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Ryan Bridge: Labour's fallen for Nicola's election trap · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Labour's fallen into a cunning weed trap that Nikola Willis
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  Speaker 1: set a few weeks ago. She laid the bait releasing
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  Speaker 1: their fiscal rules that the party would abide by if
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  Speaker 1: re elected, and challenged Labour to basically you do the same.
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  Speaker 1: On the weekend, Chippy and Barb took the bait and
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  Speaker 1: released their own fiscal strategy. The problem for Labour is
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  Speaker 1: that its strategy reveals that it wants to do exactly
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  Speaker 1: the things National has been saying they want to do. Tax, borrow,
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  Speaker 1: and spend more. There is a gap between what they
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  Speaker 1: say they're willing to spend and what they have announced
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  Speaker 1: that they will tax. There are billions of dollars they
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  Speaker 1: want to spend that they haven't yet explained how they
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  Speaker 1: will tax. As we've spoken about on the show and
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  Speaker 1: asked about on the show many times. The interest deductibility
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  Speaker 1: on rental properties is likely to wear its head again
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  Speaker 1: for Labor, but even that wouldn't be enough to cover
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  Speaker 1: their plans, which plays International's attax and the entire basis
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  Speaker 1: of their campaign, which is that you can't trust Labor
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  Speaker 1: not to tax the Jesus out of you and leave
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  Speaker 1: you broke in an election campaign unanswered questions. The void
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  Speaker 1: is filled by noise. To be in control of a campaign,
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  Speaker 1: you want to be making sure that the noise is
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  Speaker 1: made by you and not for you by others. To
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  Speaker 1: make matters worse, Labour says they won't release their fiscal
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  Speaker 1: plan different from strategy, which is more detailed and fills
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  Speaker 1: in the blanks till the prefeud the economic update before
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  Speaker 1: the election, that's a month away, until they frontles some answers.
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  Speaker 1: You can't help but look at this as a successful
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  Speaker 1: election bait set trap from Nikola Willis. For more from
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