Simpson ScottHon SCOTT SIMPSON (National—Coromandel): Well thank you Mr Speaker. We've just heard a socialist trying to dance on the head of a pin to justify taking away more tax money from hard-working New Zealanders to redistribute to other taxpayers in a way that only socialists can actually justify in their own heads. This has been a Budget that finds us in this urgency debate debating a piece of legislation that is to establish the mechanism for further taxation of hard-working New Zealanders under the most highly inflationary times that we have seen in 30 years when the squeezed middle is being squeezed tighter than ever before and when New Zealanders are generally genuinely suffering as a result of the misguided inappropriate and addicted-to-spending Government that the socialist party in Government at the moment represents.New Zealanders will have an opportunity at the next election to put that right and they will because this piece of mechanism to create the administrative model that would allow the Accident Compensation Corporation—can you believe it? The hint that this piece of legislation is not needed is in the name of the agency that they want to amend to allow them to do it. It's called the Accident Compensation Commission". It was set up to provide support for people who have accidents not as a mechanism for taxing people more than they already are. We've had this ridiculous situation of a panicked response by the Government who have realised that they have to do something about the squeezed middle. They have to do something about the cost of living crisis confronting so many New Zealanders. So what they've done is a sticking-plaster solution and they're going to give those people who earn less than $70000 $350 to help pay for a $20 block of cheese or a one-way ticket to Australia or some other thing. That will be helpful to some people. But if you are on the average income of $70000 and the mechanism that will trigger the taxation resulting from this piece of legislation comes into effect you're going to be a lot worse off to the tune of about $1000 a year not just once but every single year in perpetuity. The question has to be asked: why? Well it's all about a socialist mind-set that says "We know better how you should live your life and how you should have your money spent for you."—that big Government is good and that Wellington knows best and particularly that the Labour Party and the trades hall their close cousins know best how you should live your life and how you should have your money spent for you. And make no mistake about this this is the first step. This piece of legislation being passed under urgency without the scrutiny of a select committee process is the first step along the imposition of this new tax that Labour want to introduce. Well I've got news for the member who has just resumed her seat: she's going to lose that seat at the next election. There is no chance that the good people of Rangitata will re-elect a socialist of her mind-set to represent them in the Parliament of New Zealand. Because the good people of Rangitata know that their hard work and efforts don't need to be or should not be squandered by a Government that is very free with the spending of other people's money very free with the reallocation of other people's income to purposes and causes that they in their weird academic world think is somehow justified right and appropriate. Well a change is coming and it's coming sooner than this Government thinks and we on this side of the House oppose this sneaky Government and their jobs tax. We oppose the sneaky means that they are using under urgency to introduce the mechanism to create their sneaky jobs tax. We will oppose the sneaky jobs tax when it comes into Parliament. And what's more as soon as we get an opportunity a re-elected National-led Government will almost certainly in the first 100 days move to repeal it."