Half the Australian businesses that got a tax cut have banked the cash Half the Australian businesse, page-58

It's clearly an enforced means of reinvestment of earnings, on a wider scale that takes into account the public interest, as a whole.

By analogy, businesses will decide whether to reinvest or whether to issue dividends.

But. (and this is a big BUT!)

Individual companies aren't focused on the common good are they? They're focused on their own field and hopefully excelling in it.

Yet these businesses clearly benefit from the stability, infrastructure and certainty that taxation funded government services provide.

It worries me that we're having to re-establish this into the general understanding. Something is going wrong with the fact that we are able to develop views in isolation and not share common understanding. This is also a feature of being able to customise news feeds, surely?

For instance, it's possible for people to be regarded as educated, yet not understand simple principles like the fact that a minority government will have to revisit any election promises made on the assumption they'd win outright.

People called for blue murder when this happened, but the reality was they simply didn't understand what forming a minority government meant in the first place. Either nobody told them, or when they finally were being told, they weren't listening. Too outraged.

As a corollary to this, I find the level of emotion in public discourse, sometimes very disturbing indeed. It's not always possible to be heard because of it.

Thank you.