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A carbon tax will devastate Australian manufacturing
Gerard Jackson Monday 28 March 2011
Mark Dreyfus, Federal Labor Member for Isaacs, is another lying Labor Politician who cannot get his story straight. A recent article of his (Shades of Goebbels in ‘truth campaign’, The Age, March 11, 2011) was riddled with so many lies and distortions in defence of the Government’s destructive carbon tax that it would take a very long article to refute them all. I’ll therefore focus on the one lie the refutation of which explains why the carbon tax would savage the standard of living. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Garnaut and Gillard’s carbon tax plan is an impending disaster
Gerard Jackson Monday 21 March 2011
Professor Ross Garnaut’s call to cut income taxes by $5.75 billion for low and middle income earners is an indirect admission of the ghastly costs of Julia Gillard’s destructive carbon tax. It is also an admission of Garnaut’s commitment to the tax that should raise serious questions about his economic competence. Read the rest of this entry »
Green economic policies would devastate living standards
Gerard Jackson Monday 21 March 2011
The theory of a steady state economy (stationary economy) is not only central to green thinking, something that Senator Bob Brown admitted, it is in fact the green fanatics’ ultimate goal. It would also be a totalitarian nightmare. I think it best to begin with description of a steady state economy followed by the greens’ main criticisms of economic growth and ending with an explanation of why their green utopia would be a vicious tyranny. Read the rest of this entry »
Why Gillard and Combet’s carbon tax will be a disaster
Gerard Jackson Monday 14 March 2011
A carbon tax is an insidious and destructive tax the aim of which is to slash the standard of living. Those who sincerely believe otherwise have been gravely misled. Fortunately the mass of Australians smell a rat. Irrespective of what greens and Labor politicians assert, you do not raise the standard of living by reducing real incomes, which is exactly what a carbon tax is supposed to do. Read the rest of this entry »
We will pay a heavy price for Julia Gillard’s technology fantasy
Gerard Jackson 14 March 2011
Listening to Julia Gillard and Greg Combet talk promote a carbon tax while lecturing us on the nature of technical progress reveals just how much Australian have to fear from the Labour Government and their green collaborators. Gillard is not only delusional she is — along with Combet — an arrogant ignoramus. Only someone totally ignorant of economic history and the history technology could utter their drivel. Read the rest of this entry »
Saving the Murray River– a fresh approach
John Ibbotson Monday 1 November 2010
When I was born, Finley’s water was carted from the Murray River, 13 miles away. I was told that it used to cost more than beer, which seemed believable judging from the patronage of the three pubs across the road. Once the Mulwala canal was operational it supplied town water as well as a place to swim. With Mulwala water the town went from a dusty, “why the hell would you live here” to a pleasant green and prosperous town.
Greens v. the car and people’s wants
Gerard Jackson Monday 4 October 2010
Now that the fanatical green Senator Senator Bob Brown is in a position to influence government decision-making perhaps we should take another look at the greens’ hatred of the humble car and ask ourselves why this boon causes social engineers, would-planners and environmentalist fanatics such anguish? After all, the car has been a great liberator for the masses, giving them the kind of freedom that was once the exclusive preserve of the wealthier classes.