Apply the term comparative manufacturing costs to trucks tams etc. To understand where I'm coming from.

Not suggesting they could all be produced for as little as 15,000 AUD! However, with the right single site, single manufacturer of all components operating from that single site and therefore taxed just once! Possible for some?

But particularly if excluded, during the first five years, from the ubiquitous and cascading GST!
Alan B.

Boils down to how much is enough?
Greed is indeed great.

Along every road Alan ?
Anyway, why do you think nothing has happened with inductive charging
of electric cars ?
There has been no solution to the RF interference problem.
Especially your idea of having it linear, what a great antenna !

I see Alan is back with his pie in the sky, Flash Gorden ideas. Been on the Kool Aid while away old mate? I wonder what your "cling wrap thin layer of electrified, super-strong superconductor, graphene, highway/tram track underlay, and vehicles fitted with an underbelly electric magnetic induction plate that then allows continuous charging on the go", would cost for an Adelaide to Perth section of highway.

At least you want to power it with nuclear power, rather then windmills. As for the cost of building locally I presume you meant $15000. If so you are probably right, or it could be even less, I doubt the last standard Holdens cost that much ex factory door. However you are forgetting, or don't understand the costs of marketing. Then add inventory costs, & the cost of getting paid, & you have something closer to real cost, before profit.

In my last manufacturing company it cost us over twice the cost of the item production cost to get it to local retailers, & over 4 times to Melbourne, Adelaide & Perth. In fact with one product which we exported, it cost us less to ship to Japan than Perth or Adelaide.

You are right about those batteries Bazz. Those I use in my remote control planes have escalated in price by 300% since 2015 when I bought my first. Then we have this Hydrogen garbage, producing by windmill & exporting. Talk about stupidity, unless subsidised by the tax payer to about 500%.

I wonder when the clowns are going to demand ships go back to cotton sail power, to save the planet. At least that would help local manufacturing.

He is right about the subsidies. A neighbor became a single mother when her bloke strayed. She is struggling somewhat with house repayments, a bit high for a single.

Luckily she is very well paid working for a defense contractor, & her situation highlights the stupidity of paying more for childminding than the job pays.

She recently negotiated to work 3 days a week, now her daughter is in preschool. With all the child care benefits, family tax plan B supporting parent benefit & something else she mentioned, + now free child minding most of the day at preschool,she has a higher net income working 3 days than 5.

I guess it depends what you call austerity. We can have all these ladies send their kids to childcare, & subsidise that, or we could just give them the subsidy & let them stay home & look after their kids themselves. This way we can claim 2 people employed for about the same payout. Pretty shonky accounting really, & of very doubtful benefit to the kids.

The best country in the world has needy ? What does that say about our bureaucrats !