freediver wrote on Oct 31
st, 2020 at 9:31am:
LNP:
10pm curfew for kids - WTF?
$300 car rego cashback - makes sense from a macroeconomic perspective
electricity subsidies for big businesses - terrible idea from an economic or climate perspective
fake claims about death taxes
ALP:
Voluntary Assisted Dying (euthanasia)
free tampons
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/queensland/your-guide-to-the-biggest-queensland-election-promises-at-a-glance-20201023-p567zs.html
I asked the question of the local Labor candidate, given the local LNP candidate was too busy running $2500-per-plate "access" lunches, but given you mentioned it, I'll ask it here.
Why would a $300 rego rebate have any kind of stimulatory economic impact, given current trends around:
- Saving any extra money coming into households where possible
- If not saving, then paying down debt ("repairing household balance sheets"), or
- Using the money to pay for Government fees, taxes, charges and levies...
...None of which stimulate much by way of economic activity.
Personally, that - as much as anything else - lost them my vote.
Why?
Because it was blatant "vote buying".
Thankfully the electorate saw past it.