Dear Editor,
We are told that Chris hates Delia, and Delia hates Matthew. Delia most likely hates Chris, too. And Matthew probably hates Delia as well, and possibly dislikes, or maybe even hates Paul.
Delia does not like any of the “Anti-Discrimination Commissioner” applicants, so she chooses her own. And the successful person is not her mother, as some suspected.
It seems to me that there has always been plenty of healthy “discrimination” taking place within the NT Labor Party. But now some of the elected Labor members are airing their individual “discriminations” in public.
Should not the new “Anti-Discrimination Commissioner” immediately intervene to stop all this “discrimination”?
Or should we really just allow people to “discriminate” about other people, cars, and houses, dogs….. Or whatever, as they always have and always will?
Therefore, surely we should forget about hiring another “Anti-Discrimination Commissioner” and save the ever-suffering taxpayer plenty of money?
After all, I doubt that even 1% of fair-dinkum, productive NT people have ever availed themselves of this totally unnecessary and costly (to taxpayers) “service”.
Yours truly,
Dave Wane
17th November, 2009
Friday, November 27, 2009
Friday, November 13, 2009
Resource Tax
Dear Editor,
Re: Resource tax.
The NT News editorial of 5th November, 2009 seems to side with career bureaucrat, and now Treasury Secretary, Ken Henry, over the need for a resource tax.
I seriously question the need for additional taxes of any kind, and certainly not a resource tax on the mining sector, which of course provides so much of Australia’s income.
Even if this resource tax went ahead, what would be the benefits? And more importantly, how would this new taxation revenue be spent?
In my view, state and territory governments would undoubtedly waste the money by building bigger bureaucracies and installing more incompetent, time-serving public-service “managers”. The resource tax funds would be squandered.
For example, the GST, introduced by the Howard Government in July 2000 as a means of providing a revenue stream to the states, and hopefully wiping out some obnoxious state taxes like stamp duty and payroll tax, soon became a milch cow to pay for the ever-expanding numbers of taxpayer-funded employees in every state and territory.
Here in the Northern Territory, the Martin and Henderson governments have increased the number of taxpayer-funded employees by well over 4,000 since Labor was elected in 2001. The annual cost of this scandalous mismanagement would likely be in the order of $500 Million or up to $5 Billion during the entire period of the Martin/Henderson Labor Government.
Providing governments with endless revenue streams is akin to buying an alcoholic another drink, or providing a drug addict with more drugs. The “disease” is only exacerbated.
However, the editorial correctly points out: “A resource tax would undoubtedly scare off some miners”.
But can Australia really afford to scare off anyone, let alone the miners who already contribute in so many ways to this country’s high standard of living.
Less taxation, smaller-well-managed government is the way forward for a prosperous Australia, where everyone can benefit from our wealth, not just those, like Ken Henry, who feed at the taxpayer-funded-trough.
Yours truly,
Dave Wane
6th November, 2009
Re: Resource tax.
The NT News editorial of 5th November, 2009 seems to side with career bureaucrat, and now Treasury Secretary, Ken Henry, over the need for a resource tax.
I seriously question the need for additional taxes of any kind, and certainly not a resource tax on the mining sector, which of course provides so much of Australia’s income.
Even if this resource tax went ahead, what would be the benefits? And more importantly, how would this new taxation revenue be spent?
In my view, state and territory governments would undoubtedly waste the money by building bigger bureaucracies and installing more incompetent, time-serving public-service “managers”. The resource tax funds would be squandered.
For example, the GST, introduced by the Howard Government in July 2000 as a means of providing a revenue stream to the states, and hopefully wiping out some obnoxious state taxes like stamp duty and payroll tax, soon became a milch cow to pay for the ever-expanding numbers of taxpayer-funded employees in every state and territory.
Here in the Northern Territory, the Martin and Henderson governments have increased the number of taxpayer-funded employees by well over 4,000 since Labor was elected in 2001. The annual cost of this scandalous mismanagement would likely be in the order of $500 Million or up to $5 Billion during the entire period of the Martin/Henderson Labor Government.
Providing governments with endless revenue streams is akin to buying an alcoholic another drink, or providing a drug addict with more drugs. The “disease” is only exacerbated.
However, the editorial correctly points out: “A resource tax would undoubtedly scare off some miners”.
But can Australia really afford to scare off anyone, let alone the miners who already contribute in so many ways to this country’s high standard of living.
Less taxation, smaller-well-managed government is the way forward for a prosperous Australia, where everyone can benefit from our wealth, not just those, like Ken Henry, who feed at the taxpayer-funded-trough.
Yours truly,
Dave Wane
6th November, 2009
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