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How to disembowel an economy : Comments

By Alex Cowie, published 24/5/2010

The main problem with the super-profits tax is it has introduced an enormous cloud of uncertainty over Australian resource projects.

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Alex, when I was reading your article I suddenly thought of the movie: 'The crying of the Lambs.' Of course, in this instance it would be better called: 'The Howling of the Wolves.'

Alex, we live in a world driven by greed, not only corporate greed but individual greed which people are urged to consider to be a virtue. The twin disasters of the Global Financial Crisis and Global warming are recent achievements of capitalism and corporatism and those who worship greed. In fact, raping and pillaging is what corporations do best usually without regard for the environment or the world's people.

Hopefully, capitalism will crash soon and the rich will be reduced to being the same as the rest of us. Then we might be able to set up a civilization that doesn't serve corporations and their shareholders but is there for the benefit of all the world's people!

And people might live lives that don't revolve around greed, but around values like caring, compassion, honesty, altruism, etc.
Posted by David G, Monday, 24 May 2010 9:44:20 AM
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David,
I am totally in agreement with you. The sooner TSHTF and corporations become a thing of the past, the better.
Roll on nationalization of all of our assets especial natural gas.
Posted by sarnian, Monday, 24 May 2010 10:24:16 AM
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I fully concur with the first two replies. Corporate greed is rapidly destroying the planet and making it uninhabitable for those who really care about it. Just look what's happening with the Alberta tar sands and the rain forests of Indonesia.

I too hope desperately that capitalism will be quickly brought to it's knees. The fact that one or two percent of the entire human population holds all the wealth which rightly belongs to everybody is patently wrong! I just hope I live long enough to see a brave new world emerge and I really believe I will. It's just around the corner.

Of course the fat pigs of the mining empire will squawk and squeal. It's their job to tear as much money away from this country as possible and hand it out to greedy shareholders, some of whom get very little for their gambling ways. I wouldn't mind so much if those companies were wholly owned by Australia, but most are simply nothing more than tentacles of overseas interests plundering our wealth. If they pack up their bats and balls and won't play any longer.......good radiance to them I say!
Posted by Aime, Monday, 24 May 2010 10:40:32 AM
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I think that the companies that are saying they will not go ahead with their projects in Australia because of the 40% tax and will go “offshore” should be allowed to go and then the mining leases terminated and reallocated to companies that are willing to operate here and pay whatever tax is levied.
Posted by sarnian, Monday, 24 May 2010 11:03:57 AM
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The main greed being shown here is by a Government who can't stop spending and wasting billions on failed projects and increasing the pool of fat cats who receive more and more perks.They now want to tax hard working people more and more. It is a disgrace.
Posted by runner, Monday, 24 May 2010 12:14:05 PM
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The red/green/getup/labour coalition have done more to widen the gap between rich and poor in this country than any other group.

Little history lesson for you, the Whitlam government simultaneously increased the value of the Aussie dollar, thereby killing off our export industries, then began removing the tariff barriers, thereby killing off, our manufacturing industries or radically increasing imports & decreasing exports.

Result, a progressively worsening current account deficit. Or how to bankrupt a nation 101? Between 1945 & 1972 the economy was dominated by small & medium sized businesses or Mr Big Enough's who were predominantly Australian citizen's, living permanently in Australia.

Whereas now, as a direct result of red/green/getup/labour coalition policies to sell off the farm, mine, house, ports, rail, everything whether nailed down or not, our economy is now, dominated by big business, banks, unions, bureaucrookracy, etc, etc, etc.

George Orwells "1984" nightmare has come true, except that its "Big Sista" looking over your shoulder & who needs the "jack booted riot squad" when the spin doctors from the "politically correct", "Ministry of information" have been doing such a good job on the sheeple.

The only thing our economy has had going for it is the mining boom & the red/green/getup/labour coalition even want to kill that.

Is this another example of Communists deliberately sabotaging our economy?

http://www.australiafirstparty.com.au/cms/

http://www.ldp.org.au/
Posted by Formersnag, Monday, 24 May 2010 12:44:10 PM
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