Dear Ponde,

<<Why don't we have an honesty system for Income tax as well.>>

Indeed, why not!?

To make it attractive, there should be a choice as to the areas of expenditure into which the tax goes, essentially a long list of default percentages which those who care can move to other items.

Even the most conscientious can find areas in which tax money does good, to replace those areas they do not agree with, thus the savings in ATO personnel will outweigh the loss from dishonest people.

Aidan you would do better generating your cheap energy with something more practical than solar.

Have you thought of getting your mates, the fairies down the bottom of the garden to work a treadmill for you. You'd get more useful power that way, than from fairy floss wind & solar.

Of course we could just use our abundant coal, the same as China do to put our factories out of business. Have you ever thought of that?

Hasbeen, solar has much lower ongoing costs than fossil fuels, and its upfront costs are declining. My state already gets about a third of its power from solar and wind. Yet you choose to flaunt your own ignorance by writing about fairies in a pathetic attempt to ridicule my post.

Use of our abundant coal is so environmentally destructive that it should not even be considered. But from a purely economic standpoint, it wouldn't be cheap enough anyway.

Ah, a South Australian Aidan, one of the states that only exist by bludging on the rest.

You've got the most expensive electricity in the country too, don't you? Bad planning can do that to you.

Sorry old fellow, the global warming scam is just about dead, & by the looks of what the sun is doing right now, you'll be importing a lot more of our coal than you currently do, to help keep you warm fairly soon.

Of course, you fail to mention how much of your expensive electricity is generated by Victorian brown coal. Perhaps you find it convenient to forget that when preaching green garbage.

Hasbeen,
<<Ah, a South Australian Aidan, one of the states that only exist by bludging on the rest>>
The other states only exist because they were reliant on convict labour at one time or another. And since federation, SA's needs have constantly been ignored. For the past two decades interest rates have been set far too high for SA's requirements, and he Federal government's doing very little to compensate.

<<You've got the most expensive electricity in the country too, don't you? Bad planning can do that to you.>>
It was the most expensive in the nation a few years ago, due in part to the urgent need to address thhe supply problemsfrom a bungled orivatization. But thanks to wind and solar the price is falling, and it is no longer the most expensive in Australia (though unfortunately I can't remember which state now is).

<<Sorry old fellow, the global warming scam is just about dead,>>
The only scam is those who are still claiming global warning isn't occurring. Last year was the hottest on record. Could heat stroke be the reason you've been halucinating those fairies?

<<& by the looks of what the sun is doing right now, you'll be importing a lot more of our coal than you currently do, to help keep you warm fairly soon.>>
I don't know what the sun's doing where you are, but over here it's shining. And few people need their houses heated at this time of year.

<<Of course, you fail to mention how much of your expensive electricity is generated by Victorian brown coal. Perhaps you find it convenient to forget that when preaching green garbage.>>
Thanks to wind and solar, we're a lot less reliant on Victorian brown coal than we used to be (though there's been an even bigger drop in consumption of South Australian brown coal). A decade ago the interstate power flow was nearly all one way: SA consuming electricity generated in Victoria. Now it often goes in the other direction.