Ken
I really think you are crediting John Howard with far more
sophistication than he would claim for himself. Tax reform was the
only thing he could think to do, because it had been tried so many
times in other countries and the depths and heart needed for "vision"
and moral or ethical policy making need not be called upon - it's
only about the government making more money for itself and more
paperwork for everyone else. Though with all that extra tax revenue
you'd reckon they could afford to make decent reparation.
SKK
At 3:22 PM +1030 31/1/2001, Ken Bolton wrote:
>John Howard would typically attack the clarity of the language: tax reform
>meant only whast he intended to do, not alternative kinds of change. He'll
>wait till the nation will be appeased by his conversion to a word that no
>longer has any implication of reparation attached to it.
>
>KB
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