T2T, Thats a great point you raise and that's why why Federal Labor are closing all the tax loopholes like negative gearing on investment housing and tightening up Super rules and CGT and dividend imputations etc so that more Government revenue can be pumped into Education and Health and Infrastructure to provide better services for Australians and give the lower income workers a decent tax cut and restore weekend penalty rates especially for Casual workers who will have more money to spend to stimulate the economy. The goal is to have budget surpluses and pay down the Government debt over the next decade. ScoMo however is living in fantasy land and wants everyone to believe he can deliver massive tax cuts to high income workers, increase infrastructure spending ( albeit over 10 years ) and not cut services whilst delivering 1% budget surpluses year on year for 10 years. No one takes him seriously because even Peter Costello criticised his 10 year costings as fantasy to believe the Australian public will elect them 4 more times over the next 10 years!