Re your post which included; "... Lappy, with great respect, I have to support the diesel fuel rebate. I run a basalt quarry that provides road bases. ..."
As a small operator my dad used to cart gravel, soil, etc - as kids my brothers and I used to help him load by hand. With a son-in-law in the transport industry and contacts in the truckie's association and as a retail investor in the resources sector I'm not blind to the cost pressures in trucking and in resources.
Sadly for Australia our pollies are in the practice of making political footballs out of every issue they can. Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott have made wedge politics an artform; as if they have a right to claim ownership of every reform and blame their opponents for every issue.
We should all remember that the great majority of our pollies have legal, union or media backgrounds. Most are career pollies and many are generationally so. With some notable exceptions; very few have real expertise in launching and managing businesses let alone industries.
We need pollies who'll sustainably create a more productive Australia whose systems do not feature legal holes and cracks through which big players can wriggle and massage their profits. Pollies who'll put partisan politics behind them when the national interest is at stake.
Sectors of the economy that do not provide reasonable taxation revenues over the longer term should not be subsidised by government - global profit shifting and masquerading is a huge issue we need our pollies to address.
As for extending welfare into the upper echelons of society; IMO that's not the role of government.
