Who said anything about paying it off in a decade?
Learn how to read.
From the rest of your post Kippa I can only assume you have no economic background at all.
Here's a basic bit of information to chew on.
Labor themselves have bemoaned the falling rate of tax revenue, they have cited everything under the sun as a reason, terms of trade, the dollar, it goes on.
With a falling tax pool, what's the sensible coarse of action, spend more? It defies logic.
The answer in Labor's case is to raise taxes, who pays for those taxes, you, me the next generation of income earners.
