I have been spending a lot of time thinking about the Carbon Tax since Sunday (and for quite some time previous to that fateful day) and I have, exercising great restraint, resisted the urge to jump on my computer and start ranting. No, I thought to myself, I will sit back and actually THINK about what has been proposed, consider the alternatives and not just rage against the most incompetent Government/Prime Minister this country has ever had the misfortune of having... and, for the most part, this is what I have done... until I came across this particular article . Now on my path to comprehend both the Carbon Tax and the public sentiment around it, I have read and watched a lot on the topic from both sides of the argument. While I already have a view on the matter, I believe that my opinion and understanding of the subject matter should be tested against the views and attitudes of others. Otherwise, how can I say that my position has been well thought out and considered if I have only been looking at views which coincide with my own? If the method was good enough for Socrates then it is good enough for me. However this article by ABC contributor Geoff Lemon – the ABC pushing a leftist agenda, shocking! – left me speechless. I’ve included the link again here and would suggest that you look it over. Feel free to tell me if I’m overreacting when I say that this article, and the comments it generated, have me questioning the intellect of my fellow Australians...
Geoff’s argument is that because Australian citizens do not live in abject poverty, then the Government should tax them into the third world squalor he seems to want to inflict on the hard working families of Australia. All so that he could witness “...the squawking indignant right-to-luxury crowd learning how to live in the dust, scraping out dried plants from the earth and hoarding their remnants from the Beforetime.” I can just imagine Geoff with the other Lemons, notably Bob Brown and Sarah Hanson-Young, sitting on their high horses, overseeing the destruction of the great Australian economy – and with it, the great Australian dream – just so that they could finally justify their pointless existence.
The left seem to think that their argument that ‘Australia can afford to do it, so we should do it’ is a valid one; nothing could be further from the truth. Just because you can do something does not make it a good idea! I do not need both of my lungs to live, but that does not mean that I should go and have one removed just so that I limit my output of CO2. Why would I subject myself to painful, ultimately unnecessary surgery, if it is not absolutely required? Likewise, why should the Government take a sledgehammer to the economy and subject the people of Australia to the subsequent economic pain when there will be no benefit to the environment? I hate to rain on the Greenies’ parade but Australia only emits 1.47% of global emissions! To give some perspective, at current emissions levels, it would take Australia 13 years to release the same amount of carbon that China emits in a single year. I’m going to repeat that for all of those who actually think that Australia cutting emissions would actually achieve anything: What it takes for us to emit in a year China does in under a month. Perhaps Geoff Lemon and his friends in the Greens should be waging war with their comrades in China, as opposed to the Australian people...
This widespread view held by the socialist element within our community is, ultimately, a selfish one. They want to shut down ‘evil big business’ simply so that they can have that warm fuzzy feeling akin to the joy they feel when riding the [free range] unicorns at Uncle Bob’s Unicorn Refuge, where the majestic creatures eat pollution and fart out rainbows and candy for all the children. What they fail to understand (an inability to comprehend basic ideas is common amongst Bachelor of Arts students...) is that evil big businesses actually EMPLOY PEOPLE! Not everyone gets their income from Centrelink; some people have these things called ‘jobs’. Furthermore, these organisations also invest in Australia, as opposed to fiendishly exporting all of the profits to devilish ‘foreign’ investors. Just a sidenote: it always fascinates me how the Greens want to let every single refugee into the country and slam Australians who do not share their view as being racist, yet Bob Brown seems very xenophobic when it comes to foreigners who have money and, God forbid, want to invest it in Australia’s growth...
I was hoping to complete this post without it deteriorating into a rant... oh well... I’ll just make the promise “that there will be no partisan rhetoric under any post I write”. On second thought I retract that promise, especially after what has been going on with the Prime Minister and how angry people get when lied to (justifiably so, I might add). So I will conclude by saying this to Geoff Lemon: You are wrong, Australian families and the broader economy as a whole is hurting and we do not need this tax. While you may be happy to pay this tax do not be so quick to judge those that do not share your enthusiasm for another ill-conceived – and what will ultimately be a poorly executed – initiative from a Government that fails at everything is attempts... [Damn rhetoric, how did you sneak in there...?!]
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