https://grumpytaxpayers.com/2019/03/where-is-the-big-city-mayor-for-victoria/ Almost the Best Place on Earth Sat, 09 Mar 2019 16:45:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://grumpytaxpayers.com/2019/03/where-is-the-big-city-mayor-for-victoria/#comment-74 Tue, 05 Mar 2019 00:52:16 +0000 http://grumpytaxpayers.com/?p=2342#comment-74 We should abandon attempts to get into the Big Cities league by the side door, and go straight for a form of local amalgamation. After all, if we (13 municipalities) can’t agree on any local combined or co-ordination actions, how could we possibly choose a Big Cities representative accredited to speak on any relevant subject? And as a taxpayer in Victoria, I certainly would not like to think of Mayor Helps as speaking for me.

]]> https://grumpytaxpayers.com/2019/03/where-is-the-big-city-mayor-for-victoria/#comment-73 Mon, 04 Mar 2019 00:35:36 +0000 http://grumpytaxpayers.com/?p=2342#comment-73 There is much support for the musings of Thomas Sowell: “The assumption that spending taxpayers’ money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse.” We already have far too many pigs at the trough of “general revenue”, all following the mantra of central planners: in order to ‘save’ the economy, we must do away with the free market. Increasingly, the entire financial system is being run to benefit government . . . accurately termed as “financial repression”. It has always been thus that if we want the economic growth necessary to maintain and even improve our living standards, then public sector imposed barriers to investment and production have to be removed. TINA . . . there is no alternative.

]]> https://grumpytaxpayers.com/2019/03/where-is-the-big-city-mayor-for-victoria/#comment-72 Sun, 03 Mar 2019 23:35:12 +0000 http://grumpytaxpayers.com/?p=2342#comment-72 Create greater Victoria regional govt for some 380,000. Send rep from that big city to big city mayors meetings.

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