I am from the government. I’m here to help you. You can trust all the phony numbers I pulled out of my nether regions.
Unveiled at midday today by the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, a package of $15 billion in tax cuts and increased benefits mean 4 million households will receive more in compensation that the carbon tax will add to their cost of living.
The increases to the cost of living, estimated to be 0.7 per cent, will result from the nation’s top 500 polluters passing on their costs of having to pay for the carbon dioxide they emit.
Figures released today show the average hits to households will be $9.90 a week, or $515 a year, whereas average assistance will be $10.10 a week, or $525 a year.
Electricity will rise by $3.30 a week, gas by $1.50 a week and food bills by an average 0.80c a week.
Sounds like a gateway tax or some kind of public incentive (bribe), the reason I say this is they’re math leaves the taxman in a loss and when do governments ever do that?
Typo: “their Math”
I’ve been reading a few Australian blogs on this fiasco. The ‘Greens’ are trying to bribe “families” that the “polluters” will be transfering wealth to them through ‘welfare’ et al. Of course, many are lapping it up without considering wher the “big carbon polluters” get there money from.
Let them eat cake.
hehehe 😉
Please God, I’m begging! Let someone have a cameraphone on her when she (or Bella Pelosi) says something along these lines!
So the government is going to give back more money than it takes in….
…and people that don’t have a pot to wizz in are falling for it
There’s a tiny glimmer of hope. I heard her say “the science is in” yesterday. That’s Monckton’s line. So, it seems, at the very least, she’s listening to Monckton. I dream of the day when she utters another line of his: “The best solution to a non problem is to take no action”.
The science was in, until the MET threw them a curve….
…saying the sun is 50% responsible, means all the climate computer games are wrong.