carbon tax

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 Australian economy, Bob Brown, carbon tax, Economic growth, Gerard Jackson, Greens, Institute of Public Affairs, IPA, Labor Party (Australia), manufacturing

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 »

Posted in Alternative Energy, Australian economy, Australian manufacturing, Bob Brown, carbon tax, Economic growth, Greens, socialism, solar energy, taxes

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 »

Posted in Alternative Energy, Australian economy, Bob Brown, carbon tax, Economic growth, Gerard Jackson, Greens, rental resource tax, solar energy

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 »

Posted in Alternative Energy, Australian economy, Australian manufacturing, Bob Brown, carbon tax, Economic growth, Gerard Jackson, Greens, Institute of Public Affairs, solar energy

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 »

Posted in Alternative Energy, Australian economy, Australian manufacturing, Bob Brown, carbon tax, Economic growth, Gerard Jackson, solar energy, taxes

Good bye, Kyoto

S. Fred Singer Monday14 March 2011

The 1997 Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012, after surviving 15 years, mostly spent on life support. It reached its peak in Bali in 2007 at the annual UN gabfest, had a sudden unexpected collapse in Copenhagen in 2009, and has been in a coma since. Kyoto had its real beginning at the 1992 Global Climate Summit in Rio de Janeiro. I missed that great party but George Bush the elder went and signed up for the United States. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in carbon tax, Greens