Luxon ChristopherGENERAL DEBATECHRISTOPHER LUXON (Leader of the Opposition): I move That the House take note of miscellaneous business. SPEAKER: I call the honourable—Christopher Luxon.CHRISTOPHER LUXON: Honourable—I like the sound of that Mr Speaker. Yeah.You might have heard that I am a big fan of LunchMoney Lewis. I know his song Bills" and his song "Bills" is speaking to New Zealanders up and down this country right now. I promise you Mr Speaker—and I also promise Mr LunchMoney—that I won't sing the song again because it wasn't the strongest rendition; I'll say that. But you know when he says "I got bills I gotta pay. I got mouths I gotta feed. I'm going to work work work every day" Kiwis up and down this country really know what he's talking about. He is speaking to them. But sadly this is a Government that is not speaking to them or not understanding where they're at at all. Because if they had been thinking about them they wouldn't have introduced a KiwiSaver tax last night and then they wouldn't have withdrawn it this morning—as LunchMoney would say he would love anything that's gone by lunchtime so well done.Here's the deal: we have a Government that is so honestly the political equivalent of The Office we only have to look at the last 24 hours to imagine what shenanigans have gone on behind the scenes to get to this fantastic decision today. It has demonstrated yet again that it is so completely utterly out of touch with everyday working New Zealanders and where they're at and it's just stopped listening to them.Last night I had this great Facebook comment from Jessica from Rotorua and she said "When does it end with the tax? No wonder the working middle class can't get ahead." And today what happened? Jessica and many Kiwis like her they woke up and they worked out the Government's busy trying to fleece them out of their hard-earned cash yet again. And she's right because you know think about it: we've had a car tax we've got a fuel tax we've got a jobs tax we've got a tenant tax and now we've got this KiwiSaver tax that was on/off on/off now off again and everyday Kiwis just can't get ahead. Let me tell you what they're going to keep doing: they're going to keep dreaming up cunning new taxes. Because you can just see David Parker talking to Grant Robertson saying "I've got a new cunning plan. So cunning you can put a tail on it and call it a weasel." You can see it. You can just imagine the conversation as they beaver away at lots of new ideas about how they can get even more taxes. And the bottom line is they have to do that right? They have to do it because they're so addicted to spending. They love their spending and they've spent so much and yet they've also achieved so very very little. I think they've developed a very perverse and unique skill: this Government is uniquely able to spend more money—in fact $51 billion more than five years ago—and at the same time hire more people—14000 more bureaucrats here in central Wellington—and at the same time they've got worse outcomes in every single portfolio across the House. I think we'll just go through a few. I could go through all of them but let's just take a few. I think the economy's a good place to start because Grant Robertson's here; he stayed around. We've got to give him credit for that; it's fantastic. But you've just got to look at his delivery of the cost of living payment over the last 24 hours. That mismanagement just sums up the mismanagement of our economy. And you've got to remember first and foremost it isn't his money this cost of living payment that he's designed. He's got such disdain for taxpayers' money that he actually makes this scheme up on the fly under political pressure against the advice of officials and then he sprays the cash around to French backpackers and investment bankers in London and even dead people—yeah—and prisoners I think as well. The Auditor-General then slaps him down very publicly like we've never seen before saying "Hey listen not a good use of public money." And you think: can't you just apologise to the New Zealand people and say "Maybe I kind of got that one wrong really sorry about that."? Maybe you could tell us how many ineligible people actually got it—would be quite useful. I've got to tell you it wouldn't have happened under Nicola Willis' watch. But that's what it is. Let's look at health. Shall we look at health? That's another good one because every single health outcome has gone backwards under this Government—every single one. People are now spending entire days waiting for the emergency department just to see somebody. The numbers of people waiting for surgical weight loss have actually doubled. You've gone from 1000 to 36000 Kiwis waiting more than four months to see their first specialists. And we're actually now short 4000 nurses 1500 GPs 1500 specialists. It's amazing! These guys cannot deliver any outcomes whatsoever. And their answer is: Wellington knows best let's build bureaucracy let's not invest in the front-line services—let's build more bureaucracy. What we need is a real doctor running health not a spin doctor. So I could go on and I would love to go on but what I will say to you is that we fundamentally now have a Government where—we know the drill—they are spending so much money so they need to keep working away and beavering away and coming up with cunning new taxes because they're so addicted to spending. They'll talk about openness and transparency but they don't deliver it. Here we see a massive chronic U-turn from this Government around a KiwiSaver tax and long may the U-turns keep coming because there's a lot more taxes to unwind from here."