[BITList] carbon tax - a few facts.

[franka]

 >
 > A friend of mine in New Zealand sent me a copy of an invoice for 2 x
 > 45 kg cylinders of LPG he uses for cooking etc. He was charged 0.3750
 > cents per kilogram carbon tax for the gas. I bet the company producing
 > and refining the gas also paid that amount. Not much really, $3.38.
 > But when you charge it to 4 different accounts and add it to the GST,
 > it sure becomes a good little earner for the government. Our
 > government tells us that the idea of a carbon tax is to wean us off
 > all the nasties that are pumping that killer gas carbon dioxide into
 > the atmosphere ( remember the 1/100,000 of 1%). Question for el
 > stupido redhead, hellooooooo, just what the hell are we supposed to
 > use to cook our food when the power companies will be ripping the guts
 > out of the public with their nasty rate increases also? Can't go
 > chopping down trees and lighting fires or we will have corpse
 > impersonator and real PM of Australia Bob Brown all over us.
 >
 > Now as our government is making it up as they go along, we don't know
 > how much they intend to charge for a carbon tax, but at a modest $20 /
 > $25 dollars per tonne, will equate to 6 cents a litre for fuel and
 > electricity up by about $300 per annum. This is guess work at the
 > moment. The government is not saying if fuel will be included but one
 > of the big mouth greens and that dopey oakshotte have already let the
 > cat out of the bag. Oh, and don't forget, once the carbon taxes are
 > added to your purchase, you then pay extra GST on it. Very comforting.
 > Ya' gotta remember people our current debt is $184 billion dollars and
 > that darn money has to come from somewhere.
 >
 > Juliar has promised us a whole new world powered by environmentally
 > friendly jobs etc - a dream come true. Just ask any Spaniard. For
 > every green job created in Spain when they decided to embrace mother
 > nature, it cost 2.4 normal jobs Germany is held up as the shining
 > light in the EU as the way to go. Each green job in Germany costs the
 > taxpayer approximately 900,000 USD. Look it up. All info freely
 > available on the internet. A green job in Scotland costs over 4 normal
 > jobs. The boss of the AWU recently stated when asked if he would
 > support a carbon tax, "If it costs one Australian job, we will not
 > support it." Considering he was one of the turkeys that gave us Juliar
 > Gillard I imagine he is shittin' his britches right about now. I
 > actually heard that interview on 2GB in Sydney.
 >
 > The government has also said they will consider the not so well off
 > with tax cuts to make up for the expense of the carbon dioxide tax.
 > As most of the pensioners would not be considered well off, and don't
 > pay tax as do lots of self funded retirees, a tax break is not going
 > to reimburse them a lot is it?
 >
 > Notice that whenever possible I try to refer to it as a "carbon
 > dioxide" tax. The governmnet at the behest of their spin doctors,
 > Hawker Britton, insist on calling it a carbon tax or carbon pollution.
 > They keep up this subliminal message hoping people will associate this
 > tax with soot when it is a tax on carbon dioxide which is a colorless,
 > odorless trace gas which makes things grow. Man is responsible for
 > approximately 3% of the CO2 in the atmosphere, the other 97% is
 > naturally occuring through volcanos, mountain chains, oceans etc. So,
 > can you see how important it it that mankind quit pumping out the 3%
 > of this killer gas that they do. (Sarc).
 >
 > Sorry about the length but once I get going I get madder and madder
 > about the con being perpetrated by a bunch of money grubbing
 > politicians and businessmen.
 >
 > As usual, if you don't like it, bin it. If you do, send it on to
 > someone that might care about what is being done to our once great
 > country.
 >
 > I forgot to mention that 10% of all taxes collected in the name of
 > carbon will be sent on to the UN after our illustrious Minister Combet
 > signed an agreeement with these leeches at Cancun last year. Combet
 > even had the audacity to claim he knew nothing about this recently in
 > a radio interview. Anyway, with the 10% on the way to the UN we can
 > rest assured that their executives will continue to fly around in
 > private jets and that the likes of Robert Mugabe gets a new Roller
 > each year, with our compliments.
 >
 > By the way, anybody who doesn't really believe in man made climate
 > change has today been labelled a "climate change denier". a "global
 > warming sceptic" an "extremist" and a member of the "Ku Klux Klan" by
 > various members of the Labor party in Canberra.
 >
 > Gotta run, there's a cross burning down in the woods tonight.
 >
 > phil
 >
 >
 > Heard Gillard screaming in parliament today that the majority of
 > Australians support a carbon tax - hellooo. Why not call an election
 > and test your theory old girl?
 >
 > Saw an internet poll on the slightly left of centre Ninemsn web site
 > tonight which asked the question - Do you want a carbon tax. Yes
 > (19000) - No (90,000). Check it out yourself.

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