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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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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Science of the future is not infallible

Good Morning Di,

(we are with Di this week and next while Grant takes a well deserved break) http://www.2sm.com.au/presenters.html)


While the Prime Minister has been talking up the need for Australians to move forward and forget the political promises she made to them at the last election
and has broken since...

… One issue in the whole climate debate issue sticks out like a sore thumb,

. . . and that is the implied infallibility of the government scientists to predict the future.

For all the talk about science, and scientists saying this thing or that, this one thing isn’t being closely scrutinised.



But it is the one thing any credible scientist should be pointing out.
The data they have collected is always going to be incomplete, there are many variables they don’t even know about let along have considered in their modelling.



That is why scientists make certain assumptions and, sometimes they are wrong.

Their data and their assumptions get put into a computer model, and we are supposed to just accept that the government’s scientists are perfect, and that their modelling is perfect and that their calculations predictions and indeed that the Australian government’s scientists themselves are  infallible...



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UNDERSTANDING BAR-STOOL ECONOMICS AND THE CARBON TAX
http://turnitupmike.blogspot.com/2011/03/bar-stool-carbon-tax-economic-modelling.html





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more of in the business world.

If you have need for a commercial plumber, check them out.