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More waste (was Re: More Orwell, for everyone!
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 11 Jun 2004 12:12:46 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Parsons wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> > There's also the small issue that it costs a lot of money to do that. Who is
> > going to pay for it?
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> Oh I don't know.
(snipped the rest away)
Precisely. I think you mean the taxpayer, in other words.
Bollocks.
If you found A$300M that's not needed, how about this for an idea... give it
BACK to the taxpayers you taxed in the first place instead of spending it on
another boondoggle.
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| (...) A very fine idea (the reducing the overall tax burden part), if there's no sufficiently constructive use to which to put the money. A very popular call too - don't waste my money on other people or the future, give it back to me. Obviously we (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: More Orwell, for everyone!
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| (...) Oh I don't know. I'd put it somewhere around the $300m mark. I never cease to be amazed at how much money we spend on advertising programmes to alert the general public as to how nice and clever the government thinks it is, particularly with (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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