How much are all the different state business regulations costing them and us?
The Business Council of Australia printed 182 page report in 2006 on the costs to Australian business of having 7 sets of business regulations in australia. One company said it spent 4 million dollars a year on complying with all the different state laws. If you just times that by our largest 3000 companies – that is 12 billion a year cost just in the private sector and its only a small % of the total private sector. These extra costs are passed onto other businesses and consumers like you and me in the form of higher prices. 19. We won’t have to vote at as many elections- this is not a good thing. Voting is an important part of a democracy. The idea that we can elect three levels of government in free and fair elections is what makes us different from places like China, Burma, Iran, Saudi Arabia (I can go on for ages). Anything that takes away our ability to make political decisions is not something I feel comfortable with.
