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Ryan Bridge: Should National campaign on a partial float? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: A couple of predictions for you this morning at twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight minutes after five one, the National Party will campaign
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  Speaker 1: on a partial float of Kiwi Bank at the next election.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's looking and sounding more and more like
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  Speaker 1: they will. The question is whether voters will care. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think so. Asset sales are not the great electoral
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  Speaker 1: disaster that they were once portrayed. As asked John Key,
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  Speaker 1: who whipped Phil Goff's butt in twenty eleven on a
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  Speaker 1: platform of partially privatizing assets. It was a devastating loss
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  Speaker 1: for Phil Goff and the Labor Party. Key, we savor
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  Speaker 1: another prediction for you this morning. We will pay and
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  Speaker 1: our employers will pay. I think twelve percent before long.
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  Speaker 1: It's currently eight percent for a piece. That will increase too,
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  Speaker 1: and the need for it to increase is just look
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  Speaker 1: across the Tasman where they have four trillion dollars in
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  Speaker 1: retirement funds. Our Key, we saver balances collectively just over
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  Speaker 1: a billion. It's David and Goliath, so we need to
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  Speaker 1: save more. And if we're serious about the Key taking
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  Speaker 1: on the Aussies, they need more cash too. For more
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