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No matter the question, government is the answer : Comments

By Stephen Cable, published 24/11/2017

It seems that when government workers are in a position to decide, they vote for more government and there is no party more in favour of larger government than the Greens.

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No one could do as badly as cyman mal and the jesters in the village idiot party we are currently enduring.
Posted by mikk, Friday, 24 November 2017 2:18:12 PM
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When I was a boy, most business operated inside owned premises and retained enough operational capital to completely restock shelves. And just paid their taxes in full and without question as that was and remains the patriotic thing to do!

Now tax avoidance is all the go, with folks operating out of leased premises, which is added as a passed on cost! And often with selves or showrooms full of goods literally owned by a lender, where the subsequent debt burden needs to be factored in along with tax and shareholder dividends, into the retail price! And farmers facing ruination by virtue of over investment in leased machinery? Just to minimise tax!

And tax that pays for roads rail education an hospitals they, along with other government services, use and need!

And then we wounder why we have trouble competing with emerging economies, with state own state operated banks charging no interest to tax free state owned instrumentality?

Interestingly, in the morning's news, revelations of a Chinese businessman giving the LNP $40,000.00 as a political donation and Adani apparently obtaining Chinese backing and finance for the biggest in the world, already approved Carmichael mine?

The LNP, would seem to have some interesting backers?

An interesting way to avoid the scrutiny of the foreign investment review board? And or government foreign investment policy? If government is ever the answer? Then this is the wrong government to be meddling or buying up our export commodities!

Which results in lose lose for Aussies. we lose the export income, most if not all tax liabilities and any real control of the resource?

Which ought instead be resumed under provisions of quite blatant breaches of our foreign investment rules!? TBC.
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Saturday, 25 November 2017 10:29:02 AM
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The GFC was created by unregulated, private banking, grown too big to fail! And predatory lending practises?

This couldn't have happened when I was a boy, with enough public sector banks getting a major share of deposits, by virtue of the fact that their interest rate could be relied on and savings accounts were not only fee free but, as term deposits, were tied to compounding interest!

And as a consequence the CBA became the biggest bank in Australasia?

And just before it was privatised added some annual 7 billions or thereabouts, to consolidated revenue. As did the government owned Telco.

Not withstanding, the government per se, owns nothing, just allegedly represents the taxpayers interests?

None of who need to be consulted via a simple preelction flagging of intention, that is seems was never ever forthcoming?

Now we have the very same conservatives, braying about the cost of social welfare, that was by and large fully funded by state owned infrastructure the welfare recipients, paid for!

Finally and in conclusion. Co-ops were the only private enterprise business model that mostly survived the great depression largely intact. And only because they were and remain the most efficient, private enterprise, self employment, model still operating and never ever known to have grown to big to fail!

And dismantled by activist conservatives, wherever possible, to conform to a preferred, idiotical, ideological imperative!
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Saturday, 25 November 2017 10:56:43 AM
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Milk

Agreed, but what we don't know is, what evil these court jesters are up to, with the treasury key in their possession.

We are but an audience to be entertained. We are but the audience to the "great show of magic". Hypnotised by crude devices of propaganda, into believing, just for the moment, while comfortably seated in front of the mystical stage, where lights dazzle the eyes, and sounds numb our senses, that what we think actually matters.

We are irrelevant to the main act Mikk.

But another hung parliament for Qld. How we could have saved millions of poor taxpayer dollars, by eliminating elections, to arrive at the same end? How dare they!

As we did learn from so many squeaky wheels during the ssm plebiscite, we all know what people want, why waste taxpayer dollars on Democratic nonsense like elections!
Posted by diver dan, Sunday, 26 November 2017 9:07:57 AM
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Jawhol Herr Diver.

Ve don't like free und fair elections und or homosexuals. Und ve think that ze first must be cancelled Permantly und or for the next 1,000 years! Und ze queers zent to ze gas chambers as a final solution in keeping with you personal likes und frequently esposed dislikes.

EXTERMINATE, EXTERMINATE, EXTERMINATE!

How dare zey demand ze same rights as ze normal folk like us und elections ve chust don need ezer!

Comply or elze! Ve haf vays of making ju enchoy yourzelf!

Seig heil Herr Diver.

Be kind to you fine feathered friends,
cause a duck maybe somebody's mother?
Be kind and they'll thrill you through and through!

The Irish have a saying. Don't take life to seriously, after all, none of us get out of it alive!

Y'll have a nice day now y'hear.
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Sunday, 26 November 2017 9:43:04 AM
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Allan,

Well, the Irish would not take you seriously; neither would anyone else.
Posted by ttbn, Sunday, 26 November 2017 9:46:45 AM
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