This can't be as good as it gets. Imagine if we actually had a better way. Imagine if the objective of this country was to grow its productivity and its wealth by having the best public policy that was the most efficient and was based on and encouraged the best values of the Kiwi spirit instead of putting tall poppy syndrome in the tax code. Imagine if we strove to have low, flat taxes that were efficient to administer, that did not encourage distorted behaviour, that were efficient to comply with, that did not have people running off to their tax accountants and tax lawyers to set up new schemes to avoid paying them, and, most importantly, sent a message that this country values success—this country thinks that if you do all those things we encourage our kids to do and you end up earning more than $180,000, we don't say, "We're going to take it off you."; we say, "Good on you!" That would be the values of a country that I would like to see, not the values of a country that thinks it's OK to beat on a minority so long as they're successful, not a country that rushes through ineffective legislation that makes the tax system more complicated to solve no defined problem. We can do so much better than this, but, sadly, the Labour Party is stuck legislating like it's 1999. What a shame.