John Key - Question Time exchange on tax

John and Prime Minister Helen Clark go head to head over tax in this volatile Question Time exchange. After the exchange, John said: "Helen Clark has no answers on this issue, as Parliament's question time showed today.

"She had no answer to her own comments to the Labour Party conference in 2000 that: 'Tax cuts are a path to inequality... They are the promises of visionless and intellectually bankrupt people'.

"She had no answers to the fact that Treasury told Michael Cullen in 2003 that: 'This healthy fiscal position presents the Government with scope to cut taxes, increase expenditure, and build up financial assets'.

"And she had no answers to Michael Cullen's comment to a television reporter: '$8.5 billion surplus and still no tax cuts. So? What's the connection between the two? None. Right?'

"Helen Clark and Michael Cullen have failed over eight years to cut taxes, and their claims that they now believe in them are simply not credible.

"They have argued time and again against them - despite all the official advice to the contrary.

"Only now, when they are desperate, are they trying to convince the public that they believe in tax cuts and it was the fault of the officials all along why they didn't earlier.

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[username2150]

how did that wilson get the job?, its like a circus

[username2150]

what a load of crap im glad clark and her cronies have been chucked out

[vilisoni]

7.07 is priceless - helen was a league of her own

[MewHamHead]

So, is this the Joker who completely removed the RNZAF fighter capability by cancelling the purchase of 28 Block 15 F-16 Fighting Falcon fighters and disbanding most of the other units! You lot must be literally mad to do such a thing in this day and age. That speaker is so annoying she has absolutely no authority or respect of the House.

[jakecherub]

Margaret Wilson screaming "Order!" is hilarious. She totally doesn't have control over the House.

[luckyplucky6]

Thankgod that we dont have margaret wilson anymore, she is so biased its ridculous, Lockwood Smith would have made her give a bloody date