McKim and Contempt.

Originally posted by boomeronrations: ↑

Left as bad as right ?

At the extremes perhaps, but , being a bit to the left of the ALP hardly gets you into Cuba territory.

So , in general my leftist party would have as its aims , and this list is not exhaustive,
1. taxation at the oecd average
2. ideally , taxation of capital and income from capital , not taxed preferentially over income from labour.
3. universal basic income
4 . public owned housing at between 10 to 15%
5. publicly owned major utilities, power ,water ,transport[roads and mass transit], basic communications.
[ if there is any argument over public vs private ownership , I suggest you look at Thames water vs the WA Water Authority]
6. education secular
7. a recognition that capitalism is necessary , but it needs to be regulated carefully to avoid excesses.
8. on the environment , for everyone's comfort and future care need to be taken with our world.
But the reason we are doing it is for the sake of humans.
There is a black streak of misanthropy thru the green movement . Humanity trumps Gaia.
Everybody should read about Golden Rice , and be disgusted.

There is a hint there why I hate the Greens , it is because when it comes to their greenness and a child going blind , guess which way they jump.

cheers

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I'm generally not in favour of GMO but I haver to admit there are important aspect wrt nutrition that GMO can solve.

on the other hand the global population continues to soar. how such humanitarian efforts to feed more nutritious food..... can cause problems and humanitarian disasters.

on your principles, I share agreement for the most part.... but I draw the line at nationalising industry and all services, but fully agree there needs to be better regulation. Abbott's deregulation drive proved how business, exampled in this context and OP, can damage the community and the economy with greed.

I wouldn't mind so much if only the companies indulged in genuine philanthropy and worked with the govt to control inflation instead.

and on UBI? its too soon but clearly the day is coming when unemployment will have to be considered exactly that as Ai robotics takes over such large swathes of the economy. this is what the last mob tried to stop through their inaction. the new tech that will come to Aus as the govt incentives unfold will change the employment system. with such new tech productivity will increase dramatically and as more people are replaced so too the govt will be able to manage on productivity alone and have greater ability to fund services to the community. UBI will just be the start.