everything they try to run is a mess

everything the private sector run gets cheaper and more awesome  :)

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And see my new thread here:

https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1777157500

A recent AICD Mandala report shows federal regulatory compliance
now costs the Australian economy around $160 billion a year,
almost 6 per cent of GDP and more than the Federal Government
spends on Medicare and school education combined.

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if you want less of something, tax it.
- Ronald Reagan


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An alimentary canal with a
Big appetite at one end and
No sense of responsibility
At the other'
- Ronald Reagan


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- Ronald Reagan


'The taxpayer:
That's someone who works
For the federal government
But doesn't have to take the
Civil service examination.'
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I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first'
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If it moves, tax it.
If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving,
Subsidize it'
- Ronald Reagan


'I have wondered at
Times about what the
Ten Commandments would
Have looked like if Moses
Had run them through
The  U.S.  Congress..
-Ronald Reagan


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it's just that they know so much that isn't so.'
-Ronald Reagan


'The most terrifying words
In the English language are:
I'm from the government
And I'm here to help.'
- Ronald Reagan


"Socialism only works
In two places:
Heaven where they don't
Need it and hell where they already have it."
- Ronald Reagan

aquascoot wrote on Apr 26^th, 2026 at 7:31pm:

everything they try to run is a mess everything the private sector run gets cheaper and more awesome  :)

Comparing local services to foreign labour, software and electronic goods is just nonsense.

aquascoot wrote on Apr 26^th, 2026 at 7:31pm:

everything they try to run is a mess everything the private sector run gets cheaper and more awesome  :)

Another example of confusing cheap with good.

Handing over public services to the private sector, where there is little to no profit incentive, is a disaster wherever it is attempted.

The primary motivation of private business is profit, not community well-being.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Apr 27^th, 2026 at 8:37am:

aquascoot wrote on Apr 26th, 2026 at 7:31pm: everything they try to run is a mess everything the private sector run gets cheaper and more awesome  :) Another example of confusing cheap with good. Handing over public services to the private sector, where there is little to no profit incentive, is a disaster wherever it is attempted. The primary motivation of private business is profit, not community well-being.

I think you got that backwards Meister.