Bye bye Ceej
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Now we might be able to get down to some meaningful discussion!

If Bligh is willing to commit a many millions of taxpayer dollars in bonuses to incentivise people to locate away from SEQ, then why wouldn’t she be willing to implement disincentives for people wanting to move into SEQ, by way of erecting new taxes, levees, surcharges, etc for new residents??

She’d be increasing state revenue and not imposing a further drain on current taxpayers. Sounds eminently sensible and politically achievable to me! Wouldn’t she get a lot of support from the voting public of SEQ if she did this?

This really is so basic. In a region with obvious population pressure, people should definitely have to pay extra to move in. Either this or we should have a one in one out system, whereby people can only move in at the same rate as current residents leave or drop off the perch!

This sort of approach wouldn’t stop population growth in Queensland, as all areas outside of SEQ would be free of this population pressure levee, or perhaps some areas would have a smaller levee. So it would work to decentralise incoming population in just the same way, but more effectively, than Anna’s silly $3000 bonus idea.

Ooow, no respondents!

Pity about that. The silly exchange with CJ has sent everyone scooting away from this very important topic.

I'll just have to start a new general thread!

Yeah, you did a good job of derailing your own thread.

Perhaps you'll learn something from that.

Oh hullo CJ. You said bye bye but you didn’t leave, you just lurked and loitered around out the back, peering in the window and through the keyhole. Why am I not surprised?

Yeah, silly me for engaging you in a discussion. I should have just ignored you.

Someone who sings the praises of an organisation that he belongs to and is then found to be completely lacking in knowledge as to what his organisation is actually doing about the very thing that he is praising them for, deserves to be ignored.

I mean, what a drongo!!

Apparently not.

Apparently so you mean, old buddy.

I learnt, as I said, that I should have ignored you.

But then if I had, you wouldn’t have been exposed as a drongo who praises of an organisation that he belongs to and is then found to be completely lacking in knowledge as to what his organisation is actually doing about the very thing that he is praising them for!

Now, maybe you’ve learnt something from this discussion: that you must not assert things that you completely don’t know the veracity of. Especially when you can so easily be caught out!