Steven Joyce has a good sense of humour.
We know that because when he said his first Budget would not be a lolly scramble and would not be designed for the election he was clearly kidding.
He was kidding to the tune of $6 billion over four years.
That is how much the centrepiece of the Budget, the family incomes package, will be paid out, mainly to workers, over the next four years.
Even the low-income single people whose independent earner tax credit has been cut will have that made up by tax relief in the raising of tax thresholds.