1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: A few sea words for you for your Thursday morning 2 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:07,960 Speaker 1: communist coalition and crash. I'm not going to do the 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,119 Speaker 1: other one crash, because that's what would happen to the 4 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 1: economy if we lived in this green utopia, complete with 5 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:18,080 Speaker 1: the eighty eight billion dollar tax grab announced yesterday. A 6 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:20,919 Speaker 1: coalition because that is what you would get if labor, 7 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 1: not if really, but when Labour shacks up with its 8 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: neighbors on the far left. Hipkins yesterday first claimed not 9 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 1: to have read the manifesto, which no one believes. This 10 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 1: is the manifesto of a party he could well be 11 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 1: sitting around the cabinet table within a year from now. 12 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 1: He then refused to rule out anything in it. Won't 13 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:43,159 Speaker 1: rule out the hammer, won't rule out the sickle. The 14 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:45,360 Speaker 1: Greens and this is what this shows us, once again, 15 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 1: are by far and away Hipkins's biggest achilles heel and 16 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 1: therefore Luxeon's greatest strength. Remember the hit that they took 17 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:57,080 Speaker 1: in the polls. This is Labor over the defunded police thing. 18 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 1: Here's the thing about New Zealander is your middle voters 19 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 1: that they want these bigger parties. We may not right 20 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 1: now be affected by the inheritance tax, or the wealth 21 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 1: tax that they're talking about and proposing the higher income taxes, 22 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 1: the company tax hikes which would put them amongst the 23 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 1: highest in the developed world. But the problem for Hipkins 24 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 1: and co is that we would like to be Kiwi. 25 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 1: Families would like to start a business and create a 26 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:28,039 Speaker 1: life for their families, an asset and income, a future. 27 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 1: They dream of working their way up the latter at work, 28 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 1: get that better salary, get into that better house that 29 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:36,199 Speaker 1: they've been saving to own. They don't think it's fear 30 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:40,039 Speaker 1: for part of mum and Dad's life, work and savings 31 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 1: to be stolen and taken from them by the state 32 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:47,240 Speaker 1: at their end. The election of John Key showed us 33 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 1: that families are ambitious in New Zealand. They believe in 34 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 1: themselves to do better. They're quite motivated and they are 35 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 1: ready for this recession to be over so that basically 36 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 1: we can all just get on with it. I've never 37 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 1: doubted that spirit in New zeal And. That spirit hasn't 38 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: left for Australia. It's just been hiding under a rock 39 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:08,359 Speaker 1: for six years. And yes there are social problems here 40 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 1: in New Zealand. Two. But what we learned from the 41 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 1: Fading Days of Hipkin's reign is that voters don't trust 42 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 1: that if they give up their hard earned money and assets, 43 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 1: that the state has the ability, all the wherewithal to 44 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:27,119 Speaker 1: change any of this, to fix any of it. They're 45 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:30,960 Speaker 1: like the TMU versions of a Michael Joseph Savage. Many 46 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:35,079 Speaker 1: of the houses he built still stand. Building never started 47 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 1: on most of Chippy's. And that brings us to the 48 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 1: final seaward Communists, because I don't know what else do 49 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:44,240 Speaker 1: you call them. The Greens are planning a road show 50 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 1: after this pre budget announcement that they've done. My only 51 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 1: question for Chloe Madama and the rest of them, will 52 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 1: you be traveling to these towns and cities by bicycle 53 00:02:55,280 --> 00:03:03,359 Speaker 1: or will you be flying on an aeroplane? For more 54 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:06,480 Speaker 1: from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge, listen live to News 55 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 1: Talk SETB from five am weekdays, or follow the podcast 56 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 1: on iHeartRadio.