Who in their right mind would vote for either of the major parties in the coming election?
Rural folk should lodge a protest vote this year because both National and Labour are only interested in taxing them in order to bribe left-leaning city dwellers. In the wake of Phil Goff's call to squeeze $800 million out of farmers to fatten the wallets of researchers, it is evident that both parties are competing to see who can carve the most meat off the golden goose without completely killing it.
Goff wants to fleece farmers, based on the increasingly shaky theory that industrial and agricultural production of water vapour, carbon dioxide and methane has more effect on global temperature than the sun and volcanic activity.
Why would anybody in this country want to be successful and earn a profit with the vultures in the beehive ready to make a meal off the backs of their success?
Schemes like the ETS are just 'more” theft (ie another tax) under a new name.
It's time the government stopped picking on farmers and the productive.
Graham Clark, Lower Kaimai.