And it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of ratbags. This mob signed up to the Kyoto nonsense and then Dear Leader says we will be world leaders in carbon neutrality. God, it makes you cringe just to think of the stupidity of such a concept. It is like saying we are going to be world pioneers in angel dust or chocolate teapots. Meaningless crap. Anyway as part of all this nonsense we are to have the Emissions Trading Scheme. Peddling moonbeams. Wish I'd thought of it. Buying and selling abstract concepts that are then actually weighed. What sort of recreational pharmacology are these guys on. If the price of carbon is $x a tonne we will be charged this and if it is $y a tonne we can sell at that and there is someone clipping the ticket at every turn. And who is that some one? History Boy is right at the front of the queue.
Dear Leader stands up earlier in the week and announces that the petrol bit of the ETS won't come into play until it is well past the election as even the bunch of sheep that masquerade as the New Zealand Electorate won't stand for it. Even she admits that the extra money on gas will be be seen as an extra tax - for the simple reason that is what it is. So the petrol is gone (for a while), the farmers get time off for good behaviour and now the select committee is hearing how real pragmatic businessmen see this stupid idea dreamed up by left wing morons who have never had to work a day in their lives.
A chap who is CEO of Genesis, I think, was giving his two bob's worth to the committee yesterday. He represents evil big business and so anything he says must be bollocks. Well I don't think so. He laid out in black and white what you end up with if you let people who don't know what they are doing play around with legislation. Idiots headed by a failed history teacher have been allowed to dabble in economic policy and the result is an absolute abortion. It shows the foresight and planning you would expect from a five year old. And, as this is the People's Republic, the consequences of their incompetence will be stuff all. If the poorly conceived and even worse fleshed out ETS were to go ahead in its current form the government could garner up to an extra $80 billion in tax. That is not $80 or $80,000 but eighty billion. Not thought of. Happens because the staffers who drafted this crap couldn't organise a nun shoot in a convent. Cullen is sneaking another tax on the unwary - what a bloody surprise. The reason for this obscene unforeseen windfall? Damned Kyoto only charges you for carbon in excess of your 1990 levels. History Boy intends charging you for the lot. And the chances of this extra tax being refunded are precisely zero.
The ETS is a crock and it is based on an even bigger crock i.e. that there is such a thing as anthropogenic global warming. It looks that at last the emperor is being seen to be wearing what he is really wearing. Absolutely nuffink.
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