MARK M ALDRIDGE Independent - Carbon Tax lies lies and lies
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Dear Friends on the land, and in the
Australian community
The Gillard Labor government is hell-bent on destroying what
generations of Australians and farmers have worked for and is doing so in the
name of a regressive carbon tax that ordinary Australians have been denied a
say on, considering it can easily be said the people voted Not to have the tax.
This week the warning bells farmers and regional communities just rang even
louder, nby way of the words we did not need to hear.
Labor’s chief climate advisor Professor Ross Garnaut exploded the government’s
myth that only the big polluters will pay, confirming in his own words:‘Australian households will, ultimately, bear the full cost of a carbon
price.’
His final report, released this week, exposed the plan to fully include
agriculture in the carbon tax regime from as early as 2015, overseas nations
have already found the tax not only wanting, but with continued increase is the
very emissions it is said to reduce.
Australian farmers have been promised for years that their direct emissions
will be excluded under a carbon regime. Now, in the final stages of a deal with
the Greens and a hand full of sell out Independents, it appears all bets are
off.
Farmers are now squarely in this government’s carbon tax sights. Prof Garnaut’s
report says:
‘The proposed date for inclusion of New Zealand agriculture (2015) is a
good time for a review of whether circumstances have changed enough for
Australia to have full coverage of the land sector.’