Elect them and they will put up taxes manta
I often watch foreign movies and marvel at the infrastructure in other countries and marvel at how they can build it and we can’t. How we once did but now can’t.
The standard answer is always we are a large country with a small population, we can’t build fast rail but we did build rail to link the capital cities all the way to Perth. We did build Telecommunications infrastructure to link the capital cites and Australia to the world. We did build Roads now a private company builds Toll roads and makes monstrous profits collecting tolls.
The answer is at every election one party says if you elect them they will put up taxes and the other party says no we won’t. The poor taxpayers vote to protect what little they have. The result is who ever is elected has to find ways around the system to spend with a fan fare just before an election to get re elected. Usually spending unwisely hoping taxpayers don’t remember.
So there is an endless flow of lies to win votes and an endless flow of problems yet to be solved.
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