Faafoi KrisKRIS FAAFOI (Labour—Mana): It is my pleasure to take a call on Part 1 of this Taxation (Budget Measures: Family Incomes Package) Bill. Anyone who has been watching the National Budgets for the last 8 or 9 years will know that National takes a giveth and taketh approach—it gives with one hand and takes with another. Another example of that has been I think it was in 2013 where on the one hand it threw out the lollies and on the other hand we had larger class sizes. It is not until 2 or 3 days or 4 days after the Budget is announced that you find out what the real cost of the Budget sweetener is. This is another one of those pieces of legislation that giveth and taketh. I do want to stick to the rules of the Committee stage—I think it is clause 5 that is one of the taketh clauses in this bill because it gets rid of the independent earner tax credit. So the reality of that is—we have got some legislative jargon here—someone who is single and is on the minimum wage apparently under this Government gets $11 of a tax cut or tax break. But clause 5 of this bill will mean that the reality for their entire pay packet is that they will lose the independent earner tax credit of $10. So I am sure there is a bunch of Einsteins over there who can figure that out—that if you give someone $11 and take away $10 you have actually given them only $1. So for someone who is on the lowest income living by themselves and doing some of these jobs like cleaning the likes of Parliament in and around our country the big win for them in this Budget and in this bill with clause 5 is let us wait for it $1.I do not need $1000 a year—I do not need it. But that is what will happen for someone like me when this piece of legislation comes in. The best that this Government can do for someone who is single and earning the minimum wage is $1. So that pretty much sums up in my books what the priorities of this Government are in this Budget: it is not focused on those earning the least but focused on those earning the most.The Government has also said in the spin around this Budget: We're making sure we're looking after low and middle income earners." Someone earning $52000 is not rich—let us make an absolute fact of that—and they will get some help but those who are earning under that are getting very little. Someone who is in the lowest quintile—and I want to get it right; I am taking it from the Government's own documents—will get a $5 tax credit. Five dollars a week I think—yes that is right. Someone in the top quintile will get $35 a week. I reiterate my point here: the Government spun its backside off yesterday saying that this piece of legislation arising from this Budget was for those on low and middle incomes. But those on the lowest of incomes get a $5 tax break and those on the highest incomes get seven times more at $35.Alastair Scott: Increase taxes then. Increase taxes for those in the higher bracket. Say it!KRIS FAAFOI: Another out-of-touch member from the other side of the Chamber—another out-of-touch member from the other side of the Chamber. It would be nice if he went and spoke to the people of Masterton about this when he gets in his car and travels over there. So that is what I have got to say to that member representing Masterton. He is out of touch with his own community—allegedly his own community.This Budget does not look after the people whom yesterday the Government said it does because that is the way this Government works. On the night it will say one thing but 2 or 3 days later the truth comes out. And that is what is happening now. Yesterday it was "We are looking after low and middle income earners." when the Government's own figures show that is not the truth. The Government is looking after the people whom it has traditionally looked after the most: those who earn the most. At the same time schools housing and education are suffering in our community. Housing schools and education are suffering in our community. We are struggling to be able to get a full roster of doctors at the 24-hour after-hours surgery at Kenepuru Hospital in my electorate. If we put the $1.7 billion back into the health budget we would not struggle to do that anymore. So the people of that man's alleged electorate and the people of my electorate on the Kāpiti coast would be able to go to the doctor after hours for their children without having to worry whether or not it will be open or staffed properly. That is the alternative that we have got here."