Greens propose more welfare, more tax
The 2025 Green Budget includes the following:
- Increase welfare payments by 26% to young unemployed persons to $395 a week
- Pay $395 a week to students
- A wealth tax
- A death tax
- A tax rate of 39% on income over $120,000 (which with GST will mean you effectively will have half of every dollar over $120,000 going to the government)
- A new top tax rate of 45%
- Increase company tax by 5%
So basically taxing NZ families, dead people and companies more, in order to give more money to people not working.