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The rationale behind private health insurance rebate is the perceived cost effectiveness of moving a proportion of Medicare users to private pay healthcare i.e. they're no longer a burden on health budgets.

Where do you live? I live in fucking Bradfield. It's been Liberal since '49. You either vote Liberal here or you've got a bad case of the middle/upper class liberal guilt and you vote Greens.

I'd contend that Abbot's shitness is on par or worse with Rudd. They're both socially conservative fuckwits. However it isn't politics to reneg on your biggest campaign promises. I genuinely believe Abbot wants the maternity leave scheme: keeps women at home, in the bedroom/kitchen etc, which is...

Hang on.. a federally funded longer paid maternity leave with funds derived from a fat cat tax is smaller and efficient government? a federally funded emissions reduction fund is "smaller and more efficient government" then implementing a market mechanism to price carbon? Scuba steve I...

My sister tutors first year political economy. That would explain the prol revolutionary spark in ongitsanjali's otherwise empty skull. And there are probably more of them, too.

Oh dear.

tax = theft tea party in protest

It's called a pigovian tax morans. And I believe it's perfectly acceptable to tax activities to correct negative externalities. Property rights motherfuckers. The only contentious bit is the subjective interpretation of social externalities, but as Slidey said such policy is most often...

They're the only party I know of that is truly passionate about fertilizer. If you haven't been brainwashed by the mass media into ignorance about the state of the national fertilizer industry and care about our valiant fertilizer producers you WILL vote for the Citizens Electoral Council...

Fixed that for you.

You stated that political economists aren't real economists. JSM and Adam Smith WERE political economists - ergo you implied that they weren't real economists. However the modern political economist (or political economy major) is hardly comparable to an economic pioneer such as Adam Smith (in...

cbf to explain got work to do m8

You're an economic William Wallace.

Did he support limited funkshen? I hope so.

He supported limited government. Sorry scuba steve I thought you read lots of economic literature/textbooks and knew a thing or two.

free banking gold standard monetary targeting blatant disregard for empirical evidence Your faith in such ludicrous utopian economics is misplaced, scuba steve, and is comparable to that of collectivist hippies. However I do admire their critical approach to boom (read: credit) economics and...

Cool sweeping generalisations based on tenuous anecdotal evidence bro. Also, "greedy consumers", what does that even mean? If you mean they consume beyond their means and don't save adequately... It's learned behaviour. Learned behaviour from their baby boomer parents who have made living...

Hitler reference in a politics thread. Wit.

Troll in the dungeon.

Should've voted Family First.