added fixed costs that they just cannot escape, like childcare,

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Speaker 1: like dropping the kids off at school. I think the

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Speaker 1: government's actually done a pretty good job here of threading

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Speaker 1: the needle with this package. It's not inflationary if it's

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Speaker 1: only reallocating money that would have been spent at the

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Speaker 1: budget anyway. It's not taking on any extra debt that

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Speaker 1: wouldn't already have been taken on because it's in the

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Speaker 1: budget anyway. It has an off ramp of ending this

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Speaker 1: payment after a year, or when the price of ninety

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Speaker 1: one falls under three dollars for full consecutive weeks, whichever

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Speaker 1: comes first. I think part of the reason that so

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Speaker 1: many people are complaining today is because Jacinda and Grant

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Speaker 1: and COVID have got us addicted to government help. If

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Speaker 1: there is a problem, we now first of all expect

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Speaker 1: it's our defaults to expect the government to fix it,

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Speaker 1: isn't it, And we often expect the government to fix

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Speaker 1: it with money. We need to get off that because

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Speaker 1: we should have learned what happens after that. What happens

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Speaker 1: when you turn on the money hose from the government

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Speaker 1: is then you get inflation, then you get a recession.

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Speaker 1: Being more targeted and being more dis YEP, even if

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Speaker 1: most of us miss out, the vast majority of US

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Speaker 1: miss out ultimately does mean less pain for us. All.

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