Adams Amy; Mallard TrevorHon AMY ADAMS (National—Selwyn): Thank you Mr Speaker. Well for the first 15 months of this Government all we saw were platitudes and nice sounding words and virtue signalling but apparently now it's going to be the year of delivery. So now we're going to see what it's all about. I think finally to be fair we're starting to see the economic plan of this Government and it's pretty clear. The economic plan goes like this: tax every New Zealander more so that Shane Jones can go around with his increasingly dodgy Provincial Growth Fund while Ron Mark can go out threatening people with funding for votes and so that Phil Twyford can go around buying houses that developers can't sell and that nobody else wants and all on the taxpayer's dollar. That's the economic plan of this Government.They're slowly realising you've got to have a lot of money if you're going to throw money around like that at dodgy unsold development properties dodgy Provincial Growth Funds and going around threatening people for votes. So we've got the Tax Working Group who have come along and said Here's how you can take a whole lot more money off those hard-working New Zealanders." The Government's trying to say "Oh well we're not really sure what we're going to do about it." but we know that the Prime Minister desperately wants a capital gains tax. How do we know? Well because in 2017 all through the election campaign—Rt Hon Winston Peters: Who brought the last capital gains tax in? You guys.Hon AMY ADAMS: —she said she was going to bring one in. She was going to bring it in. Winston Peters of course great defender of principles that he is insisted he'd never vote for one and let's see how that goes. But no the Prime Minister insisted she was going to bring in a capital gains tax. And we know Grant Robertson wants one. We know Grant Robertson wants one because Michael Cullen told him to want one and Grant Robertson does whatever Michael Cullen tells him to do.The funny thing is 18 months in they've only just started to figure out that New Zealand doesn't want a capital gains tax. So in the last week Labour is going to their own members and saying "Oh what do you guys think? We're not quite sure." or "What do you guys reckon? Have we got that right or not?" It is 18 months on and it's just dawning on them that maybe they don't know everything. It is utterly laughable. Here they've got all the way through the Tax Working Group report they've been briefed on what it would do—they told the Tax Working Group to go away and give them a capital gains tax. The Tax Working Group told them last year it would give them a capital gains tax. They had the report for about a month before the public saw it but "We're still not sure what we're going to do about it." they say "Let's just put it out there and see where it goes."So while they figure it all out they've got Michael Cullen getting paid a thousand dollars a day to get political on the taxpayer's dime. Isn't that just another example of this Government's callous disregard for the taxpayers who fund the expenditure? They think nothing of spending taxpayers' dollars to get their old mate out there defending this proposal because Government Ministers—Hon Gerry Brownlee: Three weeks' pension in one day.Hon AMY ADAMS: —still don't know what they think.Let's go through it because Mr Brownlee makes an excellent point. This is Michael Cullen who's on the gold-plated Government superannuation scheme who qualifies for the New Zealand super as well and he's getting more than a thousand dollars a day for four months after the Tax Working Group has finished their work programme. No one else from the Tax Working Group by the way; just Michael Cullen out there raking it in at a thousand dollars a day on top of his Government super on top of that gold-plated scheme because Ministers won't engage in the debate. I think that is irresponsible; it is outrageous.So the Prime Minister recently in a media story told small businesses and farms that they've got nothing to worry about—nothing to worry about. Well that's interesting isn't it because small businesses all have to be revalued at 1 April 2021. We've been told that's a minimum of $10000 a business—a $5 billion compliance cost—but apparently according to the Prime Minister they've got nothing to worry about. "Small business shouldn't worry." the Prime Minister says and yet Peter Beck one of the best entrepreneurs in this country says that this will be an absolute death knell for innovation and entrepreneurship. But the Prime Minister and David Parker and Grant Robertson all know far more than he does about business and they say there's nothing to worry about! Grant Robertson tells us the family home is exempt but forgets to mention that is unless you happen to run your small business from home and then it will get caught—more and more misleading. And look at the farmers. We know that farmers face tens of thousands of dollars in compliance—SPEAKER: Order! Order! The member's time has expired."