No License & RollOver

I have no interest in ever running for any parliamentary position.

However, I do think there is an opportunity for an interested individual to start the ‘No Licenses’ party to run for senate in the various state governments, and maybe also in the Federal circus.

The general mandate would be to remove all trivial licenses for things like recreational fishing and hunting, and especially for upcoming intrusions into our daily lives such as licenses for cycling.

Going further, penalties for driving licenses should be wound back to days past with a removal of the points system and a zero removed from all financial penalties.

The goal would be to get control of the various senates and then to support the government of the day in return for these sane outcomes.

These actions would start the trend of removing the daily intrusion into our lives by a bunch of ego-maniacal non-practicing lawyers.

In fact, for the first few years there may need to be a mandate that the government of the day has to delete 10 laws for every new one it passes. It would take a few years but eventually we would be left with the ones that are actually enforced and that we truly appreciate.

Alongside the No Licenses Party there would be a GetUp style organization – call it RollOver – which harnesses the power of crowdsourcing to fund and publicize these issues.

Both the GetUp and RollOver folk want a better and more caring world; their hearts are in the right place. However they will differ in that the deluded GetUp types think that government should be responsible for every solution to every little problem, thereby making the problem worse.

Federally, the first target would have to be copyright – we would need to remove all support for foreign content owners. GST reporting would either be automated or, if not, annihilated. All that money spent on anti-terrorism would be redirected towards a free top-end holiday resort in the Pacific where potential offenders are sent. Military spending would be slashed and the world’s best hackers would be hired to ensure our defense and attack capabilities are in place. Company tax would be removed altogether but the higher income tax bracket would be increased accordingly. Fringe benefits would be a thing of the past as we go to a completely electronic currency. All electronic currency leaving the country would be subject to a flat tax rate. New large cities would be planned and built to take the pressure of the existing ones. Foreign investment in real estate would be stopped altogether and current foreign owners of real estate be given 5 years to dispose of their holdings in an orderly fashion. A lucrative patent box scheme would be offered to our corporates in order to encourage them to start inventing and innovating at the core of their operations. Some of that super money would be forcibly carved out for lending to business as super cheap working capital with a government guarantee that probably won’t be needed. Oh, and billions would be spent on public transport.

All we need is some tech-savvy missionary to take this one on – please forward this blog entry far and wide.