Tony abbott has suggested that rather than taxing the miners twice, simply increase the royalties and get a similar result.

About time I say.

i conquere..[as in agree]

federally there needs to be a basic adjustement
a top up levey..

for those states
seeking to attract mining by having lower royalties

there/by putting more burden on its people..
with higher fees and charges..[upon those..who are allready loosing their assets...and services..being sold off too rapidly]

i hear canadanians actually get a share of the income
raised from royalties...thus feel if the people arnt getting the advantage...*leave it in the ground

ie why build the exploiters railways/ports
[or gas pipelines]..ie infastructure..
to loot and pilage from us all

there is the jobs jobs jobs issue as well
but the ab/origonals arnt getting the jobs

and just like the work done on their camps
[its done with fly in fly out..fly by nighters
charging us all double..the blighters and backbiters]

i note your unique spelling of sense

this set of many thought's...
like we got basic 'common'sense
upon which we base our world vieuws...

but also the cents
upon which we base our fiat 'money'system
[or rather USED to]

i note the removal of our cents
now their after our sixpences
[that somehow equaled 5 cents]
when they took the silver from our money]

noting that pennies used to be silver
then became big copper coins

then lighter copper coins
then smaller copper coins
then they became cents

and then they became too small
we had thieves take all of them away

now we got the same problem
as we got with our 5 cents
[noting the 10's/20's will soon follow]
their weight..[cost]..in nickle being at parity]

the thieves are still taking
*all our metals away
even to the point
of taking all our cents
as well as common sense

[or is that sense...of cents
by colluded absence..
or or just non-sence]

what do we get
for OUR minerals and metals

..pennies?

or just more capitalistic non-sense
werre we bailout those who set out to fail
or want to take it all

Dear Tony

While you are solving all the world's problems, please set up free adult literacy classes.

"sence"? SENSE

"conquere"? CONCUR

Ammonite
Nice to see you care.

I have never been a great speller however I am getting better.

But hey, at least even you knew what I meant.

As Wayne Swan pointed out, "If they increase their royalties and all of that increase then goes to the other states the people of WA are not better off."

I used to wonder if that would be the better route too rehctub but changed my mind.

Trouble with increasing royalties is the mining companies pay even if profits are lower or the investment is not as lucrative as originally forecast. The beauty of the super profits tax is that when the mining company investment pays off big, it pays off for the owners of the minerals as well. It is win-win.