Lead B., the thirst for votes is our major hope. It took more than 40 years to get the Berlin Wall down and no one saw that coming.
Thatcher revolutioned how Britain does business and set that country on a pathway to much greater prosperity, and no one saw that coming.
Unfortunately with privatisation all the rage some bright spark in government thought up Government Business Enterprises (GBEs) and coupled that with ‘user pays.’ Such monopolies, illegal in the real world and enterprising only in the sense of finding new ways of extorting fees from a reeling aviation industry, dropped the GBE title as too pointedly a deceptive ploy.
There’s no alternative but to continue to put the case, the current trajectory is costing the Commonwealth untold $millions in forgone taxation receipts far in excess of the fees gouged out of the declining GA industry. This factor goes to the deficit problem quite apart from the direct disadvantages succinctly put by Jongster, and, not to be overlooked, our freedom to pursue happiness.
Its an obligation, our civic duty, to state a case.