You've just made a LOT of new friends
Gong for the most blindingly obvious statement about the carbon [dioxide] tax goes to Lara Giddings, who tactlessly speaks the truth when Gillard, Combet et al are spinning their way up their own backsides. No Prime Ministerial Christmas card for you this year, Miss Giddings, methinks:
Tasmania’s Labor Premier Lara Giddings says a carbon tax will push up living costs and unfairly inflict economic pain on her state despite it already having more renewable energy than other states.
The federal government insists its compensation measures will help cushion households from steep price rises.
“You’d have your head in the sand to say there aren’t going to be cost of living increases,” Ms Giddings told ABC Radio on Monday.
“That’s not fair.”
It certainly isn’t, but delusional Combet isn’t having a bar of it:
Federal Climate Change Minister Greg Combet rejected the suggestion, arguing compensation measures for pensioners and low-income households would act as a cushion. [What about the rest of the population? – Ed]
“I don’t expect any significant impact on the overall cost of living out of our carbon price mechanism once we’ve done all our final work [please, my aching sides – Ed]. But, we will ensure that whatever that may be, we will assist households cope with that price impact,” he told reporters on Monday. (source)
Which I guess means they’ll be emitting the same amount of carbon dioxide, then? Total horse-shit, Greg. Sorry. Never thought I’d find myself agreeing with a Labor state premier, but in this case, Lara’s right on the money.
Australian Climate Madness 
Going to cushion the impact. So instead of costing a whole lot it is going to cost something less than a whole lot.
Well thanks for that Greg.
I didn’t even know who the premier of Tasmania was. Does Labor have any male leaders left? Looks like discrimination there to me. Or perhaps the bait-and-switch with Beattie to Bligh worked so well every other branch of the Labor party decided to implement the policy.
(ps. dear sensitive people. the discrimination thing was a joke)
He doesn’t expect any significant impact on the overall cost of living???
The bleeding obvious question here is – how does taking money from people in tax then giving it back in assistance make them consume less and reduce their carbon (dioxide) emissions?
Am I missing something here?
Isn’t this about changing the way people consume?
I must be going mad…
Why the hell don’t they just come clean and say it like it is – like Edenhofer?
This has sweet f/a to do with reducing “carbon pollution” and EVERYTHING to do with wealth redistribution.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/11/18/un-ipcc-official-we-redistribute-worlds-wealth-climate-policy
The Khmer Rouge emptied whole cities of people in their socialism madness. they believed “Salvation lied inthe fields” and “cities were places where parasites called the elite and merchants lived” . The Khmer believed that we needed to get back to nature in small self sustaining villages, presumably scratching about in the dust and trying to stay alive.
The whole green thing is nothing more than eco-Communism.
How the f*ck people cant recognise that is utterly beyond me.
Time to just call the green movement what it is – COMMMUNISM.
Gillard is a Fabian Socialist and a known communist.
Brown might as well be addressed as “Comrade”
Spot on!
The inner city luvvies are too blind to see they’re self destructing.
Blinded by their own trendy beliefs….
LD they probably did not expect to burn peoples homes down with their insolation scheme.
Isn’t the whole *point* of the carbon tax to push up the cost of living, so we emit less carbon?
If we end up compensating industry, low income earners and by the time all this is over, just about everyone else, aren’t we just back where we started?
Except we have another huge bureaucracy to run it all, of course.
No no no, there *has* to be winners and losers with this scheme… What was the point of all of this again?
It is called socialism aka redistribution of wealth. The high income earners will pay the tax while the government subsidizes the middle and lower income earners (as you’ve said; another huge bureaucracy to run it all).
Australia My heart pains for you, you sure have you fill of Enrviro nut jobs wacko’s. What has happened to Aus? “where women glow and men plunder” It seem the Government’s are on an endless plunder of it’s Citizens. I think the Somalian pirates might have more heart and common sense than the average politician these day’s.
But cheer up the alarmist in California and the UK are alive and well with scary movies and death by a thousand never ending disaster’s, that have all strangely happened before the Industrial age, but are coming back with new titles like: The ARKSTORM WILL DESTROY CALIFORNIA AGAIN!
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/03/07/more-on-arksto
Or the GREAT FLOOD WILL INUNDATE THE UK
http://co2insanity.com/2011/03/07/british-government-waste-on-science-fiction/
It prompted me to comment:
Ted says:
March 7, 2011 at 7:23 pm
That’s It, that lousy CO2 is to blame!
I’m going to stop drinking anything with CO2 in it. As an ex-pat Brit I’m going to go back to drink flat ,warm bitter ale from the once Great Briton. I’m practicing now with a scowl on my face at the awful prospect. I’ll miss my delicious ice cold micro brewed beers but we all have to sacrifice.
Wait a minute did the alarmist say the the storm of 1861-62, what the hell! it obviously had F### All to do with CO2. Oh well, back to my well stocked beer fridge for a super cold Sleemans Honey brown Ale!
Cheers, here’s to Warmist every where, your all off your rockers but the mini movie was really goooooood..
Funny how Combet (aka The Minister for Turn off the lights) and his mob are calling it everything but the obvious, namely a tax.
Combet is a useless labor unionist male appendage lookalike whose active braincells can most likely be counted on fingers of one hand.
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, especially in hands of such an idiot of megalithic proportion. That’s what one gets from unelected bunch of retarded layabouts in association with pseudo scientists such as Garnaut providing neccessary clout of seriousness to lies dished out by left media to the masses out there. What a disaster for Australian workers who predominantly will end up paying for it all.