The Minister of Finance can rant and rave but none of it will hide the skid marks from the massive U-turn that was executed at lunchtime. None of it will hide the stain of distrust that will remain in this Government, because New Zealanders know that they tried to sneak through a new tax, because first—that's right—they came for New Zealanders' back pockets; the inflation, the robber that it is, eating holes in those back pockets, forcing New Zealanders to pay more tax, but they weren't satisfied with that. Then they came for New Zealanders' petrol; they added a tax to that. Then they came for their utes, and they added a tax to that. But such was the insatiable appetite for yet more wasteful spending that they came after your savings too. This is a Government, bear in mind, that campaigned on no new taxes, but, in reality, the Minister of Revenue has a special unit of bureaucrats burrowing away right now in the Piketty unit, dreaming up yet new ways to fleece New Zealanders.