Paul,

Another example of Green pinhead economics from you again.

Elon Musk is building a battery supply in SA to support renewable power. Is he one of your cigar-chomping foreign tax fraudsters?

Dear Paul,

Don't bother arguing with posters who descend into
name-calling, insults, and similar lazy, childish
tactics or a dismissal of anyone other than those
on "their" side, attempts at objectivity are so
scarce with them.

Foxy,

You obviously didn't read Paul's post. Oh I forgot you only attack one side.

Shadow Minister,

Leave the insults to the pros.
You're going to hurt yourself.
Go play in traffic.

Foxy,

I used exactly the same phrases that Paul used, yet you attack me. What rank hypocrisy!

The left whinge approach to balancing the budget is simply to raise taxes and as no one loves big corporations taxing them is a win-win.

Unfortunately, life is not that simple, and for actions there are consequences. With countries around the globe reducing company tax precisely to attract foreign investment, for example, the UK company tax rate is now 19% down from 25%. Ireland's and Singapore who both have tiny markets and no resources have company tax rates of 12% and their countries are booming.

In less than 2 decades Australia's share of foreign investment has halved, which means fewer high paid jobs and the tax that comes from this and the company tax. So yes the greens and ALP policies are short-sighted and disastrous in the long term.

Shadow, you can take a begging bowl approach to foreign investment, generally a few jobs for a heap of profitable concessions, or you can take a partnership approach and ensure the best outcome for Australia. What is it to be?

No worries Foxy, been sparring with the me old mate Shadow for about 7 years now, even spent time with him in the sin bin. All I can say is he snores!