@Nicholas - I agree, but the reality is that around 400,000 swing voters effectively decide who gets into government, and these voters are very unlikely to a range of solutions like capital gains tax, land taxes, wealth taxes etc. Compromise measures such as the ones Bernard suggests, along with others such as raising the accepted level …
@Nicholas - I agree, but the reality is that around 400,000 swing voters effectively decide who gets into government, and these voters are very unlikely to a range of solutions like capital gains tax, land taxes, wealth taxes etc. Compromise measures such as the ones Bernard suggests, along with others such as raising the accepted level of central government debt, cutting local government in on a share of GST etc, might actually serve to unlock some of the current impasses. Politics, after all, is the art of the possible.
@Nicholas - I agree, but the reality is that around 400,000 swing voters effectively decide who gets into government, and these voters are very unlikely to a range of solutions like capital gains tax, land taxes, wealth taxes etc. Compromise measures such as the ones Bernard suggests, along with others such as raising the accepted level of central government debt, cutting local government in on a share of GST etc, might actually serve to unlock some of the current impasses. Politics, after all, is the art of the possible.