Comments on: Rudd plays both PM and opposition leader on tax http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/24/rudd-plays-both-pm-and-opposition-leader-on-tax/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:40:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: JamesK http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/24/rudd-plays-both-pm-and-opposition-leader-on-tax/#comment-11489 JamesK Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-11489 I agree that he has done absolutely nothing substantive yet as a leader. He has begun the dismantling of Howard's industrial relations policy but that is as it should be and was the reason he was voted in. It is still too early to criticise the Ruddmeister no matter how infuriatingly concerned he is with image...he is a pollie first and foremost! The media have to take on their proper role and, in that regard, I enjoyed Mr. Keane's article as a positive! I agree that he has done absolutely nothing substantive yet as a leader. He has begun the dismantling of Howard’s industrial relations policy but that is as it should be and was the reason he was voted in. It is still too early to criticise the Ruddmeister no matter how infuriatingly concerned he is with image…he is a pollie first and foremost! The media have to take on their proper role and, in that regard, I enjoyed Mr. Keane’s article as a positive!

]]> By: RJG http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/24/rudd-plays-both-pm-and-opposition-leader-on-tax/#comment-11490 RJG Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-11490 I didn't make it to the Summit, but after seeing them in action I am very relieved. A singular non event! At least I hope it is singular. But here's an idea anyway. - Increase the GST for stationary power sources (electrical generation) on a sliding scale. Gas fired combined cycle plant 5%, black coal 8%, brown coal 10%. Simple cycle gas fired plant should attract 15%, because any fool who uses our precious gas resources at about 20% thermal efficiency shouldn't be getting away with it. It's worse than brown coal! The company that does it pretends to be green. Renewable GST should be reduced by 5%, - All funds to be put into renewable energy research. Oops sorry about that. It couldn't possibly work because it is a carbon tax. Don't expect to much from Rudd. The expertise a Politician needs these days has got nothing to do with being able to run a country, It's about sucking up to big business, the media and celebrities to either get into power or to stay. I didn’t make it to the Summit, but after seeing them in action I am very relieved. A singular non event! At least I hope it is singular. But here’s an idea anyway.
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Increase the GST for stationary power sources (electrical generation) on a sliding scale. Gas fired combined cycle plant 5%, black coal 8%, brown coal 10%. Simple cycle gas fired plant should attract 15%, because any fool who uses our precious gas resources at about 20% thermal efficiency shouldn’t be getting away with it. It’s worse than brown coal! The company that does it pretends to be green. Renewable GST should be reduced by 5%,
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All funds to be put into renewable energy research. Oops sorry about that. It couldn’t possibly work because it is a carbon tax.

Don’t expect to much from Rudd. The expertise a Politician needs these days has got nothing to do with being able to run a country, It’s about sucking up to big business, the media and celebrities to either get into power or to stay.

]]> By: Tom McLoughlin http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/24/rudd-plays-both-pm-and-opposition-leader-on-tax/#comment-11491 Tom McLoughlin Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-11491 "We’ve already got a Leader of the Opposition. .... no reason for Rudd to be doing his job for him." Cracking line that. Very funny. Talk about 'reforming the centre' all just another phrase for seeking to annexe the non aligned centre with access and flattery at 2020. Your point about brilliance is true as per A.R.T. princple (Another Rudd Triumph). But I and many now have the guy tagged. There is a real ecologically limited world out there. Careful what you wish for, is the notion that will apply to those in office trapped by their own machine and 20C political economy mindset. We just don't live in that world anymore. Peak oil, food riots, population to plateaux at 9Billion, at 390 ppMil C02 yet "Science puts a number on survival - Environment - smh.com.au 2 Jan 2008". That number is 350 ppMil. It's all going to end in tears, and our 'leaders' are too gutless to tell people when they actually have a right to know the TRUTH. When the proverbial cyclone hits Brisbane it's too late. “We’ve already got a Leader of the Opposition. …. no reason for Rudd to be doing his job for him.” Cracking line that. Very funny. Talk about ‘reforming the centre’ all just another phrase for seeking to annexe the non aligned centre with access and flattery at 2020. Your point about brilliance is true as per A.R.T. princple (Another Rudd Triumph). But I and many now have the guy tagged. There is a real ecologically limited world out there. Careful what you wish for, is the notion that will apply to those in office trapped by their own machine and 20C political economy mindset. We just don’t live in that world anymore. Peak oil, food riots, population to plateaux at 9Billion, at 390 ppMil C02 yet “Science puts a number on survival - Environment - smh.com.au 2 Jan 2008”. That number is 350 ppMil. It’s all going to end in tears, and our ‘leaders’ are too gutless to tell people when they actually have a right to know the TRUTH. When the proverbial cyclone hits Brisbane it’s too late.

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