My pay rise and your petrol charges

[Swoop]

IM sure they have some nice looking candidates to vote for.....

There is certainly no evidence to support that proposition.
Perhaps they could start by using soap?

[mashman]

On balance, I'll suck up the petrol tax increase in preference to the "set printing presses to infinity" economic policy proposed by the Greens and about to be implemented in Japan...

@printing presses... coz QE or CE or whatever mechanism is used to currently allow money to be printed without economic turmoil is oh so different. We can print money because govts have printed some bonds/assets. So, we print money from thin air because the bonds/assets that have also been "printed" from thin air have a value that negates/offsets the thin air money printing economic turmoil trap. A rose by any other name would be just as stupid.