Goldsmith PaulHon PAUL GOLDSMITH (National): Thank you Mr Speaker. Well I think it would be fair to describe this Government's economic plan as more spending more debt and more tax. We've already seen that this is a Government that loves tax. Tax is love according to the Greens. Yesterday we quoted the Dance Exponents when we said you can't get—but no actually I think more appropriate is Supergroove: Can't get enough". They can't get enough of love and they can't get enough of tax and they will keep going until they've got everything that they need to keep spending and to keep piling on the debt.Hon Member: Come on—get out of the 90s.Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH: So we heard today in the House that this Government's increase in debt this year—SPEAKER: Order! Too modern.Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH: —from 21 percent of GDP to 39 percent is an extra $55 billion or $1.25 billion a week. Now if we think about that that's the equivalent of the annual budget of Pharmac which is a billion dollars a year. All the cancer drugs to keep us alive and all the drugs that we spend to keep New Zealanders healthy—a billion dollars a year. We've been borrowing that at the rate of—every five days we've been borrowing that money to keep things ticking over. Everybody knows that somewhere someone has got to pay it back.We acknowledge that at a time like this a difficult time when many people are losing their jobs when people are under pressures when families are under pressure the Government needs to spend more and it needs to borrow more. But you've got to do it carefully and what you spend it on counts and you really have to focus on growing the economy. So we're going to be talking about three things in this election: about jobs where they come from; we're going to be talking about taxes and debt; and we're going to be talking about infrastructure.If I start off with jobs—where do they come from? Where are we going to find the new jobs to fill? Hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders are losing their jobs right here right now and how do we create the jobs to get them back? Well the Government's got an answer which is to borrow more money and buy the jobs. There's $1.1 billion to go and plant possums—no not plant possums; plant flax bushes and shoot possums—shoot possums plant flax bushes make pools and do funny things around the place. Well that's all good. It's good for the Government to invest but much more important is for private sector investment to drive jobs in this country and we trust the tens of thousands of New Zealand business owners large and small to make the decisions to invest and hire a person expand their business build their businesses and create opportunities.Today we've announced that we're going to help them. So if you lose your job and you're made redundant we'll give you the money the tax that you'd be paying on your redundancy as a tax credit when you start your new business to get a chance. That will give many New Zealanders who have lost their jobs the opportunity to get started. Then we'll enable them to get into their KiwiSaver. Now I've heard a lot of complaints from some of the KiwiSaver providers. There was a chap called Rupert who wasn't at all happy about it. You're not surprised that the KiwiSaver providers want everybody to keep their money with them but we recognise that we're living in extraordinary times. It's a jobs emergency and we need to be flexible in this critical period and be prepared to allow New Zealanders to get access to that money to start new businesses if they have lost their jobs. We think that's a sensible approach.Now the Prime Minister sneered at question time and said we shouldn't be letting people gamble with their money by starting a new business. Well if that's their approach to entrepreneurship in this country we haven't got a hope. The National Party backs New Zealanders to be able to make the judgments about what risk they want to take. If they want to leave their money in KiwiSaver in a conservative account that's fine. But if they want to take a chance and use that money to start a business when they've lost their jobs we'll back them to do it.Then on tax and debt—well we've seen the debt. What we haven't seen from this Government apart from the Greens—and we can thank the Greens for being honest about their tax policy which is a rapacious tax policy: if you've got it we want it. They'll be going to the country saying "Don't you worry. Vote for us and we'll make somebody else pay some more tax." But the problem with that argument—and this is what all New Zealanders should be remembering: any Government that can't control its spending eventually will come after you and they'll be coming after you—SPEAKER: Order!Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH: They'll be coming after the ordinary hard-working New Zealanders who are trying to get ahead and who need that extra money to keep in their pockets in order to feed their families and create their opportunities.The final area is around infrastructure. We've heard all the wonderful promises from this Government about light rail how the Prime Minister stood there and said we're going to have a rapid transit to the airport. Then they weren't quite sure. It was actually going to be a slow tram down Dominion Road. In three years they did nothing else. They cancelled all the other projects because Julie Anne Genter won't give in to the car fascists Phil Twyford thinks we're over-invested in roads and Shane Jones only believes in roads that are in Northland."