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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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Thursday, October 6, 2011

Is expert support above conflicts of interest?


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Earlier this week I read a rather interesting article in the Sydney Morning Herald about some Scientists and economists who have given the Prime Minister’s Carbon Pricing Legislation the, so called, thumbs up.

On closer examination not everything is as it seems and it is worth closer examination into the many reasons such experts might support the Prime Minister’s version of Socialistic Wealth Redistribution.

I call it that because, well frankly, that is what it is.

The question tLenore Taylor, well respected National Affairs Correspondent failed to examine in the article was whether or not those backing the scheme have any actual or potential conflicts of interests.  They could be things like:

- Scientists who don’t support government policy will not get government grants and do not get their paper’s published and their universities do not get additional funding which means they don’t have a job.

Now some people might say that expert scientists and economists are above such conflicts of interest and would never stoop to allowing their views or opinions to be bought or influenced in such a way.

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