Pretty much the same goes with the Aussie system as well when they 'work out' our land values and land rates.

@Triphid I think that in the US it is much more expensive than in Australia.

@Jolanta Yes, but I see you reside in the 'protected' zone, aka the A.C.T.

@Triphid Protected from what? You know we pay rates here just like everybody else in Australia, and no the roads are not paved with gold either.

@Jolanta I was being a bit facetious there.

@Triphid And please stop sending us those horrible, horrible politicians too, he,he.

@Jolanta Hey, we are just FORCED by law to elect those Scum-bags.

@Triphid No you are not. Don't vote for the bad ones. What kind of life do you want for yourself and your fellow men/women, do you want the rich to only profit or do you want all people to want and even distribution of resources.

@Jolanta So, how does one tell the good and decent politician/s from the rest of the mob of scumbags?

@Triphid Look at what they vote on. Don't believe the hype that newspapers or TV tell you. Media around the world is owned by just a handful of people, 70% by Murdoch.

@Jolanta Oh yeah, the Lib-Nats always vote for Tax Cuts for their 'Big End of Town' mates and the average worker, etc, gets S.F.A. BECAUSE the system is set up that way, i.e. the HIGHER your Income = the greater percentage tax cut you get, where it SHOULD REALISTICLY be ther HIGHER the Income = the less of a percentage cut you receive and the lower the income the greater the percentage you receive.
As for Labor under Bill Shortonballs, they are about as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike, they couldn't find their way out of wet paper bag even with a road map and GPS system.
Labor once, many, many moons ago that is, stood up for the Workers, Families and the Average Peoples but these days I think of them as being the Amateur Liberal Party.
The Greens are just hopeful hangers-on who, going on a few of the past performance would, imho, sell their Grandmothers IF the price was right.
It seems to me, and numerous others I've spoken with over the years, that EVERY time the Libs-Nats get into Federal Government or State Government their first and most immediate task is to re-draw the boundaries of the Voting Constituencies to suit themselves for future elections based on the numbers of favourable votes polled by Lib-Nat voters and then they simply pour in money for 'Infrastructure.' etc, to further ensure their voting status whilst anywhere further west/east/north/south ( depending upon which State you are in that is) of the 'coastal zone, i.e. 600-700kms west, etc, gets little more a few miserable crumbs, IF anything at all.
The entire Westminster based 2 Party Electoral/Government System has an odour that can only be described as being reminiscent of a Dockyard Whorehouse at a very LOW tide.

@Triphid And nowhere there did you mention anything about what they voted on or what their policies are of any of those parties. Only whining did I read. Look at the policies, don't read the papers or listen to the television. Make yourself familiar with their policies and what they voted for so far and you will find some that will suite you more than others.

@Jolanta Oh I'm so sorry that I missed mentioning their smoke and mirror policies.
IMHO, they are just carrots to dangle before the voters whilst being attached to the Party/Parties expressing them by extremely thin and weak filaments of something with the tensile strength of a Gnats Fart.

@Triphid Well, what are you going to do then when you are so disolusioed?

@Jolanta As I always do, list the Pros and Cons, weigh everything out then make my own mind up.