Dear Friend,

I am seriously concerned about this year's election.

The Green Party have just received fawning media coverage for their newest policy package: a new tax on wealth, higher income taxes, and massive hikes to benefits.

At the very time we need to get New Zealand working, Marama Davidson and the Greens want to make it easier to stay on the dole and hike taxes for those creating the jobs!

If polling doesn't change, these taxes will become reality after the election.

Will you help us block the Green Party from advancing its tax-and-spend agenda?

Currently, the Government can effectively ignore the Greens’ wacky ideas. The Greens are not a full coalition partner like New Zealand First. But recent polls show New Zealand First failing to re-enter Parliament, meaning Jacinda Ardern will have to bring the Green Party into Cabinet to form a new Government. Remember, no party under MMP has ever achieved a Parliamentary majority alone.

In exchange for supporting Labour, the Greens can demand anything they want.

The wealth tax will be a dream for tax lawyers and accountants, but hell for taxpayers. A pensioner who owns a family bach, for example, will get whacked even if they struggle with weekly bills. Every business owner would be required to value their business annually – and most business owners would pay tax even in years they turn a loss!

Meanwhile higher income tax rates of 37% and 42% will discourage entrepreneurs from growing the economy and creating more jobs.

It would be madness to introduce these aggressive and anti-productive policies during a recession, but this will happen if the Greens hold the balance of power.

Friend, the Taxpayers’ Union is one of the only independent voices with a record of holding the Greens and other high-tax, big-spending groups to account. Will you ensure that there is a strong voice for taxpayers this election campaign?

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With your support, we can expose the silliness of this Green Party policy and others between now and voting day.

Thank you for making our work possible.

Jordan Williams Executive Director New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union