Monday, March 14, 2005

I Want T-shirt.

Posting away from home again, cos I'm looking at Federalism (politics Heads-Up), and while it's interesting and all, i don't get to relate it to the Australian system. America's been having the same drive towards less state power and more federal power as the land of Oz, and I'm just wodnering how bad is it? doubt can be justified in NSW at the present time, with all the uproar over State Transit, Healthcare and Education... but at the same time would a federal system do any better? particularly where the senate curbs the amount of funds driected to more populous states. woudl Rhode Island really need the same funding for its public transport as NYC? the Aust Federal government had taken away a lot of the states taxatoin powers long ago in the way back when, and under Howard, they have been limited even further. NSW doesn't get proportional distribution of GST money - if NSW had any rights it wuold be able to increase taxation to improve all these services falling into disrepair. This is me whining, yet not doing anything about it. It'd be extremely hard to get states and federal to agree on anything right now, with labour dominated states, and a liberal federal govt. it's not just Industrial Relations on the cards come the new Senate - the move to a more unitary system may also be pushed forward. and by unitary I mean centralised, federal dominated.

Oil's Up over US$55.12 on NYMEX again. still gotta find out what OPEC did.

I'm gonna get back to work now, people are lookin at me funny. posted by Keegan at 2:53 pm

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