The Carbon Sense Coalition today proposed three simple tax reforms to the Canberra Tax Forum.

The Chairman of Carbon Sense, Mr Viv Forbes, said that just three steps would make Australia’s ramshackle system of rules, exemptions, loopholes and penalties so simple that even politicians could understand it and so efficient that compliance costs would be almost eliminated.

“The reform is mainly repealing things and affects only three taxes – the proposed carbon tax, the GST and the income tax.

“The aim of the carbon tax is to deter the use of carbon fuels by making them more expensive.

“All goods and services have a carbon fuel component in their cost and price, and will bear a share of the carbon tax.

“This carbon tax is thus a broad-based goods and services tax.

“We do not need two GST’s.

“Therefore the simplest tax reform of all is to abandon all nineteen carbon-GST bills and also abolish all exemptions applying to the current GST.

“To make this GST change palatable to the people, let’s abolish all income taxes. We do not need that complex regulatory mess either.

“Overnight people will have an incentive to produce things, create jobs and consume less – this has always been the path to real community prosperity.

“Just three changes – simple, predictable, no loopholes.

“Forget Tax Forum Talkfests and Tax Return Torture.

“Just do it now.”

“The three great rights are so bound together as to be essentially one right. To give a man his life, but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty, but take from him the property which is the fruit & badge of his liberty, is to still leave him a slave.”

– George Sutherland, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1921.

It’s all about the sun, not about carbon dioxide:

Geoff Derrick is an Australian geologist with 47 years of practical experience in acquiring knowledge as to how our planet works and how it provides the resources for modern civilisations.

In this submission to the Australian Parliament on their proposed Carbon Tax Bills, Geoff uses the words and work of others to summarise the main issues that should be considered before the Carbon Tax Bills become law.

He concludes there is absolutely no reason or justification for the introduction of a carbon tax.

See his full submission: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/submission-carbon-tax-bills-derrick.pdf [PDF, 2.8 MB]

The submission by The Carbon Sense Coalition, Australia:

http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/submission-carbon-tax-bills.pdf [PDF, 42 KB]

Some image of wind turbine failures.

More images here: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/wind-turbine-failure.ppt [PowerPoint file, 483KB]

The Gillard-Green Coalition and their “independent” allies are in temporary control of the Australian Parliament. They are about to sign a death warrant for their parties and for many of their supporters by voting for the Carbon Tax package. It will take decades for their parties to recover from the electoral venom they have unleashed. Despite enormous opposition from the public, especially those outside the capital cities, and despite a specific election promise that “There will be no carbon tax”, we are about to get a carbon tax mess so complex it takes 19 bills and 1,100 pages to document it.

What do we do?

Read on: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/opposition-never-ends.pdf [PDF, 40 KB]

It is not possible to achieve the government’s planned cuts to the production of carbon dioxide without significant shrinkage of our main industries.

There are only two ways to achieve their unrealistic emission reduction targets.

The destructive but honest way is to allow the shrinking targets and rising taxes to force closures or relocation for our backbone industries.

The dishonest way is to pay billions of dollars to overseas carbon shysters who, in return for our bribes, “promise” to make the reductions on our behalf. This will achieve nothing except pauperisation of Australians.

The tax apologists will claim – ‘but the tax only applies to the top 500 polluters’. Every company hit with the carbon tax must pass it on to all those who use their products. Soon every industry and consumer will feel the costs, even if they do not understand the sneaky mechanism.

People who think the cuts can occur painlessly have not looked at the hard facts of our industries.

It’s not possible to make steel without generating carbon dioxide. No carbon tax can change that.

It’s not possible to make cement or brew beer without generating carbon dioxide.

It’s not possible to generate electricity using brown coal, black coal, diesel or gas without generating carbon dioxide.

It’s is not possible to run a car, truck, train, tractor, ship or plane on oil, gas, diesel or petrol without generating carbon dioxide. Even electric cars, trains and elevators get their energy mainly from coal or gas. As for wind power, 70% of its “capacity” will be delivered by the backup gas facilities, all producing carbon dioxide.

Cattle, sheep, goats and pigs cannot live without generating carbon dioxide. (Even humans must exhale occasionally.)

The Australian government plans to reduce the production of harmless carbon dioxide by 5% (or maybe 25%) by 2050, despite increasing population.

Which industry will be first to cop the carbon chop? They should start by blocking all emissions from Parliament House.

Or is the carbon tax just about grabbing a new source of government revenue?

More, together with:

• How to Solve the Global Warming Crisis – Stop Breathin’
• The Greening of Australia
• Climate Change Reconsidered
• Anti-Carbon Tax Rally, Perth
• Will a Carbon Tax stop our Natural Disasters?

in the PDF: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/copping-carbon-chop.pdf [PDF, 110 KB]

President Obama and a chorus of environmentalists, politicians, corporate executives and bureaucrats are perennially bullish on wind power as the bellwether of our “clean energy economy of the future.”

In reality, wind energy may well be the least sustainable and least eco-friendly of all electricity options. Its shortcomings are legion, but the biggest ones can be grouped into eight categories: land, raw materials, money, energy, health, environment, jobs, electricity cost and reliability.

Read the whole sad story by Paul Driessen at:

http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2011/09/01/our_least_sustainable_energy_option/page/full/

Click the image for a PDF version of the page [66 KB].