Quote Originally Posted by Chevron Action Flash View Post
This is poor, lazy policy from the Lib govt. This runs counter to their whole matra about individual empowerment, the power of the marketplace, free market, etc.
Business as usual, in other words.
If it's any consolation, there's pretty good odds they'll quietly shelve this latest brain fart after the election - especially if it starts causing them polling pain. Chances are it's all about padding out the upcoming Budget bottom line - it's not actually supposed to work (whether it does or not is irrelevant), as long as they can use the phantom savings/revenue to make their ongoing fiscal incompetence look a little less dismal.

"Oh yeah, Amazon and eBay will totally do all the hard work for us, and it'll bring in Eleventy Billion Dollars worth of extra GST revenue!"