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?

Turn It Up

I’m Michael Robinson

Links

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-11-10/news/30381385_1_national-christmas-tree-association-15-cent-tax-merry-christmas

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204224604577028364218075668.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,840461,00.html

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A No Responsibility Government Spins It Again

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Last week it was hard to miss. The Prime Minister’s award winning attempt at the world’s greatest spin.  Hot on the heels of the Government’s back slapping love-in

-over  passing the Carbon Tax legislation (*see note below)

- the Federal Government cut short the celebrations and then introduced legislation to the lower house that it knew would not pass.

It was obvious why.

They get hammered every time they  talk about the Carbon Tax.

So politically it was time to take attention off the carbon tax.

But we should not forget that when Julia Gillard became Prime Minister she told the Governor General that she could form government and work with the parliament that had been elected.

Then last week Julia Gillard told us that she was a victim of the Opposition doing what oppositions do.  She wanted Australians to know that  ...

... this government is a government of no responsibility that does not recognise reality and it is all Tony Abbott’s fault.

Turn It Up
I’m Michael Robinson


* = it’s ability to work through a major reform with the minor parties and independents

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