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Ryan Bridge: What are our wealthy politicians going to do with their tax cut? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Income tax cuts kicking for us today, ninety four percent
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  Speaker 1: of us will get a few extra bucks. Will it
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  Speaker 1: be swallowed up by your mortgage or your insurance going
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  Speaker 1: up or your rates? Probably? But better we get the
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  Speaker 1: money and decide what to do with it than the politicians. Right. Also,
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  Speaker 1: today MPs gets their first pay rise since twenty seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: and watched closely watch those particularly who shout the loudest
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  Speaker 1: about equality and fairness and justice and all those good things.
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  Speaker 1: Do they put their money where their mouth is? Today?
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  Speaker 1: Chris Luxen for his sins, and I assume it's to
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  Speaker 1: stave off the inevitable media storm about he's raightch He's right,
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  Speaker 1: He's got seven houses. He has promised to donate his
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  Speaker 1: full tax cut twenty bucks a week to charity. Also
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  Speaker 1: the increase in his pay to charity Hipkins. What's happening
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  Speaker 1: over at labor HQ. Well, Labor has apparently emailed their
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  Speaker 1: supporters asking for the tax cut to be donated. It
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  Speaker 1: sounds good not to women's refuge or kids can but
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  Speaker 1: to labor. Yes, take your tax cut and give it
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  Speaker 1: to labor to quote, really help create the better future
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  Speaker 1: alter our needs? Shameless and what about the Greens. Where
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  Speaker 1: do they stand on this? What gesture are they making?
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  Speaker 1: By their own estimates, they are the wealthy elite. Many
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  Speaker 1: of them own homes. They are on salaries of more
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  Speaker 1: than one hundred and seventy thousand bucks a year. They're
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  Speaker 1: getting a close to three percent pay rise backdated to
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  Speaker 1: last October, I might add, and Chloe Swarbrick, as the
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  Speaker 1: co leader, will now get a nice bump to her
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  Speaker 1: salary for that too. She'll be on well over two
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  Speaker 1: hundred k. Where are the pledges to donate, Madam and
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  Speaker 1: Chloe itel? Where are they? These tax cuts, according to
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  Speaker 1: you guys, are cruel and dangerous and a national disgrace.
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  Speaker 1: They benefit the wealthy elites. So the question is what
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  Speaker 1: are you wealthy elites, by your own definition, going to
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