Sagcity from abroad

Yippee. It is finally here; the tax that will toll the death knell of this odious regime rode into town yesterday. If anyone is under any illusion that all the carbon trading tosh announced by seemingly every minister the government could lay a hand on is anything but a thinly veiled extra tax then please drag yourself into the real world. Tax, tax, tax - that is all this mob knows. Well that, trying to tell us how what to think and fiddling around with things so they stay in power. Where do we start?

You can’t really go past the fact that it is all chasing rainbows. The so called point of it all is to save the planet from man made global warming and that is a load of bollocks. There is no such thing. So I’ll put my keyboard down now as there is nothing more to say. But there is. The Government thinks we all believe in the global warming bogeyman and they can therefore justify rorting more money out of us. David Parker (Climate Change Minister – give me strength) was seen on telly saying ‘Four cents a litre on petrol to save the planet - what a deal’. Pullease. How can he lay straight in bed? Are we seriously going to elect people to parliament who have the balls to stand in front of us and let such piffle dribble out of the corner of their mouths? We deserve better.

He then goes on to say the People’s Public of Aoteoroa should become a leader in the use of electric cars. Well for starters there aren’t any in existence that work anything like efficiently. Those that are produced have to get their energy from somewhere; but electric cars are good as the government can take their slice of the new electricity tax off the juice to run the chargers. Perhaps Parker has decided that New Zealand is also going to be a world leader in the production of perpetual motion machines. We will then presumably branch out into selling the world the Philosopher’s Stone so that all the lead we distil off China made Fisher Price toys can be turned into gold. Barking the lot of them.

Another Government quote, this time from Her Herself. 'New Zealand's reputation overseas is priceless'. Not what we do but what we are seen to do. So we are all going to have pay through the nose so that this damned administration looks good. Hopefully the rest of the world will wake up, see that the emperor has no clothes and that we are seen to be making pratts of ourselves. Also notice that although all this BS is supposedly meant to make us emit less carbon what it infact does admit that this ain't going to happen (and it doesn't matter if it does anyway, remember) but tax you for doing so.

And so it goes on and on. The biggest part of New Zealand's infinitesimally small contribution to global greenhouse gases comes from farm animals. So Labour exempts farmers for six years. Forests are good but only those planted after 1990. Presumably older tress have not been suitably brainwashed to toe the party line. The lower income folk (levels undefined) are to be subsidised on the admitted rise in energy charges by those pulling in a bit more dosh. How much more of this bollocks can this not inconsiderable chunk of the population (who all have a vote) stand? I suspect this is going to be the straw that finishes off the camel.

More and more devious ways to bolster the tax take which they then use to keep themselves entrenched is all this mob think of.

I try and stay away from quoting great lumps of prose from others in these ramblings (I regard it as being lazy) but I can do no better than Viscount Monckton (who is a very strange gent with a somewhat chequered history) when it comes to the Headmistress’s latest outrage. I shall therefore append what he said yesterday – and this was aimed at New Zealand.

‘A tax on jogging, cycling and swimming “because sportsmen breathe out more carbon dioxide than the rest of us”.

A bread levy “because the holes in bread are made by carbon dioxide from baking powder”.

A fizzy drinks volumetric charge, calculated by counting the size and quantity of carbon dioxide bubbles emitted when the can is opened.

A Champagne “super tax”, levied at five times the fizzy drinks charge “because tax is all about making the rich poor without making the poor rich”.

Monckton said the Government was at last making real “the dream of every tyrant – to tax the very air that we breathe”.

“From now on, every time you exhale you will be paying through the nose for it, literally as well as metaphorically,” he said.’

Maybe we shouldn’t give them ideas.

I sense that New Zealand is so over this government. Please let it be so. I really like it here and I would hate to have to leave.

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