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The slick, well funded eco-evangelists just keep repeating the mindless propaganda. “Yippee only a few sleeps to the new irrational, useless self-harming carbon [dioxide] tax, here’s how you can help to do in slowly what little industry we have left:
And these are the enemies of our industry, prosperity, our society and your children’s future, with zero gain for the environment:
And here is their ‘facts’ sheet.
Why must we have the carbon tax? To reduce carbon dioxide emissions due to dangerous Climate Change, right?
Is there a single mention of the reason for the tax? How marvelously effective it will be for the pain? NO. Because it is completely useless!
As Mark Latham said:
“…a carbon tax is to carbon use what tobacco excise is to smoking. Imagine if the Government in the tobacco excise gave most of the money to smokers, compensated the big tobacco companies and exempted some of the brands from the tax”
Do I even need to rebut this rubbish?
1. You won’t pay… of course you will – they will pass on the costs to you – that’ll be why Labor are claiming to be compensating you in the very next column.
2. Reducing Pollution… CO2 is not pollution, no real pollution is being reduced.
3. Could create 770, 000 jobs… could also grow my balding hair, but it won’t, because this would be the first time that a tax creates jobs, other than those involved in collecting it. Multiple studies show ‘green jobs’ whatever they are, destroy more that double the number of real jobs and cost as much as $500,000 each to create. Here is the green job revolution in the US:Promises of green jobs withering on vine, and
4. EU Countries have carbon taxes… They have baby taxes compared to our Godzilla. No country on earth has an industry-wide carbon tax, EU has it only on electricity industry, EU collect only millions for 1/2 billion people, we will collect billions for 23 million people, EU is not built on resources like we are, France makes 70-80% of electricity from nuclear and exports it largely so is unaffected by the tax.
5. You will be no worse off… Do we believe that for a second? Even if Labor intended this, you can’t modify behavior relating to an essential like energy without pain, much pain (electricity prices have gone up by 50% over last few years – was there a drop in consumption? Certainly not, only a trivial change to subsidised solar costing us $300 per ton of CO2 abated and billions in total). Furthermore, Labor cannot even begin to predict the real of the tax cost and the cost of all the intended and unintended consequences.
6. New investment… yes but mainly by rent-seekers into subsidised or mandated industries. Currently, the US government wants to know where that $535 million dollar “green jobs” DOE loan went after the collapse of Solyndra.
7. Delaying action is risky and irresponsible…. if we don’t do something… or, the sky will fall is you don’t pay this tax. What little fig leaf of a science theory that existed for this global social engineering tax has all but disappeared – and isn’t this the mother of all scare campaigns rather Tony Abbott’s.
8. Australians can achieve great things… Agreed, and reversing this insane carbon tax will be the first thing we achieve.
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