Willis NicolaNICOLA WILLIS (Deputy Leader—National): He'll have to do a lot better than that because the country's going backwards at a rate of knots and all the Minister of Finance wants to do is platform the rantings of a crazy pastor who no one wants to engage with. Why does he want to do that? Because this is Labour's day of shame—this is their day of shame. Look at them over there: shame-faced caught red-handed with their hands in New Zealanders' KiwiSaver accounts. Look at them averting their eyes lowering their heads—oh Napoleon" is looking—because they are ashamed of what their finance Minister tried to do. He in concert with the Minister of Revenue thought "You know what? I'm addicted to spending. I can't make the books balance anymore so where am I going to get the cash? I've run out of my own money so I'm going to go after New Zealanders' KiwiSaver." And what they did: they cooked up a tax they put it through the Cabinet they agreed to it and they thought "You know what? Let's sneak it through. We don't need to tell anyone we're doing it." So they put out the press release but did they talk about the extra tax? Did they talk about the $225 million they wanted to take? Did they talk about the $100 billion they wanted to wipe from New Zealanders' KiwiSaver funds? No because those sneaky members of Parliament thought they could get this one past New Zealanders. They thought they could hoodwink them but we caught them red-handed.The Minister of Finance can rant and rave but none of it will hide the skid marks from the massive U-turn that was executed at lunchtime. None of it will hide the stain of distrust that will remain in this Government because New Zealanders know that they tried to sneak through a new tax. Because first—that's right—they came for New Zealanders' back pockets—the inflation the robber that it is eating holes in those back pockets forcing New Zealanders to pay more tax—but they weren't satisfied with that. Then they came for New Zealanders' petrol: they added a tax to that. Then they came for their utes and they added a tax to that. But such was the insatiable appetite for yet more wasteful spending that they came after your savings too. This is a Government bear in mind that campaigned on "no new taxes" but in reality the Minister of Revenue has a special unit of bureaucrats burrowing away right now in the Piketty unit dreaming up yet new ways to fleece New Zealanders.I will say to you: National will not abide it. We will not let them sneak these taxes through; we will oppose them we will find them out and we will stop this happening. We will not allow a midnight assault on your savings a mounting of the guard.Now if the Minister of Finance thinks that what New Zealanders are talking about is the rantings of a pastor I want to give him this email that was sent to the Prime Minister and it was sent to me as well. This is from a Labour voter; her name's Rachel. She said "I am sick of working hard paying taxes trying to make a safe and secure future for my family just to get constantly slapped in the face by you the Government." That is exactly what this Government is doing.New Zealanders are faced with a cost of living crisis. Their wages have gone backwards in real terms. They have less money to spend on their families today than they did when that Government was elected. And what is this Government doing? Are they trying to increase the growth of this economy? Are they trying to raise incomes? No. This Government is obsessed with more spending. National says that it is time that they learnt their lessons. The Auditor-General agrees with us by the way. The Auditor-General wrote to us and said that this is a Government that has failed the test of good stewardship of public money that they did not show due care in the way they designed and implemented the cost of living payment—payments paid for by Rachel and other hard-working taxpayers that went to French backpackers foreign investors and London backpackers. Will they apologise? Will they even find out how many payments were made and how much money was wasted? No because they have contempt for the New Zealand taxpayers they are supposed to serve. Let's vote them out."