Twyford PhilHon PHIL TWYFORD (Labour—Te Atatū): This rather modest or some might say pathetic little bill that's take that's taking up the time of this House chewing through taxpayers' money—as my colleague Duncan Webb pointed out is likely to generate $466000 for the Crown finances in the next financial year. It'll probably cost more money going through this House in urgency than it will generate in the next financial year. It's unnecessary.But I'll say this: this bill actually tells an important part of the story of this Budget. You see this Government is desperately trying to claw back every little bit of revenue that it can get its hands on to shore up its crumbling finances. This bill increases the percentage of fines retained by the Crown when the courts gather fines on behalf of councils.The important bit of the picture for the public to understand is that this Government handed over $2.9 billion in tax breaks to landlords part of a package of $14.7 billion that this Budget gives in tax cuts that will disproportionately benefit the well-off.Now net debt as a result of this will rise over the next four years by $68.3 billion to more than $220 billion. That's $12 billion more than the Treasury forecast last December. Now a member on that side of the House stood up not very long ago and said that the tax cuts are fully funded—the tax cuts are fully funded. Well the only way you can say that the tax cuts are fully funded is that they are fully funded by borrowing—they are fully funded by borrowing. The Government is giving $14.7 billion in tax cuts; they are borrowing an extra $12 billion. They are fully funded by borrowing—that's what they are.So how is the Government trying to make their dodgy numbers add up? Well they are shovelling costs onto Kiwis like there is no tomorrow. They're bringing back the $5 prescription medicines fee. They have slashed the public transport subsidies that provided free public transport for our kids and half price for young people. There are extra road-user charges for electric vehicle users and a 50 percent increase in car rego. They have cancelled First Home Grants. They are scaling back the building of State housing. They have reduced the quality of school lunches and they have increased tuition fees for students in their first year. And now there's no depth too low for this Government to stoop than actually spending the valuable time of this House in urgency clawing back hundreds of thousands of dollars in parking fines.The fact that they didn't campaign on this in the election campaign is misleading. It is dishonest. There was no word of this during the election campaign but it is part of an organised campaign of clawing back revenue from New Zealanders by imposing a raft of new charges.But there's more. All of these extra costs imposed on Kiwis are having an inflationary effect. According to Reserve Bank data fees and charges increased; the inflation for the last quarter was 2 percent—it has doubled since the Labour Government was in office. That is without doubt contributing to inflationary pressures that will keep interest rates higher than they otherwise would have been. And that more than anything—more than the raft of extra charges this Government has imposed on New Zealanders—will hurt hard-pressed families by increasing their mortgage servicing fees. This is a Government that is making bad choices it is breaking promises like there's no tomorrow and New Zealanders won't forget it.