(August 3, 2012 at 10:03 am)popeyespappy Wrote:(August 3, 2012 at 2:55 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Australian Carbon Tax is supposedly "revenue neutral".... I am probably missing something but I fail to understand how this may help in 3-6 generations from now with compensation claims.
If understand the term revenue neutral correctly it won’t. To me revenue neutral means your government is spending all the revenue generated through carbon taxes as they are collected. In order for those funds to be available to compensate those whose property is damaged by AGW your government would have to be saving at least some portion of the funds until later.
Oh good ...thanks pappy. I thought I had that right...so then begs the question...
"If ALL revenue is to be returned to the people, facilitating a revenue neutral tax; the WHY the Fuck HAVE a tax at all?"
This is something that Aussies are grappling with and the psycho-pomp, spin doctoring is not making it any easier. And AFTER ALL that...I think 2 Billion is being REFUNDED to those industries that will pollute the most and be hurt the worst from this Tax...this is not a tax this is making bureaucracy!!
So you WILL forgive me my cynical scepticism regarding taxes and AGW mitigation??
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