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The Opportunity Party’s climate change policy is ideological, unaffordable and totally unnecessary nonsense, Federated Farmers claims.
“The Opportunity Party has now exposed themselves as an extreme left-wing, anti-farming party,” says Federated Farmers climate spokesperson Richard Dawkins.
“First, they proposed a totally unworkable and unaffordable land tax on rural New Zealand that would strip $700 million dollars a year out of farmers’ back pockets, now they’re talking about a climate tax for farmers and unscientific methane reduction targets that go further than even Jacinda Ardern and James Shaw dared to go.”
While National, New Zealand First, ACT and Labour have sensible climate policies and have ruled out campaigning on a climate tax for farmers, TOP is not following suit, he adds.
“They’re the only ones proposing these kinds of La-La Land climate policies and they’re totally out of step with New Zealand.
“These kinds of ideological, idealistic and unaffordable policies are precisely why the Opportunity Party should be allowed nowhere near the Beehive.”
