Returning to one of the themes that I heard, and what I thought was a pretty unsatisfactory debate that we had in the legislation to give effect to the cost of living payment, there were claims by the Opposition that New Zealand is a highly taxed country. I dragged out the OECD stats on that over the weekend. There are 38 countries in the OECD. Tax as a proportion of the economy: New Zealand is 24th out of 38. So there are 23 countries who are more highly taxed than New Zealand, out of those 38. We are in the lower half of developed countries. In respect of the most recent OECD reports on New Zealand's taxes, 32.2 percent of GDP is their most recent report, and, in comparison, the taxes as a proportion of GDP were 31.6 percent of GDP under National in 2012, after the GFC. 