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The more I see these government budgets, I can't help but be reminded of the headwinds that are coming towards us.
I think they fundamentally don't understand the SME market.
I get a bit cynical, sceptical, that's probably a better word, because I look at these...
graphs projecting out the future and they always look really perfectly curved and stuff.
But if you look at anything historic, it's, you know, holy sheesh, you know, it is all over the show.
Every day people sort of looking and going, God, things are tough.
Well, I spent a big part of my day yesterday at the budget lockup down at the Beehive, even got the receipts to prove it.
But today we're going to be digging into it and finding out what it may mean for all of us here in New Zealand.
Greg Smith from Generate, the investment specialist.
It is good to see you as always.
Great to be back, Luke.
Thanks for having me along.
You've got a stack of notes there.
And what were some of the key themes that you spotted in this budget when you were going through it with your highlighter there?
I also noticed that there wasn't a lot of chat around growth this time using that word.
But last year, I think the name of the budget was the growth budget or something similar.