Good points, but don’t mistake me for being anti-regulation or a full on libertarian. I accept there is a role for rules and for governments and we have to pay taxes for enforcing those rules. My point is there are too many poorly thought out rules that duplicate existing regulations or do little to fix underlying, or perceived, problems.

I do not smoke, but I find the rules about cigarette packing an absolute joke! Only a power hungry nanny state politician would think of that. I can only imagine the high those involved felt in passing that rule. Then once they got that one passed it was time to get some money and start raising taxes on cigarettes. How hypocritical, pass a law that supposedly helps the public health (which it most certainly does not) but then turn around and profit even more from those who smoke. Where does the money go? cancer research? no, hospitals? very little, lung disease center? ask them how much they get…mostly from private donations, and tobacco companies. Instead they line their pockets with raises and additional benefits, posh vacations and bigger annual bonuses. What’s next a bloody picture of a diseased liver on a bottle of beer? All bottles will be brown and no logo, just pictures of diseased livers and vomiting alcoholics living under a bridge, then they will raise the alcohol tax and it will cost $10 for a beer. Or how about pictures of obese kids on ice cream packages and candy, why not charge a fat tax on anything above 10 calories per serving? Where does it end? What ever happened to, making our own decisions about whats good for us and what’s not? What if I want to be a fat unhealthy smoker? Isn’t that my right of choice in this god given right of life? Is it good to eat bacon with every meal of the day? Should the Nanny staters limit how much butter you can buy in a week? When will the the toilets in our public bathrooms start measuring our blood sugar in our urine and cholesterol levels from our feces immediately flagging the computers and limiting what we can buy when we go to store that day?

How about we have a “legislation tax”? For those who are so willing to just legislate instead of leading have to pay a very large tax or post a bond on ever law they impose, so when its proven it does not work the time wasted on removing the law is not paid by the taxpayer but by the the legislator. Maybe its time for them to think before the act or pay the price of their mistake.

Gun control did it work no . Only on the law abiding the criminals have anything that they want. But more cars kill every year and tabbaco kills at least 100, 000 a year but its ok they get tax from it.

You cant 4wd or use dirt bike in state forest because you will get hurt. But its ok if u use a registered dirt bike.

I believe we need licensing from background checks . But I dont believe in the genuine reason its rubbish.

We dont need gun control we need criminal control. Stop penalizing the law abiding and putting us on the same level of an untrusted criminal

This country is SHIT!

But from the perspective of the private sector, the ambitions of the nation’s government are one of the prime factors behind the growing cost of doing business in Australia.

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