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Nev Cottrell (35)
Selling profitable assets to possibly achieve a surplus is lazy economics.
What does such a government do when there are no more assets available to be sold?
Start an new NBN and then sell it!
Selling profitable assets to possibly achieve a surplus is lazy economics.
What does such a government do when there are no more assets available to be sold?
Pity none of these negatives were around when the ALP sold off something like 24 government businesses. Perhaps they were correct and the smh and the new labour party are wrong.
Start an new NBN and then sell it!
MT hasn't started a new NBN, he's been tasked by TA to "destroy the NBN".
A.L.P., Liberal Party, or National Party makes no difference to me. Lazy economics is lazy economics.
Pity none of these negatives were around when the ALP sold off something like 24 government businesses. Perhaps they were correct and the smh and the new labour party are wrong.
Not quite apples for apples runner. Labor sold assets to deregulate and open the economy. Do we really want to deregulate our health sector? More than happy to see the Government hold a bit of control over that one.
Start an new NBN and then sell it!
I'm thinking of a word that starts with the letter C and rhymes with runts....
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-...ration-advice-service-for-asylum-seek/5355570
Selling profitable assets to possibly achieve a surplus is lazy economics.
What does such a government do when there are no more assets available to be sold?
It depends on your philosophy as to what a government is for.
Lazy surplus economics is far preferable to lazy deficit spending
I for one don't think it adds value to the economy for the government to run a private health insurance provider (and many other areas that aren't what you could really consider "core")
It depends, would it be OK for the government to run a fish and chip shop or supermarket?
Just what is the role of government? To run businesses in competition with the inmates?
No.
If the government already owned a fish and chip shop due to actions of a previous government and the fish and chip shop was entirely independent, paid taxes like other fish and chip shops and provided a dividend to the government from its yearly surplus, should the government sell it?
The government isn't running Medibank Private. It just owns it. It is a highly competitive sector already so the government owning one of the many players in that market has negligable impact on the sector.