1)Hmm, so taking the money off private schools won't give us enough money to properly fund an excellent public system (like Finland has and they, not coincidently, have the best performing schools in the world). Ok, fine, I have a solution. Not only are private schools subsidised for no good reason, they also get their curriculum for free, charge them for it.
2)Now, I may be wrong about this, but, when a company buys a piece of machinery I would assume that cost of the machine, when purchased, comes off their bottom line. So, for example, if BHP buys a truck for $100,000, that $100,000 is an expense which reduces their profit and therefore their taxable income for the year they spent the money. Is that the case or do they not get to include capital expenditure in their reporting of profit/loss for a year?
3)The one thing the government should do is to get rid of the tax cuts which the LNP passed and the ALP waved through. Those tax cuts massively benefit the very well off and the rest of us get little benefit. If I was them I would have already done this, ridiculous tax cut.
4)I would think Venezuela is hardly a comparable country to Australia. In any case, if you reckon nationalising is bad, how about privatisation? It has been a complete clusterfuck, how are your power bills going now with the inherently efficient and just stupendously wonderful privatised utilities? Yeah, great move that.
DS