Hon TODD McCLAY (National—Rotorua): Mr Chair, thank you very much. I was thinking that there would not be a reason to speak in this debate, because members would see common sense, but I couldn't help it, having listened to the anaemic speech of the last member, Dr Deborah Russell, calling from somewhere else in the country. You see, for every single member of the Labour Party, the mantra that they teach them before they become MPs is "There is not a problem that can't be fixed with a new tax." And that's what we've seen over 4½ years. You know, Minister Parker can be quoting other very high tax jurisdictions around the world and patting himself and his colleagues on the back for being better than them, but this is a high-tax Government at a time when Kiwis are doing it hard. What we've seen this week, in a reaction to ongoing pressure from the Opposition, from the National Party, about cost of living, is, finally, the Prime Minister said, "Well, I suppose there's a little, tiny bit of a crisis, and we're going to give a little bit of the extra, extra, extra tax we're getting, because fuel rates have gone up so much, back to you for just three months, and could you be grateful to us, please." That was the message that was delivered to Kiwis.