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Speaker 1: So we've got a fascination with prime ministers and their money,

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Speaker 1: it turns out, and last news last night One News

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Speaker 1: did the calculation that Christopher Luxon stands to make four

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Speaker 1: hundred and eighty thousand dollars off the sale of his

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Speaker 1: apartment in Wellington he's moving out because he's going over

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Speaker 1: to Premier House, and also also a rental property that

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Speaker 1: he's selling in South Auckland. Now, the implication of the

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Speaker 1: story was basically, Christopher Luxen's making too much money off

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Speaker 1: these properties, he should be taxed. Over the weekend, a

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Speaker 1: newspaper in Wellington also reported that Jacinda Rdurn is earning

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Speaker 1: three hundred and sixteen thousand dollars per appearance every time

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Speaker 1: she speaks on the international speaking circuit, and the implication

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Speaker 1: there was certainly in commentary afterwards, that it's unethical for

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Speaker 1: her to be doing that. It's damaging her reputation by

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Speaker 1: showing that she really does love money over doing good

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Speaker 1: after all, and if prime ministers keep on doing stuff

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Speaker 1: like this, how do we know that they're actually making

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Speaker 1: the right decisions when they are in power and not

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Speaker 1: thinking about what kind of money they're going to earn afterwards. Now, Look,

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Speaker 1: I don't mind the fascination with prime minister's and former

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Speaker 1: prime minister's earnings. I think it's completely human nature to

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Speaker 1: be into it, and well, we're fascinated by what our

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Speaker 1: colleagues earned, right, so why wouldn't we be fascinated by

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Speaker 1: what Luxin and a durn earn. However, that is where

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Speaker 1: I think it should stop at fascination. There's nothing wrong

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Speaker 1: with Jasinda Ardun earning that much money off the speaking circuit. Frankly,

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Speaker 1: if we're honest about it, talking was about the only

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Speaker 1: thing she was actually good at, and she'd be a

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Speaker 1: fool not to take that kind of money if it's

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Speaker 1: on offer. Same goes for Luxon. He was a well

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Speaker 1: paid businessman before politics. You would expect him to have

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Speaker 1: plenty of money. You would expect him to put some

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Speaker 1: of that money into property, and unless things have gone

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Speaker 1: very bad for him in his calculations, you would expect

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Speaker 1: him to make money off a property, especially one that

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Speaker 1: he has apparently renovated. Nothing wrong here to suggest that

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Speaker 1: Luckson's capital gain on his property is evidence that we

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Speaker 1: need a capital gains tax, And to suggest that just

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Speaker 1: in the speaking circuit means that we need to put

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Speaker 1: some sort of restraint of trade on future PROME ministers.

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Speaker 1: Is just taking it a bit far, isn't it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's fine to be fascinated, just leave it at that.

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