Ms. Ablonczy referred to the $33 billion going to infrastructure. I would suggest making sure that money goes to infrastructure. When you have it levered over P3s, we're paying more. As taxpayers, we are paying more for the privilege of having the private sector lever that money for us.
Also, the period of time over which the $33 billion is being spent is a much longer time horizon than that of the $22 billion we've dumped into debt reduction over the last two years.
And that was my point number three: infrastructure. You've made an important start in this past budget to address infrastructure issues, but you're doing it cheek by jowl with having the sale of public assets on your agenda, which is mind-boggling. That's point number one.
Number two is the tax-back option for every dollar we get back in debt charges. Don't give me my money back as a debt charge; please reinvest it. This is a crazy way to guarantee citizens anything. This is a revenue-neutral option for you that actually puts money where it belongs, in the bricks and mortar that build this country.