TURNBULL OUTFOXES THE PREMIERS AND MEDIA
Many journalists blinded by their inbred distaste for the Liberals and the Prime Minister, have missed the point in the Taxation offer to the States.
The PM has blindsided the Premiers with his offer. They must now justify their requests for cash, instead of bringing their collective begging bowls with quibbling to the handout table. Unrealistically blaming the Federal Government for their own bad management.
The Premiers were smart enough however, to understand that earning enough Income to balance their Expenditure is bloody hard work and anyway, would need legislation under the Constitution to grant the States Income taxing powers.
Legislative changes notwithstanding, The reduction in duplication of bureaucracy alone would save the Commonwealth a great amount of unnecessary expenditure. Why we need a Commonwealth Dept. of Health and Dept. of Education etc. etc., when the States have the same - is horribly inefficient?
Which begs the question, why in the 21st Century, do we need State governments?
The Police have to arrange extradition papers to move a culprit from one State to another. Utter nonsense! This is the Federation of Australia, not individual European countries. How time consuming and wasteful and inefficient and unnecessary.
This style of thinking produced 3 different Railway gauges at the time of Federation, which was hopelessly ineffieient. Clearly no broad National thinking was allowed under States' Rights log jams, then or now.
When will Australia grow up?
1 comment:
I suspect Malcolm Turnbull outfoxed himself and played into the hands of his opponents - both outside and within his own party.
Outfoxing the "media" is no great achievement, with competent, knowledgeable and insightful journalists going the way of the dodo.
On the relevance of the sovereign states, and a federation generally, are addressed elsewhere (https://democratic.systems) and I believe we're in accord generally on the inherent inefficiency of duplication (triplication if we include local government) of services.
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