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: 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
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>
> I'm with you, Peter, you're not alone!
>
> > Colin Reid
> Brisbane
> Email:
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> 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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3rd yr physics
(Falkiner High Energy Physics)
University of Sydney
NSW 2006
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