Ryan Bridge: The Green's budget is in la-la land

Here’s a few c-words for your Thursday morning: communist, coalition, and crash.

Crash, because that’s what’d happen to the economy if we lived in the Green utopia complete with the $88-billion tax train wreck. 

Coalition, because that’s what you’d get if Labour shacks up with their neighbours on the far left.

Hipkins yesterday first claimed not have read the manifesto. Whatever. 

This is the manifesto of a party he could well be sitting round the cabinet table within a year from now. 

He then refused to rule out anything in it. It won't rule out the hammer. And I won't rule out the sickle. 

The Greens are by far Hipkins' biggest Achilles heel, and therefore Luxon’s greatest strength. 

Remember the hit in the polls Labour took over "defend da police"?

Here's the thing about us New Zealanders, your middle voters, we may not right now be affected by the inheritance taxes, wealth taxes, higher income taxes, the company tax hikes which would put them amongst highest in the developed world.

But the problem for Hipkins and Co. is that we'd like to be. 

Kiwi families would like to start a business and create a life for their families. An asset. An income. A future.

They dream of working their way up the ladder to get that better salary to get that house they’ve been saving to own.

They don’t think it’s fair for part of mum and dad’s life work and savings to be stolen by the state. 

The election of John Key showed us families are ambitious. 

They believe in themselves to do better. 

They’re motivated and ready for this recession to be over so we can get on with it.

I’ve never doubted that spirit in New Zealand. That spirit hasn't left for Australia, it was hidden under a rock for six years.

And yes, there are social problems here too.

But what we learnt from the fading days of Hipkins reign is that voters don’t trust if they give up their hard-earned money and assets, that the state has the ability or wherewithal to change any of this.

To fix it.

They’re like Temu versions of a Michael Joseph Savage. Many of the houses he built still stand, building never started on most of Chippy's.

And that brings us to the final C word: communist, because what else do you call them? 

The Greens are planning a roadshow after their pre-Budget announcement. 

My only question for Chlöe, Mārama and Co. is: will you be travelling to these towns and cities by bicycle or will be flying on an aeroplane?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
A few sea words for you for your Thursday morning
communist coalition and crash. I'm not going to do the
other one crash, because that's what would happen to the
economy if we lived in this green utopia, complete with
the eighty eight billion dollar tax grab announced yesterday. A
coalition because that is what you would get if labor,

(00:21):
not if really, but when Labour shacks up with its
neighbors on the far left. Hipkins yesterday first claimed not
to have read the manifesto, which no one believes. This
is the manifesto of a party he could well be
sitting around the cabinet table within a year from now.
He then refused to rule out anything in it. Won't
rule out the hammer, won't rule out the sickle. The

(00:43):
Greens and this is what this shows us, once again,
are by far and away Hipkins's biggest achilles heel and
therefore Luxeon's greatest strength. Remember the hit that they took
in the polls. This is Labor over the defunded police thing.
Here's the thing about New Zealander is your middle voters
that they want these bigger parties. We may not right

(01:04):
now be affected by the inheritance tax, or the wealth
tax that they're talking about and proposing the higher income taxes,
the company tax hikes which would put them amongst the
highest in the developed world. But the problem for Hipkins
and co is that we would like to be Kiwi.
Families would like to start a business and create a

(01:25):
life for their families, an asset and income, a future.
They dream of working their way up the latter at work,
get that better salary, get into that better house that
they've been saving to own. They don't think it's fear
for part of mum and Dad's life, work and savings
to be stolen and taken from them by the state
at their end. The election of John Key showed us

(01:47):
that families are ambitious in New Zealand. They believe in
themselves to do better. They're quite motivated and they are
ready for this recession to be over so that basically
we can all just get on with it. I've never
doubted that spirit in New zeal And. That spirit hasn't
left for Australia. It's just been hiding under a rock
for six years. And yes there are social problems here

(02:08):
in New Zealand. Two. But what we learned from the
Fading Days of Hipkin's reign is that voters don't trust
that if they give up their hard earned money and assets,
that the state has the ability, all the wherewithal to
change any of this, to fix any of it. They're
like the TMU versions of a Michael Joseph Savage. Many

(02:31):
of the houses he built still stand. Building never started
on most of Chippy's. And that brings us to the
final seaward Communists, because I don't know what else do
you call them. The Greens are planning a road show
after this pre budget announcement that they've done. My only
question for Chloe Madama and the rest of them, will

(02:51):
you be traveling to these towns and cities by bicycle
or will you be flying on an aeroplane? For more
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