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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

When is a tax not a tax?

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The American Government’s Department of Agriculture, commonly called the USDA, has just announced that they will delay a decision on putting a 15 cent levy on the sale of live, or what we’d call fresh cut Christmas trees until after their next Presidential election.

Now you can easily be forgiven thinking that 15 cents per tree doesn’t sound like a lot of money, and I mention this because of similarities between the way our Carbon Tax is being sold to Australians.

In 2007 Americans bought 31 Million fresh cut trees for Christmas but that was down 6 million trees from 1991 so the various industry groups have come up with this plan in conjunction with the government.

The USDA calls it a consumer levy that is to be charged by the industry to create a new $2million industry body to advertise and promote the live fresh cut tress over artificial trees.

They will continue spin this as an industry body charging a small fee, but this is actually the USDA imposing a 15 cent tax to create a new government department.

If you multiply 15 cents by 31 million trees you quickly realise that someone is actually collecting more than 4 point 6 million dollars

So it is not a tax, and it is good for the people?


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I’m Michael Robinson

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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Flat Earth Science Fails Modern Societies



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Today lets look back at the Flat Earth Societies of the past as a precautionary warning.

It was a time when the prevailing schools of scientists said that they had proved that the world was flat and the sun and stars revolved around the earth.

Today many scientists will say they are so advanced that they cannot fall into the same dangers and errors of scientific thinking that had the world believing that the earth was flat when it clearly wasn’t.

Then they make the same mistake and claim that anyone who dares to question them is a heretic who should be banished from the world of modern science.

That isn’t science it is a false religion.


Two things have caused it.  


The pursuit of money over truth

and the inability of independent scientists to openly raise questions when the facts contradict the government’s policies and rhetoric.

Like the flat earth society many scientists promote the beliefs of the modern day flat earth society because they are told they must.


Does that make it true?

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I’m Michael Robinson


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Yesterday this issue was raised at the National Press Club by Alan Jones (yes he's from another station but apart from that)
http://www.npc.org.au/speakerarchive/alan-jones.html







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I've known them for a long time and always been impressed by them. 

Bow Bow Plumbing brings a work ethic to the job that we need
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