Apptech wrote:

> If fuel tax was say halved - with consequent price reduction by 35% and
> rise in use and impact on balance of payments and all that goes with
> that, where would you like want them to make up the lost revenue from?
> If your answer is 'I wouldn't" then you are liable to be more effective
> targeting that as a root problem rather than one already optimised
> manifestation :-)

Yup. Must suggestions of how to deal with "the problem" focus on reducing
the taxpayers' obligations; generally, few of them deal with reducing the
benefits derived from the obligations (or with increasing the efficiency of
using it).

On a side note, I would feel safer if governments were not allowed to take
out loans that cross election lines (that is, they would have to return the
entity with as much or less debt than they got it).

Gerhard

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