The John Hyde Archives
Historic archive of articles and newspaper columns written by former Australian politician John Hyde OAM.
Subsidies
Ord River sugar sage leaves a sour taste
- WA consumers subsidise the price of sugar for growers in QLD & NSW.
- The cost of establishing a sugar industry is high and there is no reason why foreign capital be used instead of taxpayer dollars.
Drought Aid
- Farmers that know how to use the rules and that are in the right position, can benefit from government aid at the expense of the taxpayer and other farmers.
- Subsidies creates weakness.
Airline Deregulation (11/11/83)
- Deregulation has enabled sharp reductions in the level of subsidies.
- The airline industry is no worse off while the consumer and taxpayer is better off.
Occam's Razor
Taxation Subsidies Politics Economics
- It is remarkable that socialists think that the free world's financial system to blame for third world poverty.
- There is no obligation for a liberal society to tax itself to subsidise conversation & peace movements.
Early Retirement from the Public Service
- Basic economics where subsidies create more demand.
- Abuse of provision of medical certificates for civil servants who retire on medical grounds.
The MIN Report
- Exporters have difficulties of low international prices and high Australian costs.
- The source of the troubles is bad government instead of bad markets.
- Mining companies are being loaded with infrastructural costs which are not asked of other competing sectors of the economy.
Advertising
- Tax funded advertising is the usage of taxes to subsidies one set of ideas against another.
- John doesn't believe that the public supports making judgements on standards such as tobacco and alcohol advertising and homosexuality.
- The Government's responsibility is to increase competition for claims about products and ideas.
The Evatt Foundation Conference
Regulation Subsidies Politics Business Competition
- Public sector monopolies give politicians opportunities to subsidise favoured voters.
- The public benefits the most from competition not private ownership.
The Children's Services Program
- Should child welfare payments be directly to single parents to be self-sufficient, most taxpayers would be happy for it to be so. However, the resources are being urged to be diverted by militant feminists to schemes that will increase the child care costs per child.
Dawkins Tertiary Funding Proposals
- A graduate tax is not unfair to students as knowledge is a valuable private good.
- The nature of subsidised education creates economic rents.
WorkCare And the RSI Epidemic
- Any illness, where the treatment is free or subsidised, tends to record a higher level of occurrence.
What Do We Want from Privatisation?
Protectionism Regulation Subsidies Business
- The reason why Government privatise public companies is to make them more efficient. The reason why they don't is that they fear the wrath of employees and the subsidised consumers.
Hi - Tech Industries
- Subsidising some industries at the expense of other isn't ideal but is better than standing in the way of new technology.
Football
Industrial Relations Subsidies
- The defence of subsidising the rich is everybody get their share and therefore the process is fare. It is both futile and unfair.
The Argyle Diamond Float
- The government did not make a profit when it sold its shares in the Argyle Diamond venture. The taxpayers were the ones that subsidised the purchase of shares and enabled tax avoidance by guaranteeing investors a fixed return.
About
John Hyde OAM is a former Australian politician. He was elected as the member for the Division of Moore in Western Australia for the Liberal Party.
John Hyde OAM is the author of Dry: In Defence of Economic Freedom.