http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/22/we-need-to-wind-back-the-pubs-pokie-addiction-too/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:48:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/22/we-need-to-wind-back-the-pubs-pokie-addiction-too/#comment-10777 Gregory Alexander JAMES Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-10777 The ALP is addicted to collecting the revenue for short term gain and quite happily is willing to sacrifice the bogan losers who addicttvly contribute their childrens well being over the long run.<br />It is more a case of how bereft they are on ideas for a tax replacement of the revenue. The real problem is that they unlike 'The Economist' can compute that the social cost over the long term is 5 times, but the ALP whose main brief would be to protect the vulnerable cannot do that sum. Mark Latham was very right about these management troglydites. The ALP is addicted to collecting the revenue for short term gain and quite happily is willing to sacrifice the bogan losers who addicttvly contribute their childrens well being over the long run.
It is more a case of how bereft they are on ideas for a tax replacement of the revenue. The real problem is that they unlike ‘The Economist’ can compute that the social cost over the long term is 5 times, but the ALP whose main brief would be to protect the vulnerable cannot do that sum. Mark Latham was very right about these management troglydites.

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