Well, the environment exists for man rather than the other way round.
Kiran
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Bill Stent wrote:
> Kiran
>
> What is moral about subsidising the private sector's mining of the
> environment? By handing out grants to farmers who are affected by drought
> that's what we'd be doing.
>
> I'm not advocating "appropriating" anything. It would be land purchasing.
> Money goes one way, title goes the other.
>
> It would seem to me that one of the government's primary purposees is to
> curb the excesses of the monetary-profit maximising private sector in order
> to protect the wider and intertemporal interests.
>
> But I think we've had this discussion before.
>
> Bill
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kiran Krishna
> Sent: Wednesday, 9 October 2002 8:10 AM
> To: Bill Stent
> Cc: 'REID Colin'; 'Peter Waanders'; Terry Pacey (E-mail); Birding Aus
> Subject: RE: [BIRDING-AUS] NSW Western Woodlands need your help NOW
>
>
> Bill,
>
> Well, primarily because a contract ought not, on behalf of the public, to
> take advantage of the dire needs of a proprietor, in order to appropriate
> his property. An individual is free to be immoral, but the government
> ought not to be.
>
> Kiran
>
>
> On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Bill Stent wrote:
>
> > Me too.
> >
> > Typical economist's suggestion - why doesn't the government take equity -
> > partial ownership of farming land - in return for their drought relief
> > handouts? This goes for all other bailouts to the private sector as well
> of
> > course. Marginal farming land gained in this way could either be returned
> > to productive use in better years or (better) retired, rehabilitated
> (maybe
> > as part of the infamous work for the dole system) and covenanted.
> >
> > That way taxpayers (which includes the farmers themselves - those of them
> > who pay tax) get some sort of eventual bang for their buck.
> >
> > Or is that using the "N" word - nationalisation?
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: REID Colin
> > Sent: Wednesday, 9 October 2002 7:52 AM
> > To: 'Peter Waanders'; Birding Aus
> > Subject: RE: [BIRDING-AUS] NSW Western Woodlands need your help NOW
> >
> >
> > I'm with you, Peter, you're not alone!
> >
> > > Colin Reid
> > Brisbane
> > Email:
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter Waanders
> > Sent: Tuesday, 8 October 2002 7:59 PM
> > To: Birding Aus
> > Subject: Re: [BIRDING-AUS] NSW Western Woodlands need your help NOW
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> Kiran Krishna
> 3rd yr physics
> (Falkiner High Energy Physics)
> University of Sydney
> NSW 2006
>
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> slayer.
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Kiran Krishna
3rd yr physics
(Falkiner High Energy Physics)
University of Sydney
NSW 2006
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sponge. First the criminal who slays then the sophist who defends the
slayer.
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