Vic Harris

we'll give you an energy subsidy or we will, yes, the price of oil has doubled and therefore, you know, your electricity or your power bill or your, you know, we can do things that can help with ease the burden of inflation.

They'll have to step in.

But...

Then you're taking on debt as a country and then that has to be paid back and that's higher taxes down the track.

We're already still dealing with all the COVID payouts that have led to high tax rates.

People lost their jobs.

And so it's like, cool, we'll pay you.

Yeah, and we're like, we'll pay you even though – because you can't go to work.

It's not your fault.

Like, we'll help you.

And then people latch on to one little highlight, which is, you know, and I'm not saying little, but it's like, oh, you know, they're cutting, I don't know, maybe school lunches for children.

It's like a shit option everywhere you go.

And then you get the political side and politicians are like,

oh, the Sophie Hallwright party is cutting this.

It's like, oh no, but what about all the good stuff I'm doing?

It's just been so exhausting.

No, and I think it's also, like, we've been here before.

We'll probably be here again, you know, hopefully not for a few years.

But, like, this stuff, you know, there's always something that's going on in the economy and, like,

Yeah, I think that the best thing is just to make sure that you are diversified and you're not investing, you know, your whole portfolio in oil and gas companies or, you know, all in one country.