Borrows Chester: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBorrows Chester: General Debate[Sitting date: 15 May 2013. Volume:690;Page:9948. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon CHESTER BORROWS (National—Whanganui): The country is looking forward to the delivery of another Budget tomorrow Bill English’s fifth Budget and I am looking forward to it too. It is going to be a Budget that is built around four principles. Firstly it is about responsibly managing the taxpayer’s dollar. On this side of the House we understand that the Government does not have any money of its own; it takes it from the taxpayer. It is not an endless source and if we are taking too much from taxpayers there is not enough for them to be able to make ends meet. That is why this Government lowered taxes and that is why this Government has been frugal in the way it spends them.The Budget is also about building a more competitive and productive economy. What we know is that over nearly a decade when members opposite were in Government the productive part of this economy did not grow at all. It did not grow a single job. The Budget is about delivering better public services. What that party the Labour Party did when it was in Government was to grow the Public Service so big that it was like a millstone around the neck of the New Zealand taxpayer. We are setting about putting that right.The Budget is about supporting the Christchurch rebuild because as the second-biggest city in this country that has to be a priority. What the parties on that side of the House have never understood is that a Budget is about jobs and growth if it is about nothing else. What they absolutely hate is that in the last quarter unemployment fell by 6.2 percent. They hate it. They absolutely hate it.In my electorate of Whanganui which includes South Taranaki we see firsthand that this country is built on pastoral farming and the Greens hate that. I want to ask the Greens a question and the question is this: how much free education health and welfare would you have in this country without pastoral farming and principally without dairying? The answer is stuff-all. And they do not care. They do not care where it comes from. They believe that farmers involved in dairying are dirty dairyers. They hate all that sort of stuff. They have no recipe whatsoever to replace the income that wewould lose if they had their way. In Taranaki we have got 480000 dairy cows—in the Taranaki province. The contribution—Grant Robertson: Name them.Hon CHESTER BORROWS: Well I will start with Blossom and Elizabeth and I will get to your ones after that. On a single site at Whareroa we produce 2.5 percent of this country’s gross national product. How well do you think this country would do without a site like the Whareroa Fonterra site?Shortly in the next 18 months or so Todd Energy will be drilling 41 more wells around Taranaki and I say “Good on them!”. Todd Energy is building a rig right now to be able to do that. In Taranaki for instance and in Whanganui within my electorate with dairying and oil and gas we add to this country’s growth. We add money into the taxpayers’ coffers because of course those people are paying tax and they are paying royalties on these things. And what does that do? That educates our young people. It keeps people well and healthy so that they can work and Labour and the Greens hate it. We know that they hate it.If God forbid Labour and the Greens gain power in this country what are they going to do? They are going to introduce a capital gains tax. That is one thing they are going to do. They are going to raise personal tax rates. They have said that they are going to raise personal tax rates. The hard-case thing is that one day they believed you are rich in this country and on the top tax rate if you are earning $60000 a year and the very next day with no explanation whatsoever they doubled it and said: “Oh no you’re not rich unless you are earning $130000 a year and we’ll charge you the top tax rate after that.”They are going to increase the carbon tax and through that they are going to make it more expensive to do business. They are going to purchase generating capacity which will lead to higher power prices as well. The other answer they have which they may well do is to print money. God help us if they ever get the opportunity to do that. Then they are going to put up the minimum wage to $15 an hour so on any public holiday any little dairy owner is going to have to earn $52.50 just to make ends meet. It is absolutely dumb and ridiculous. Let us look forward to this Budget to be announced tomorrow. Jobs and growth—that is what it is all about.