aussie carbon tax ( Archived) (13)

WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP !!!!!
even the greens when you look at it dont give a dam
if so why is over logging not mentioned,
sold to china
made in china
sold in australia

it is doing nothing, thats the point,
theres nothing invented in the world to solve the problem,
so how can i have a better proposal,
struggling toward a goal..... there goal is to try and stay in power, thats it.
lets try throwing money left right and centre,
never worked for any thing else but.
wait a sec thats what they are doing

The same issue has been much debated here in the States, and I have heard much the same objections. To me they all seem to boil down to "Why should I pay, if it won't work right away?"

Despite the memorable rhyme, I find that short-sighted and selfish. Humans didn't pollute the Earth overnight, so we can't clean it up overnight. Those of us who began polluting it earlier, and took advantage of the situation, should recognize that and work toward a compromise with those who are only beginning to do so, and want to take advantage just as we did.

All of our unborn great-grandchildren do not yet know what nation they will be born as citizens of. Would you pay an additional tax if you knew for sure it went to the care of your own great-grandchild, but not if went to someone else's?

Of course.

Goobal warming due to CO2 is a total lie.
A politically driven scam to rob the entire world and install global government.

There are genuine pollution issues in the world that need to be addressed, but taxing CO2 will not do anything about those. It will simply rob the poor to make the rich a lot richer.

Specialize in taking partial quotes out of context, do you?

I've heard of people who do that before. They're called "weasels."

Australia used to have a democracy with elected members of parliament representing the voters concerns. Today we have a Prime Minister babbling on and on expressing her personal thoughts on climate change and to bring in a new tax grab in its name.
There are lots of people proclaiming they know what the future climate change will entail.
Australia coming out of a 12 year drought, so now some proclaim the ocean will rise one and half meters, some even believe that politicians tell the truth, and of course know what they are doing, they care about something other than there own pay packets...

Me i think they are talking a load of crap

Carbon Tax - It's just another way for special interests to extort money, with the government being one of the greediest of the special interests.

I remember my grandmother telling me when I was a kid that they'll tax the air you breathe if the could figure out a way to meter it. This amounts to the same thing - a new, creative way to steal.

I would not worry about it.
Just because Prime Ministers Bob, Kevin, Julie and the two independent Prime Ministers and that mad Prime Minister in Hobart, and the 'Faceless' Prime Ministers of labor think they can get it through does not mean that it will go through.

Why?

Because Prime Minister Tony is going to win the next election by a landslide, before the carbon tax can be imposed and if the outgoing Labor senators give enough seats in the senate to the Liberals then the tax will be dead in the water.

If the greens still control the senate and reject the cancellation of the coming tax then Tony will say 'Time for the opportunity that Julia didn't give Australians - to vote on the carbon tax properly'.

Then it will be a double dissolution election, just after the first, out will go the greens and finally...We will be back to having one Prime Minister.

What is really sad is that I know Labor voters who voted independents last election because they were angry at Julia. This time they are SO angry at Julia that they are voting for the Liberals. Why? not to help the Liberals but to save Labor from its current leader and current front benchers and to start rebuilding in opposition.