Green With Envy Taxes Won’t Grow The Economy
by ACT New Zealand · SCOOP21 June 2026
The Green’s leaked tax policy has let out their evil, Hunger Games vision of the future.
Their message boils down to ‘your problems are caused by someone else’s success, but if you vote for us we’ll take it off them and give it to you.’
“Instead of creating the condition for even more wealth, the Green vision is taking from those who’ve succeeded already. They’ve (accidentally) released this bombshell at the exact time Australians are looking to New Zealand as a positive place to invest," says ACT Leader David Seymour.
“The green vision is dismal. It tells people the problem with New Zealand is that you can get wealthy here, but the Greens will fix that. It is a tax policy written by the dark underbelly of our culture, tall poppy syndrome.
“The Green policy is not about getting more money for public services. New Zealand is already an average taxer among developed nations and one of the highest taxers on the Pacific rim, where we compete. It is simply an appeal to the worst human instincts, greed, envy, resentment, wrapped up in trendy graphics by someone who almost certainly wears a nose ring.
“Most New Zealanders’ greatest motivation in life is their children. They are comforted knowing that, if they have something left at the time of their death, it will go to their children and grandchildren’s future. Now, Chloe Swarbrick and Marama Davidson will be looming over the deathbed.
“Not even death is sacred under the Greens plan, with a proposed tax on death. The Beatles may have been joking when they sung ‘now my advice for those who die/declare the pennies on your eyes,’ but the Greens are serious.
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“There is another way. Our country needs more wealth, more successful companies, more millionaires and more billionaires. For every billion-dollar company built on blood, sweat, tears and imagination, there are jobs, opportunity, and the inspiration that some Kiwi, somewhere, can build the next one.
“For every small business that takes a chance, employes another person, and serves more customers, there is risk. People who use the mortgage on the home where their children sleep to employ others don’t deserve to be whacked even harder by the taxman. If Government takes more when their risk taking succeeds, fewer people will take the risk. We will all be poorer, thanks to this Hunger Games policy."
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