Henare Tau: Taxation (Personal Tax Cuts Annual Rates and Remedial Matters) Bill — In Committee Third Reading 
Henare Tau: Taxation (Personal Tax Cuts Annual Rates and Remedial Matters) Bill — In Committee Third Reading 
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Hon TAU HENARE (National) 
: 
 I will tell members who likes this Budget. One person really really likes this Budget and his name will become apparent very soon. 
Dr the Hon Lockwood Smith 
: Phil Goff. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: That is exactly right. Phil Goff loves this Budget and do members know why? It is because of the tax cuts of 12 bucks a week. That is a packet of smokes a week—a packet of 25s. 
Hon Phil Goff 
: That shows your priorities! 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: The holier-than-thou Phil Goff thinks it is terrible that I am talking about smokes but what about the people in South Auckland and the people in west Auckland? The leader of the coven over there talks about people in Otara and she talks about people in west Auckland but she has never ever lived like the people in west Auckland or even South Auckland. I can tell members now that for the brothers and sisters on the streets of South Auckland west Auckland and I might add Wainuiomata 12 bucks or 16 bucks a week— 
Hon Trevor Mallard 
: You’re welcome to visit any time. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: —not a problem; I will—will not cut it. We have gone from chewing gum to a block of cheese. 
Labour members talk about Working for Families and how that was a tax cut. Well it was not a tax cut; it treated good decent hard-working Kiwis as just another welfare recipient. So mum and dad with four kids have to trot off to the Work and Income office every week or so in order to get their benefit. That is what Labour made the people do. There is nothing in this bill that says otherwise. 
I say kia ora to giving a $16-a-week tax cut; it is a start. The Government should be patted on the back for giving back any money that it can to working people in this country. But I tell members that after 9 years all it can give back is 12 bucks or 16 bucks. 
Hon Steve Chadwick 
: Tell us about Working for Families. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: That is the head witch of the coven over there—the leader of the coven. She asks me to talk about Working for Families. Well let us talk about the $690 million - odd that the Government paid for a clapped out railway that does not even run. There are no trains in Rotorua there are no trains in Gisborne and there are no trains up north. Where are the trains? 
Dr the Hon Lockwood Smith 
: There’s one a week. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Oh sorry there is one a week. And the Government says that this is a great taxation bill! The Government bought the little train set—the little Tonka toys; I wonder who the Fat Controller was—and earmarked new embassies in Switzerland and all over the place. Just those two things add up to a billion dollars. 
Hon Member 
: What do we need then? 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Well why does the Government not give it back to the workers? But that is all right because Lynne Pillay comes from a union background the Service and Food Workers Union which is about to steal $200000 off its own members. Why? It is to employ a political organiser to run around the country and talk about the tax cuts that this Government has given. What a rort and what a pack of thieves the Service and Food Workers Union is. 
There is nothing in this bill other than to say: “Oops we are running out of time. Here is 12 bucks. Can you please please on election day vote for the Labour Party?”. And the answer is absolutely not. 
The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Marian Hobbs) 
: Before I call Dr the Hon Lockwood Smith I ask members to do three things. Firstly can we actually start to address Part 1? I have let a general debate go for quite a while. I would like to be addressing Part 1. 
Dr the Hon Lockwood Smith 
: I did that. 
The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Marian Hobbs) 
: Yes I do accept that. Secondly the level of noise is pretty high and could the interjections be on the bill and not on other extraneous things? The debate has gone fairly wide; can we now focus on Part 1. Thank you.