jackovesk
2nd July 2011, 06:34
Andrew Bolt: Opposition Leader Tony Abbott in an excellent speech yesterday shows what a gift a carbon tax is to a cash-hungry Big Government:
On close consideration, carbon pricing turns out to be just another pot of gold for government. It’s instructive that the International Monetary Fund has just recommended a 25per cent hike in Iceland’s carbon tax to address not an environmental problem but its fiscal crisis.
Link...
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/abbott_exposes_the_great_con/
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Address to the 2011 Economic and Social Outlook Conference, Melbourne
Friday, 1 July 2011
"Last weekend, The Australian newspaper prominently reported the head of the Business Council lamenting the current public focus on the carbon tax and the mining tax ahead of much more important reforms. Graham Bradley is right to be disappointed. Of course, the public conversation should be about measures that will make our country more prosperous; but if the only measures likely to be implemented in this term of parliament are those that will make us less prosperous these, perforce, will be the subjects that people talk about.
The Coalition, I stress, is not arguing about the carbon tax and the mining tax because we choose to. We’re talking about them because that’s what the government has placed top of the national agenda and because the most positive thing that an opposition can do is stop a bad government from making people’s lives worse.
The Coalition has had much to say about welfare reform and will have more to say about workplace reform once the field evidence is in. As long as we are in opposition, though, and an election is supposed to be at least two years off, our most constructive contribution to public debate is to establish beyond doubt that the current government is a threat to our prosperity and that the current government’s so-called reforms are no such thing.
It’s only when an incumbent’s signature policies evoke derision from all but its most rusted-on supporters that an opposition can fully focus on being an alternative government and that’s far from the case with the carbon tax especially when so much business commentary still begins with the observation that “we support a carbon price…”
The Coalition’s fundamental contention is that the unilateral imposition of a carbon price will put Australia at a competitive disadvantage compared to countries which are taking no such action. Contrary to the government’s repeated assertions, there are no countries – none – that are planning to impose an economy wide carbon price, as the Productivity Commission has just confirmed. In the absence of comparable international action, an Australian carbon tax will damage our economy without helping the environment which is why it can’t be fixed; it just has to be fought.
Before the last election both the Prime Minister and the Treasurer made explicit commitments to the Australian people not to proceed with a carbon tax. Their justification for trying to introduce one, despite these unequivocal pledges, is that Australia risks being “left behind” and not doing its “fair share.” Recent presentations by the Prime Minister and the Treasurer have been littered with these phrases – despite the Productivity Commission’s explicit finding that Australia’s existing emissions abatement, without a carbon tax, is currently in the “mid-range” of the countries it studied.
Since the collapse of the 2009 Copenhagen conference, all the movement internationally has been away from any form of binding commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Prime Minister frequently claims that that China is shutting down coal-fired power generation facilities “at the rate of one every one or two weeks”. What she doesn’t say is that they’re just replacing old and inefficient coal-fired power stations with newer and bigger ones – dramatically increasing the amount of coal they burn and the emissions they produce year in, year out.
Over the five years to 2009, China’s actual increase in carbon dioxide emissions was about 2,500 million tonnes per annum and I stress that these figures are from the Garnaut Report, not from Lord Monckton, and over the 10 years to 2020, Professor Garnaut projects these emissions to rise by a further 6,000 million tonnes per annum. To put this in perspective, the proposed decrease in Australian emissions over the decade is about 50millions tonnes per annum – so the increase in Chinese emissions alone is expected to be over 100 times as large as our reduction, on top of an increase 50 times as large that’s already taken place.
If you want you can Read the rest of the Speech here...
http://www.tonyabbott.com.au/LatestNews/Speeches/tabid/88/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/8162/Address-to-the-2011-Economic-and-Social-Outlook-Conference-Melbourne.aspx?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
PS - Before you all start attacking me for posting this, let it be known I STILL DON'T TRUST the Monarchist Tony Abbott but boy he really exposes some TRUTHS here!
The Question is? Is it just more Political Rhetoric cloaked behind the Crown Monarchy he so lovingly worships?
My Bottom Line PREDICTION:
Read this Very Carefully!
Gillard Lies & Brings in Carbon Tax
Greens press for Greater Carbon Price
LNP says its just another Great Big 'New Tax'
Public Slow to 'Wake Up' but majority is now dead against Carbon Tax
Gillard continues to Lie and together with the Greens & Independents push on
LNP uses Public Opinion to its advantage to Counteract Gillards Green Lies
Post July 1 - 2011
Greens have majority in the Senate (6 New Green Senators with 6 yr terms)
Bob Brown says in NO WAY will he let LNP rescind Carbon Tax if they win next election
Post 2013 Federal Election
LNP ins in an 'Historical Landslide' in 2013 Federal Election
LNP Now have a Mandate to rescind Carbon Tax
Bob Brown reinforces his statement made at Nationa Press Club Speech 2011
"NO WAY will he let LNP rescind Carbon Tax if they win next election"
The Battle begins - Massive MSM Coverage and Debate
Conclusion
LNP cannot rescind Carbon Tax due to the Greens majority in the Senate
Tony Abbott goes on National TV saying we tried our best but Unforntnately we are Stuck with the Carbon Tax! or a 'Fake Comprimise' by morphing the 'Carbon Tax' into the world's first economy-wide ETS sooner rather than later!
The TRUTH
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f157/87snowfox/GIF/animated-finger.gif
FU Australia we NWO Globalists & Monarchist Screwed YOU ALL again Big Time on this one, the Joke is on YOU!
:pound: :pound: :pound:
Very Sad, But True..! Unless a Miracle or the Australian Public really do Wake Up & Fight!!!
On close consideration, carbon pricing turns out to be just another pot of gold for government. It’s instructive that the International Monetary Fund has just recommended a 25per cent hike in Iceland’s carbon tax to address not an environmental problem but its fiscal crisis.
Link...
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/abbott_exposes_the_great_con/
http://www.tonyabbott.com.au/Portals/0/Banners/LatestNews.jpg
Address to the 2011 Economic and Social Outlook Conference, Melbourne
Friday, 1 July 2011
"Last weekend, The Australian newspaper prominently reported the head of the Business Council lamenting the current public focus on the carbon tax and the mining tax ahead of much more important reforms. Graham Bradley is right to be disappointed. Of course, the public conversation should be about measures that will make our country more prosperous; but if the only measures likely to be implemented in this term of parliament are those that will make us less prosperous these, perforce, will be the subjects that people talk about.
The Coalition, I stress, is not arguing about the carbon tax and the mining tax because we choose to. We’re talking about them because that’s what the government has placed top of the national agenda and because the most positive thing that an opposition can do is stop a bad government from making people’s lives worse.
The Coalition has had much to say about welfare reform and will have more to say about workplace reform once the field evidence is in. As long as we are in opposition, though, and an election is supposed to be at least two years off, our most constructive contribution to public debate is to establish beyond doubt that the current government is a threat to our prosperity and that the current government’s so-called reforms are no such thing.
It’s only when an incumbent’s signature policies evoke derision from all but its most rusted-on supporters that an opposition can fully focus on being an alternative government and that’s far from the case with the carbon tax especially when so much business commentary still begins with the observation that “we support a carbon price…”
The Coalition’s fundamental contention is that the unilateral imposition of a carbon price will put Australia at a competitive disadvantage compared to countries which are taking no such action. Contrary to the government’s repeated assertions, there are no countries – none – that are planning to impose an economy wide carbon price, as the Productivity Commission has just confirmed. In the absence of comparable international action, an Australian carbon tax will damage our economy without helping the environment which is why it can’t be fixed; it just has to be fought.
Before the last election both the Prime Minister and the Treasurer made explicit commitments to the Australian people not to proceed with a carbon tax. Their justification for trying to introduce one, despite these unequivocal pledges, is that Australia risks being “left behind” and not doing its “fair share.” Recent presentations by the Prime Minister and the Treasurer have been littered with these phrases – despite the Productivity Commission’s explicit finding that Australia’s existing emissions abatement, without a carbon tax, is currently in the “mid-range” of the countries it studied.
Since the collapse of the 2009 Copenhagen conference, all the movement internationally has been away from any form of binding commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Prime Minister frequently claims that that China is shutting down coal-fired power generation facilities “at the rate of one every one or two weeks”. What she doesn’t say is that they’re just replacing old and inefficient coal-fired power stations with newer and bigger ones – dramatically increasing the amount of coal they burn and the emissions they produce year in, year out.
Over the five years to 2009, China’s actual increase in carbon dioxide emissions was about 2,500 million tonnes per annum and I stress that these figures are from the Garnaut Report, not from Lord Monckton, and over the 10 years to 2020, Professor Garnaut projects these emissions to rise by a further 6,000 million tonnes per annum. To put this in perspective, the proposed decrease in Australian emissions over the decade is about 50millions tonnes per annum – so the increase in Chinese emissions alone is expected to be over 100 times as large as our reduction, on top of an increase 50 times as large that’s already taken place.
If you want you can Read the rest of the Speech here...
http://www.tonyabbott.com.au/LatestNews/Speeches/tabid/88/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/8162/Address-to-the-2011-Economic-and-Social-Outlook-Conference-Melbourne.aspx?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
PS - Before you all start attacking me for posting this, let it be known I STILL DON'T TRUST the Monarchist Tony Abbott but boy he really exposes some TRUTHS here!
The Question is? Is it just more Political Rhetoric cloaked behind the Crown Monarchy he so lovingly worships?
My Bottom Line PREDICTION:
Read this Very Carefully!
Gillard Lies & Brings in Carbon Tax
Greens press for Greater Carbon Price
LNP says its just another Great Big 'New Tax'
Public Slow to 'Wake Up' but majority is now dead against Carbon Tax
Gillard continues to Lie and together with the Greens & Independents push on
LNP uses Public Opinion to its advantage to Counteract Gillards Green Lies
Post July 1 - 2011
Greens have majority in the Senate (6 New Green Senators with 6 yr terms)
Bob Brown says in NO WAY will he let LNP rescind Carbon Tax if they win next election
Post 2013 Federal Election
LNP ins in an 'Historical Landslide' in 2013 Federal Election
LNP Now have a Mandate to rescind Carbon Tax
Bob Brown reinforces his statement made at Nationa Press Club Speech 2011
"NO WAY will he let LNP rescind Carbon Tax if they win next election"
The Battle begins - Massive MSM Coverage and Debate
Conclusion
LNP cannot rescind Carbon Tax due to the Greens majority in the Senate
Tony Abbott goes on National TV saying we tried our best but Unforntnately we are Stuck with the Carbon Tax! or a 'Fake Comprimise' by morphing the 'Carbon Tax' into the world's first economy-wide ETS sooner rather than later!
The TRUTH
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f157/87snowfox/GIF/animated-finger.gif
FU Australia we NWO Globalists & Monarchist Screwed YOU ALL again Big Time on this one, the Joke is on YOU!
:pound: :pound: :pound:
Very Sad, But True..! Unless a Miracle or the Australian Public really do Wake Up & Fight!!!