"There should be minimum tax on citizens, and one of the things we're going to do to try and stimulate the economy is to give people back money."
One of those strategies was to take the 30 per cent tax rate and drop it to 17.5 per cent.
Smith said they were also going to cut out a lot of inefficiency and bureaucracy that had occurred under the current government.
MP and dairy farmer Mark Cameron said he had been talking to farmers about the plethora of change being slated against farmers and rural communities.
He talked about a members' bill on central government's powers over fresh water.
He said as a farmer he was acutely aware of such things as regional activity, localised rainfall, soil aggregate and other issues that concerned farmers.
"There's this real belief in Wellington that they can create a dictative and directive about how we operate when it comes to sedimentation and anything that deals with freshwater.
"Most of what happens at a localised level is understood by those that do it. By councils, stakeholders and by farmers. This is an ongoing concern for the rural sector which the Government simply doesn't understand."
He said he had talked to a lot of people up and down the country who were concerned about local schools and facilities like golf clubs disappearing because of forestation.
"We want to have these conversations that we're not having.
"We've got to get the bureaucracy and dictate out of central government and have conversations with our farmers in rural communities because they're the ones that understand their environment best."
Seymour said Act had an agenda to give the esteemed "what was called the backbone of the New Zealand economy some respect and understanding."
Issues like cleaner water and climate action were important to those in the rural sector.
"It's the dictatorial one-size-fits-all nature of policy coming out of Wellington in my view that have got people angry."
Seymour criticised the apparent lack of a plan once it was clear that Covid was no longer an issue.
"You can't go on locking down, locking out, printing and borrowing money. You've got to have a plan to get back to normal."
When asked a question about petitions and whether the Government took notice, Seymour said petitions, which he called campaigns, didn't really have an enormous effect.
He said that if 20,000 people signed a petition, that was basically one per cent of the vote.
"What does have an effect is that sometimes those campaigns can snowball and lead to something that does affect them."
He cited the example of the Groundswell campaign which saw a parade of vehicles protesting against regulations along High Street in Dannevirke on July 16, as well as communities up and down the country.
"The most important thing about the protest (was that) it was so respectful and orderly," he said of the Auckland protest.
"Compare that with what happened a few weeks earlier when the gangs decided to have a funeral."
Seymour said the Groundswell campaign gained momentum because they were signing people up.
"Does a petition make Jacinda Ardern think about changing her policies? No.
"Do campaigns that then call people to action to do further things to display how they feel and then get other groups such as tradies … to support their sentiment? You betcha."
When asked about his strategy, Seymour said the challenge was to put up positive, practical solutions to promote prosperity.
Act would also need to combat the Prime Minister's popularity, especially in terms of young voters who didn't look at her policies.
"It's very hard to engage with someone who doesn't want to engage," Seymour said.
"But they will engage when things don't look so good."