You may be quite right that an RSPT could work to the benefit of all. The main doubts I have result from the vagueness and confusion amongst those implementing it.
A roof insulation programme is a superb idea and very simple, yet they even cocked that up. (And instead of fixing the problems, they just gave up on it!) Then there's the NBN, internet censorship, or any of the other new things the current government is trying to royally screw up. Allowing lots of foreign visitors to buy houses here to prop up housing prices during the GFC, with the result that we have grossly inflated prices now. Pretty much every new idea this government has had after their first 6 months in power has either been stupid or stupidly implemented. I wouldn't trust any of them to competently perform any activity which is harder than using a photocopier, let alone implement a significant taxation policy.
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Date: 2010-06-06 02:03 pm (UTC)A roof insulation programme is a superb idea and very simple, yet they even cocked that up. (And instead of fixing the problems, they just gave up on it!) Then there's the NBN, internet censorship, or any of the other new things the current government is trying to royally screw up. Allowing lots of foreign visitors to buy houses here to prop up housing prices during the GFC, with the result that we have grossly inflated prices now. Pretty much every new idea this government has had after their first 6 months in power has either been stupid or stupidly implemented. I wouldn't trust any of them to competently perform any activity which is harder than using a photocopier, let alone implement a significant taxation policy.