Jacinda is telling us to rock the boat and vote Labour. Why would we when she and her party refuses to give us the figures for their new water taxes, capital gains taxes and the higher income taxes some are going to have to pay. Then there is the Carbon Emission Taxes her coalition party The Greens want to add. From experience we know that businesses always pass on any additional costs incurred to the consumer –that is you and me, the users of their products, who end up paying more.

We are being told of all the numerous increased benefits she and her coalition partner are going to hand out. Statistics show us that welfare dependency often becomes a generational problem and with that comes all sorts of problematic social issues.

Since Bill English has been head of National he has put in place a number of wrap-around support systems that, from a very early age, are going to help young people be better supported to get through the difficulties in life and hopefully grow up better educated, decent people. It takes a robust economy to fund these programmes so why risk what we have already got. National's tax cuts are a reward for every hard-working person who has contributed to one of the best rated economies in the world.

M Hills, Hairini.