The LEGISLATED removal of the unproductive profit demanding, money handling, middleman with the compulsory, direct from producer to you selling, would halve the cost of living or doing business!

And the costliest of those fee demanding middlemen are entirely unnecessary state governments!

Who before they provide a single service or amenity, cost the taxpayer 70 billion plus per annum!

Expensive debating clubs!

#2/ Energy! Is there anything cheaper than coal? Yes, there is and comes with a veritable smorgasbord of additional benefits, and that energy is nuclear energy.

No not the nuclear energy of a nuclear bomb! Nor a conventional solid fuel enriched uranium reactor.

But rather mass produced, factory built MSR thorium reactors.

Suggest you read, prize-winning science writer and investigative Journalist, Richard Matin's book, Thorium, Super fuel, subtitled, green energy.

Or professor (ret) economist, Robert Hargreave's book, Thorium, cheaper than coal!

Anyone is free to go back to earlier posts :>)), where I've advocated for energy that the Professor estimates could cost less than 2 cents per KwH.

Energy that cheap coupled to four times as cheap, deionisation dialysis desalination, hold the promise of not only drought proofing this country but also revegetating and reforesting our arid interior. to turn it into a veritable garden of Eden and endless guaranteed food and fibre production.

The key to most of this is popular elsewhere, self-terminating, thirty-year bonds and a brand new people's' bank plus, the returned control of capital to the people who both own and create it!
Alan B

Cutting taxes to increase growth and revenue based on the Laffer Curve didn't work in Reagan's time because the real peak is much further to the right than Laffer assumed it to be. And on the face of it, it would have even less chance of working now, since we're much further to the left of the peak than we were in the 1980s.

However, if there's one thing worse than Reaganomics, it's Hoovernomics (buggering up the economy by trying to balance the budget). Obama failed to stop the Republicans in Congress pursuing Hoovernomics; Trump has succeeded by offering them Reaganomics instead. That will result in growth, though the Fed could still kill it off by putting up interest rates too high (the way the RBA killed off Australia's recovery under Gillard).

Ending our dependence on oil is a sure fire way to reduce M.E. Tensions and stop the revenue generated by it, financing terrorism and the expansionist plans of imperialist Czars, Dictators, Tyrants and entirely unprincipled mendacious disingenuous, run with the hare, hunt with the hound, tinpot potentates.

Simply put, thermal coal was the fuel of a long time ago, long ago, steam age!

And just as reliable as those ancient antiquated boilers that once powered all industry and transport.

The Stanley steamer once held the land speed record and somewhere north of 160 KLMS.

Yet if one wanted to appear ridiculous or brain dead one could advocate that we enter one in the Bathurst 1000?

And against a Fully electric Tesla? With the Tesla cruising over the finish line just as the Stanley was getting up a full head of steam?

With all the smart money (conservative Hasbeen's) on the Stanley?

Well, steam is still the most powerful force after atomic power!

Just look what it did to Chernobyl when superheated steam flashed to decomposed water, i.e., hydrogen and oxygen! And then exploded!

I'd want a Stanley as my personal transport during the nuclear winter that followed Armageddon. And in prospect if nothing much changes?

I'd replace the wheels with tracks? so I could use it a tractor. To plant the industrial hemp that would decontaminate the fields.

You bag, load and deliver ten tons of coal on your Pat Malone and you know you've worked hard.

Almost any fool with an ego so big, he and it can't fit in the same room, can invest other folk's money, for a suitable fee. and even claim a bonus when they guess right?

With a degree of accuracy as good as a dart-throwing monkey?

Ah, to have had those ("hard work") opportunities!
Alan B.

stand by stand by! The next Trump appointment to the High Court is a nazi. Oh that's right he hasn't chosen him yet. Sorry fake news to come.

Unfortunately, I would have to agree on how much failure this whole concept is basically reeking of. We cannot deny that regardless of how many people had voted for him, the percentage of non-voters sadly exceeds that for sure. However, it is to our dismay that he still managed to conquer through and the affected citizens would have to live with that. Failure would still persist in so many different ways and they would somehow need to manage slowly and see if there are any positivity that could come out of this.

After all the complaints about the way that Trump has done some things…. It's very interesting to see how some of his initiatives are actually changing the States for the better. His methods are more definitely unorthodox and he's generally very hard hitting, but there's no denying that he is seeing some results from the things that he's implementing. I just hope that we don't see that kind of stubbornness happening here although it's interesting to sit back and eat the popcorn..