Traditional young liberal concern for human rights, environment and discrimination is in good hands.
The spread of income level is narrowest in societies which are the freest and the disadvantaged the least oppressed where privilege is not maintained by law.
Both labour and liberal party members send their children to private schools due to teachers moving to private schools. Government schools perform the worst compared to catholic and private schools.
A new capital gains tax where it taxes only real gains and allowing real losses would improve equity and economic neutrality but would be extremely difficult to administer
An improvement would be to have a broad-based consumption tax through taxation of an approximation of real capital gains and removing special privileges from the income tax act
The Australian Bureau of Labour Market Research (BLMR) states that youth employment was adversely affected by increase in relative youth wages in the 1970s.
There is a substantial barrier to downward flexibility.
Any further employment gains by youths are the expense of adult employees.
There are three philosophical positions: 1) The Dries (Free market advocates), 2) The Wets (Keynesian Big Govt advocates) and 3) The Uglies (preservers of status quo).
Due to the people seeing political corruption, a demagogue may just get enough support by posing as a Dry or Wet to turn the Opposition's philosophy away from a more open, free and personally responsible position.
The case against budget deficits has several arguments. One argument is that it is unfair that future debts are paid by our children.
Today's governments are making commitments to their employees which future governments are unable to fulfil without raising taxes. Future governments faced with this issue will find a way to welsh on their predecessors' promises.
Private ownership is where the citizen gains protection from the state and it not only an economic question but also moral and ethical questions. It should not get into bed with government.
The Labour Party's policies have caused an inflexible labour market and have prevented workers from negotiating a job. This has caused a drop-in employment for a long time to come.
The government uses our taxes to "educate" us with the government subsidising certain groups to tax payers for their mistake and imposing their will on what we can and cannot do.
Comparing present practices in private and public schools is the best way to inform parents on the effectiveness of sending their children to the school of their choice.
The switching of commercial to political entrepreneurship, established interests have encourage governments to protect their interests as well as causing the economies to stagnate.
Every regulation develops vested interests who defend it against any attempts to eliminate or reduce it. For example, if the state government were to deregulate the taxi industry, consumers would benefit from cheaper and more convenient travel.
Income tax law reflects government extravagance and years of successful lobbying by vested interests. If the Labour government were serious about tax avoidance, it would start by cleaning up the income tax act which favours the more powerful vested interests and best organised voters.
Protectionism is the act of taking money from one party to pay another and rarely punishes foreign competition and punishes any local party involves in the export sector.
The most illogical reason for banning X-rated videotapes that is it presumed that the actors are being exploited. To treat women as though they could not give consent is the ultimate sexual discrimination.
Costal shipping has been protected for longer than any other major Australian industry but has never been the subject of an inquiry. As a result, costal shipping is affecting industries that have to ship locally.
To control costs, the government will be forced to increase wait times for medical treatment. The best treatment will either be for those that can pay for it or those that can pull strings.
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.
We should never attempt to silence views that are different from ours. A liberal society however, is under no obligation to tax itself to subsidise peace and conservation movements.
By using the law without any overview to punish doctors for procedural errors that are hard to get correct, it causes the principle of certainty before the law.
Australian wheat farmers used to be among the world's efficient. However, through establishing collective arrangements market and control the wheat market, it has ensured that foreign growers having an advantage over them.
When government use taxpayers' money, they get future generations of taxpayers into debt and they seldom use the monies as efficiently as the private sector. The government's issue is that it seldom a lack of specialist knowledge and a disregard for the public's opinion.
The lesson from the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Development (MITI) is that where government interference is the least, the industries have done the best.
The mining industry is loaded with infrastructure costs which are not asked of other competing sectors of the Australian economy. In order for MIM share price to increase, there will be a need to reduce high levels of industry protection and reducing state taxes.
Both the US and Australia have penalised investing by spending consuming more and will cause a reduction in productivity and hamper long-term economic growth.
The election campaign extracted three promises from Bob Hawke: 1) no tax increases, 2) no increase in government expenditure without economic growth and 3) reduction in the budget deficit.