Sunday, 16 February 2014

Automotive industry subsidies

Sydney Morning Herald
31 January 2014
Australia faces the end of an era, with the Productivity Commission recommending the federal government stops providing financial assistance to the embattled local car industry.

While I support temporary policies to ease switching costs, indefinite state subsidisation of economically unviable industries is ultimately equivalent to using taxpayers' money to employ one person to dig a hole and another to fill it up again.

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