RE:Chile chills on new Copper mines. How will these short-sighted socialists then pay for all their programs? Oh, yes, that's right, higher taxes. Well, UK tried doing that on N. Sea oil about 10 odd years ago and guess what happened? their overall tax take went down! Imagine that. Wonder why that was? Ah, dah!! Investments just move away and get allocated where better returns are found, simple as that. These clowns will go down the road of Venezuela and end up shooting themselves in the foot. Pro-ev, carbon blah, blah, blah politicians want this amazing new electrical energy but if no one is willing to build mines to extract the commodities needed to transition, then where in the heck do they think it's all going to come from? Just amazes me how disconnected/short-sighted some of today's policy makers are. They live in a dream world - like a kid @ University that knows all the answers; yet, not much or any of their policies are grounded in the real world. Pragmatism, what's that? To me this simply signals that long-term Cu prices et al have only one way to go, and that's up! Crazy world. Sounds like it's going to get a whole lot crazier going forward. Socialism to the rescue!! NOT