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Lucky we mined the soil of all it's nutrients by 1980. In theory, all those nutrients farmers took out for free should have been taxed too. It's all just crazy. Why don't they tax me for the rain that falls on my land then. I get 6.7 million tonnes of water fall on my farm, or 6.7 billion...

Yep. I can see lots of little tiny family gravel operations simply shutting down, or at least they will at first, then prices would rise, and then they'd start up again, with the consumer then footing the bill. See ya's.

I wasn't going to reply to this thread, as I've said everything already. Any way, listening to the governments spin yesterday, all they could say over and over is, "The miners can afford it". Yes they can afford it. They are making a profit, a big profit. So they can afford it. But...