Thank you, Chair; thank you, presenters.
I wanted to engage Mr. Weiner and Mr. Dancey in a bit of a conversation here. Mr. Dancey, you're a cut the taxes and reduce the debt kind of guy, and Mr. Weiner, in your proposal you say:
Furthermore, we challenge proponents of tax and debt reduction to demonstrate, even in strictly economic terms, that their proposals would produce over the long term a rate of return that would even remotely approach what would be gained by investing in programs geared to prevention.
The argument is put forward in the body of your paper to the effect that investments in education will in fact increase the GDP by 4% to 7% per capita.
So what's your answer to Mr. Weiner's challenge, Mr. Dancey?