What is this thing called carbon tax?

[motomaniac]

Now that was a relief… I woke up this morning and the sun was still shining. The end of the world didn't arrive as predicted… 
I might just go outside and smell the CO².

and the good serf's will be paying their penance to high priests and lords for as long as the sun shines.

[mx250]

I thought the response to the P.M.s  C T plan by the mad monk was pathetic.
 Instead of any proper critique of the thing all he did was go on with the same old rubbishing talk without any definitive critisism.
 

I couldn't agree more .

The Mad Monk's solution is to grow more trees . God helps us. Is this guy serious, is this the depth of thinking within the Liberal Party?. Lord help us.

[Marc.com]

and the good serf's will be paying their penance to high priests and lords for as long as the sun shines.
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Pretty sad when paying the fine looks like a better alternative than voting for the current candidates, still may be stirred into exercising my democratic right and voting for the other team.

[Curly3]

BLAHHHHDY BLOODY BLAH BLAH BLAH.
Are we still going on about this, 15 pages in one week and nothing directly related to old bikes.
If it was the other way round Labor would be bagging it if they thought they'd score a points decision.
At the end of the day it aint gunna change the world one iota, just give whoever's in power more of an excuse to pick our pockets.
We're over-governed and that's by imbiciles.

[Marc.com]

Well last time I looked we still have the right to vote and just perusing the list you are really spoilt for choice in NSW, not so much in WA so lets assume they are completely happy.

We have the Hunters and Fishers, the Fishers and Lifestyle, Fred Niles, choice is endless

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_political_parties

[Mike52]

Would that be $23 a ton + GST or is GST included ?

[mx250]

Would that be $23 a ton + GST or is GST included ?

No, it's a tax on a tax .

But if you are a producer or wholesaler you can claim the GST credits. But for the consumer it's a tax on a tax.

[mx250]

BLAHHHHDY BLOODY BLAH BLAH BLAH.
Are we still going on about this, 15 pages in one week and nothing directly related to old bikes.

Build a bridge, get over it .

232 posts,   2579 viewings I would guess there is interest .

Maybe you'll just change the name of the forum to VMX and Grumpy Old Men; sex, religion, politics and the occasional "I remember when I was a boy......" 

[Graeme M]

I'm, almost sorry I started this one...

[Curly3]

Hey, leave SEX out of it, we're old.
Friction causes heat, you know what I mean.
Come to think of it, it's the only true form of re-newable energy.
You only need a half hour's rest and it's on again.
Actually that was 20 years ago, at least a day now.

[FAT-TOY]

  When it's all said and done the only people we should be blaming are the green voters.  Without them giving the greens the balance of power which in turn allowed them to twist Labors arm we would not have the bloody thing.  I also think if things were reversed and the libs had won  power with support of the greens then the same thing would be happening with a carbon tax and labor would be screaming like stuck pigs telling us it is a bad tax and unnecessary.

[AjayVMX]

I suppose no-one noticed that the first "Aussie Family" that Julia visited yesterday in Emu Plains just happened to be carbon tax supporters... 

And she said she was going to do the "hard sell" 

Fortunately the journalists did happen to notice the other 11 familes in the street weren't as keen to support this nonsense. 

And of course, Julia didn't really want to meet them to try and change their minds.  That WOULD be a hard sell. 

[Canam370]

If I decide to  be cremated at my funeral who gets charged for the carbon release? Me (or my estate) or the funeral parlour? I've been paying GST on my carbon and then they'll tax it again!
 I can imagine the furore at the service when the pack of greenies are debating whether the carbon release from the CO2 extinguisher they want to use to extinguish my corpse will be less damaging than the release from the cremation.
 

[Mike52]

If I decide to  be cremated at my funeral who gets charged for the carbon release? Me (or my estate) or the funeral parlour? I've been paying GST on my carbon and then they'll tax it again!
 I can imagine the furore at the service when the pack of greenies are debating whether the carbon release from the CO2 extinguisher they want to use to extinguish my corpse will be less damaging than the release from the cremation.

See how complicated these new taxes can get.

Betcha the powers to be hadn,t factored this one in.

[bigk]

Hmmm, this may sound harsh but seeing that I will in some way be paying for the carbon released into our part of the atmosphere, my agenda is to put as as much fuel through whatever I can and rape & pillage as much country side as humanly possible in what ever time I have left on this planet. I'll let the greenies worry about it out when I'm gone, but until then it's on!
K