Hon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE (National): I was fascinated at comments made by the Minister in the chair, David Parker, in his response to my colleague Chris Penk. I'm paraphrasing, but it's close: he said that these changes were not likely to put pressure on the economy because the people who are benefiting from these changes are likely to be spending them on the essentials, on the basics. It conjures up some idea that people on higher incomes are somehow dashing to their gilt merchants and their sharebrokers, if indeed we were to give them some kind of tax break. Right? Well, I've got news for the Minister. They used to be supporters of the Labour Party. They used to be the union members of the teachers and the nurses and the police. They are middle-income New Zealanders, and they're getting nothing from this Government, certainly not from this Budget. In a previous rebuttal to Mr Brownlee, he also implied—rather, to Mr Bridges, and Mr Brownlee—in refuting his tabled amendment to change the tax threshold changes, that he basically admitted that a Labour Government would never adjust the tax threshold changes because I would benefit from it as an upper-income earner. That is the level of jealousy that we see from this Government. They can't possibly help somebody in the middle-income bracket—say, from $48,000 to $70,000.