Why it’s time Goldstein sent “Tiny” Tim Wilson into the wilderness

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The electorate of Goldstein will surely turf “Tiny” Tim Wilson come May.

It is not because of his record of anti-science, anti-climate change hysteria, although that will upset some.

Nor is it because he happily campaigned for same-sex marriage and then tied the knot himself. But when the nation’s sleaze cults aimed to make legal the persecution of gay and trans kids, he voted for it. Although that will irk some.

Nor is it because he’s just assaulted the intelligence of the electorate by lying about the legality of his independent challenger’s signage. Although it will bother some that Wilson has turned to self-serving bullying over freedom of political expression:

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Nor is it because he’s just defamed other independent candidates around the country campaigning for integrity in parliament as if he is above the law. Though that will anger some.

The reason why Goldstein should send “Tiny” Tim into the wilderness is much simpler than any of these glaring hypocrisies.

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It is this. As lifelong taxpayers, why should the good people of Goldstein subsidise the salary of a bloke that vociferously declares himself a “libertarian” while spending his entire working life inside the sheltered workshop of politics?

Throughout “Tiny” Tim’s career at the IPA, his parachute drop into the HRC, and royal appointment as an MP, he has been fastened upon the taxpayer tit like some immovable socialist barnacle.

This is little more than a form of extravagant dole bludging that befits no man of freedom.

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So, as a mercy, as an act of tough love, it is time that Goldstein sends “Tiny” Tim into the jungle of freedom to slay his first lion. He must pass through his libertarian right of passage by standing on his own two feet. To start a business, invent a widget, render a service or build a better mousetrap. To do whatever it takes to walk the walk of freedom as a man, not a pen-pushing public parasite.

For unless and until “Tiny” Tim is forced to give objective life to his views on liberty, he can never truly represent the capital class of Goldstein that did traverse the jungle of freedom to make good.

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.