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- From: guillaum@pogo.trl.OZ.AU (Andrew Guillaume)
- Subject: Re: Australian Products
- Message-ID: <1993Jan20.221058.4982@trl.oz.au>
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- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 22:10:58 GMT
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- Taso Hatzi writes in reply to Andrew Tune:
- |: 2) Why is it better for someone to buy something from Australians and
- |: bring benefit to Australia than to buy something from (say) Koreans
- |: and bring benefit to Korea?
- |
- |What if we bring the issue closer to home by extending it to
- |products and services?
- |
- |Let's extend this even further. Why not get rid of the Australian
- |public service and contract out the administrative work
- |to a low labour cost country? Taxes would be much lower because
- |the unemployed Public Servants would be collecting the dole
- |instead of salaries.
-
- Hang on. Unemployed public servants would then be subsidised by the few
- that would remain in employment. Unfair ! So:
-
- |In theory, we could export almost every job in the country.
-
- This should read: In theory we SHOULD export EVERY job in the country.
- After all, aren't we already selling all we have ?
-
- Andrew
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