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Speaker 1: People are talking about Tory Farno one hundred and ninety

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars a year, having to sell a car just

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Speaker 1: her and her personal finances. Frankly, this is about us.

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Speaker 1: This is about us, the voters, the taxpayers, the ratepayers.

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Speaker 1: We're all forced on this ship being sailed by captains

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Speaker 1: that half of us didn't vote for, and what can

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Speaker 1: sometimes feel a little bit like the Titanic. And we

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Speaker 1: can all work more to get more. This is salary

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Speaker 1: and wages, wealth. We can all work more to get more.

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Speaker 1: We can work smarter, we can invest more, we can

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Speaker 1: grow our eggs a little bit more, and many of

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Speaker 1: us do. The median net worth of a Kiwi household

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one was around four hundred thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: And some people take great risks to grow theirs, and

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Speaker 1: they deserve the rewards of that. Many of us fail

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Speaker 1: in business, and we don't talk about that much. Many

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Speaker 1: have mortgage their family homes and you'll find them inside

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Speaker 1: there at night time, light on in the bedroom, not sleeping,

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Speaker 1: with the stress of how they're going to make it work,

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Speaker 1: how they're going to keep them on how they're going

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Speaker 1: to innovate, keep staff on, hire more staff, etc. Others

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Speaker 1: with one, two, three jobs to improve their lot. And

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Speaker 1: most people aspire to create more wealth, not out of

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Speaker 1: sheer selfishness. Well some do, sure, but for most of

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Speaker 1: us it's about providing for their families, leaving something behind

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Speaker 1: husband or wife is taken care of if they are

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Speaker 1: to die early. And for most of us, wealth is

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Speaker 1: not evil. It's actually an act of loving those people

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Speaker 1: around you, those people you care about, which is why

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Speaker 1: when politicians come knocking at the door demanding a so

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Speaker 1: called wealth tax, or that the wealthy pay more, not

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Speaker 1: just income tax, but those imaginary wealth taxes too, we

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Speaker 1: get so touchy about it, don't we. We're like when

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Speaker 1: my dog's eating dinner and I try and approach it.

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Speaker 1: That's how we feel. As a collective, get away, it's mine,

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Speaker 1: hands off. The irony in this is that Tory Farno

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Speaker 1: is part of the Greens who advocate for exactly this

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Speaker 1: type of approach. They say tax is love, not wealth

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Speaker 1: is love, and sure, when money is well spent and

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Speaker 1: services delivered, maybe tax is love. But cycle bridges to

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Speaker 1: know where half million dollar bike racks, contractor and consultant

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Speaker 1: money scrambles. They don't feel like love to me. They

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Speaker 1: feel more like abuse. For more from News Talks B

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