If it quacks like a duck… it's a tax
Ah, yes, the old excuses are the best. If anyone disagrees with your policy, just say the public are too ignorant to properly understand it, and that all that’s necessary is better “communication”. Such is the arrogance of Labor that is believes it is beyond criticism, so when the public go ape because their Prime Minister has lied to them about a carbon tax in order to get elected, they go into self-deluding rationalisation strategies – in other words, we’re right and the public are just a bunch of stupid bogans. Charming.
AUSTRALIANS are confused by the government’s carbon tax plan, Acting Prime Minister Wayne Swan admits.
Mr Swan has tried to downplay concerns about the proposal to cut pollution, saying the scheme would not operate like a “traditional tax”.
He said a “traditional tax” would take money from Australians’ pay packets, while the government’s scheme would take money from big businesses.
Opposition leader Tony Abbott was quick to match the Treasurer’s spin with his own, saying if it “acts like a tax … it is a tax”. (source)
Swan is desperately trying to spin the Labor government and himself out of trouble by claiming that this is a tax on “polluters” [what type of pollution is carbon dioxide again? – Ed], but carefully avoiding the fact that the “polluters” will pass on the tax to their consumers in the form of increased prices. Otherwise, why would there be a need for bewilderingly complex “compensation schemes” for individuals? Sorry Wayne, doesn’t wash.
Australian Climate Madness 
So the government is making it illegal for big business to pass on the cost of the tax to ordinary Australians? If not, I’m certainly not “confused” and their words are empty
Heard this on the radio yesterday, nearly crashed the car.
So, traditional taxes are the ones that come out of your paypacket?
Funny, I seem to remember paying something called a GST on just about everything I buy. But it’s not listed on any paypackets. Must be called a Goods and Services Tithe.
The good news is the news Wayne Swan has joined the sell. That means it is doomed for certain.
Gillard and Swan have sold Griffin Mine in WA to an INDIAN COMPANY – they want to tax us on carbon dioxide but are quite happy to sell our Coal Mines…where was the Foreign Investment Review Board on this and why DID THEY NOT BLOCK THIS SALE?
“Communication” in this case is simply code for more Socialist “education” or put bluntly – more socialist BRAINWASHING with taxpayer funded propaganda. (with the ever faithful ABC unquestioningly leading the charge of course – no prodding needed with them at all)
We simply MUST be trained in the “collective consciousness” of the Gaian mind.
There is just NO room in the pinko world for diversity of thought.
Ha….little wonder this movement is so despised..
It’s appalling to hear Treasurer Wayne Swan discussing the carbon (dioxide) tax. Is he really that naive to think that the tax on the so called “polluters” will not be passed on to consumers? He’s the Treasurer, for god sake… and its a basic business practice… something every Treasurer ordinarily knows. But then, Swan has never been fit to be Treasurer. After three years as Treasurer, he still doesn’t know how to ‘talk the talk’, and therefore he will never be able to ‘walk the walk’ when it comes to discussing things economic.