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Steve, do you believe labor would not have introduced a gst? do you believe we have real choice in political parties? don't preselection rorts in both parties engender mistrust in this so-called democracy? komninos At 10:42 PM 1/31/01 +1100, you wrote: >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 > >-- > komninos's cyberpoetry site http://student.uq.edu.au/~s271502 cyberpoet@slv site http://www.experimedia.vic.gov.au/cyberpoet/ komninos zervos, tel. +61 7 5552 8872 lecturer in cyberStudies, school of arts, gold coast campus, griffith university, pmb 50, gold coast mail centre queensland, 9726 australia.