I'm voting Labor. Why? Because I dislike Liberal policy by principle. Steal from the poor and give to the rich. I don't like it. Labor supports the little guy, Labor pumps more money into education and health. Ruddy boy won't stick his head up Bush's ass. Labor ftw.
"Steal from the poor and give to the rich" is a very uninformed statement. I'd like you to back that up. Labor is the one that "steals from everyone" to support the lazy lower-class.
But yes, I agree that Australia should not mimic the country with the worst foreign policy in the world.
I'd argue that social welfare provides a disincentive for the poor to work themselves out of the lower-class. They quite like living off Centrelink payments. Not to mention (I am in a lower-class family), the welfare system does not promote saving! If you have enough assets, you are not allowed to get payments. They don't even consider your income! Our income is less than 20k a year for the entire family (two kids and two parents) but we have great financial planning inside our family (my mum is fiscally responsible). We don't take any Centrelink payments, and frankly we're quite happy with it.
I agree with the free-market and believe that everyone can work themselves up. Economically conservative (free-market, not socialist, minimal social welfare) policies benefit everyone, even the poor.
I don't think any party is stupid enough to drastically cut spending on education, and I don't believe exorbitant amounts of spending in education is necessary anyway. The system just needs a push by competition. Extra funding will go to waste (sports facilities, drama schools, etc.), if public schools know that kids will continue going to their schools. Remove "zoning" rules, remove information asymmetry (release ALL results and data about schools) and watch kids flock to better schools, then we'll actually see public schools improve (because they finally have an incentive to do so... otherwise they will continue to get students due to stupid rules like "zoning").
Teacher unions need to be broken down. I'm sure we all know we've been through crap and good teachers. The injustice is that crap teachers must be paid equally to the good teachers in public education. How does this encourage greater learning? Labor is the party that will allow teacher unions to gain even more power, and hence lower the standards of the education system even more!
Sure, socialism encourages equal outcomes for all, but they are the equally
worst outcomes for all.
However, I don't think Liberal is the correct party to vote to promote free-market libertarianism. The criticisms of the "capitalists" in right-wing economics are not completely unfounded. There will be poverty gaps increasing, and an increase in inequality, but that is due to the unnecessary bureaucracies in place that similarly support special interests. A good example of this is the Republican neo-conservative stance, which is typically considered "right-wing" but is really for big government and socialism within the country, while trying to enforce "free-market" (in the loosest sense of the term) in every other country to reap the benefits of their resources.
I'm also unimpressed by the lack of parties that are providing a strong stance on civil liberties. We know we still live in a primitive society when people are self-righteous enough to believe we should prevent gay couples from marrying. What is their problem?
We need a more radical party (than Liberal) that will make changes to government to play a more minimal role in our lives, and let people decide how to run their own businesses, and more importantly, our lives.
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