National believes that the tax burden on New Zealanders should be reduced. This is particularly the case during what have been tough economic times, and we see a real missed opportunity here not to adjust these thresholds. What we see over time is that this gets worse and worse cumulatively, so that in fact what we see when we don't have bracket adjustment—when we don't have these adjustments—is that over time the Crown is taking more of what people earn, and we think that that is the wrong direction of travel. Where possible, the Crown should be working as hard as New Zealanders are to get more impact out of every dollar to ensure that it is doing more with the tax dollars it gets this year than it got with the tax dollars it got last year. We know that that's what New Zealanders are doing. We know that New Zealanders with their income are always working to get value for that income, and what we don't think is fair is that they get placed in a situation where tax rates take more and more of their income over time. 