Seymour David; Rurawhe AdrianDAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. I want to also thank my colleague Shane Jones and the Labour Party whip Kiritapu Allan who have agreed to split this call so that I might address this very important issue.I have to say as an Aucklander that this is a very sad day. We get to pay and pay and pay for the corporate welfare the so-called regional development funds—$1 billion of our money hosed out all over rural New Zealand. Then when we need our own projects in Auckland where the wealth is generated and where the tax is paid we find that to get any improvement at all we have to pay an additional tax.Hon Phil Twyford: Don't you support user-pays David? I thought you'd support user-pays.DAVID SEYMOUR: In fact that's not particularly surprising in this Parliament because this Government introduces a new tax every single day. Yesterday it was the introduction of a stealth capital gains tax and today it is a targeted petrol tax targeted at Auckland.I heard Phil Twyford—that economic genius on the Government benches—telling me that this is user-pays. Well actually for Aucklanders there's not a lot of use going on—we're just paying. We sit in the congestion and pay and pay to idle because this Government is not committed to building the kind of infrastructure that Auckland needs and deserves and has already paid for.What they want to build—and what we heard from Michael Wood on Mt Roskill—is a tramline up and down Dominion Road which the previous speaker Simeon Brown quite rightly identified as taking an hour to get from the CBD to the airport. And that's the truth. If you're doing 30 kilometres an hour max and it's 20 kilometres to get there and you've got to stop a few times—that's an hour. Unless this tram is going to be different from every other tram in the world it's going to take an hour. Michael Wood the representative from Mt Roskill might want to think a little bit about why trams were removed from Dominion Road in the first place: because the amount of space taken up leads to enormous congestion for his own constituents trying to get into town so that they can work and earn a dollar and pay more tax to his Government. Michael Wood is committing political suicide for Mt Roskill here today. He does not understand the implications—the real implications—for the people of Mt Roskill and it's this: pay more tax to idle sitting in traffic stopped by congestion caused by his Government because the Government says you should be on a tram that's not going where you're going.So this is a sad day for Aucklanders. As if we don't pay enough tax already. Yesterday we get an extra tax on our houses; today we get a tax on our cars. It's a little bit like that old Beatles song: if you try to walk they'll tax your feet; if you try to sit they'll tax the seat.This Government has no answer to any problem other than more and more tax. And it might be OK. If the promise was to complete the Auckland motorway network that has been half built in 60 years then we might say this wouldn't be so bad—if we were actually getting something for it. But we are not getting anything. All we're doing is paying and paying and paying for nothing. It's not user-pays because there's no use; it is just pay. This Government is quite happily taxing us but they won't promise anything new to ease the congestion that we're going to be sitting in while paying the tax—and paying and paying and paying. I've got a message for this Government from the people of Auckland. It is that we actually want results from Government. We actually want to be getting value for money. We don't want to be paying additional taxes for the same level of service. We want better service for the tax we already pay and if this Government could focus on that for just a moment they might be a little bit more popular in Auckland. But after few years of this kind of carry-on they're going to be a lot less popular in Auckland—I can tell them that tonight.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): I call the Hon Shane Jones—five minutes.