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Mike Beane Has Been Banned?
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From
22/06/2010 21:52:44
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
 
 
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22/06/2010 20:18:02
Neil Mc Donald
Cencom Systems P/L
The Sun, Australia
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i.e. Primary Producers like the fishing industry or the Banks.

Fish is a renewable resource and government may not impose extra taxes but it does try to make rules so that the resource does not get depleted. Whereas there are no rules government can make to renew ships full of Australian soil being sent to China. Similarly the banks don't use up the money they loan though if they do plunge the world into financial crisis they must expect to be taxed for it.

Mining is making super-profits simply because the sale price of Australian soil is so high. Miners did not cause that to occur and were able to function before prices rose so high so there is no conceivable reason why the miners' share prices, executives and stockholders should claim the entire benefit of the high value of Australian soil. No competent asset owner would allow that and I don't see why the perception suddenly flips just because it's a government wanting to behave in a businesslike fashion.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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