Comments on: ABARE ignores inconvenient truths http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/04/abare-ignores-inconvenient-truths/ now with extra source Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:22:16 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Connor Moran http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/04/abare-ignores-inconvenient-truths/#comment-21545 Connor Moran Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-21545 Bernard, "repair" ABARE? Are you mad? Exterminate it. Bernard, “repair” ABARE? Are you mad? Exterminate it.

]]> By: Tony Papafilis http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/04/abare-ignores-inconvenient-truths/#comment-21546 Tony Papafilis Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-21546 More evidence why the left should be sidelined from any serious influence in society - leftys are capable of nitpicking modelling work of any kind if it gets in their political way yet refuse to acknowledge the massive flaws in modelling that they use in suport of their positon. Hence the exposed garbage that is climate change modelling is held up as irrefutable evidence of a left wing political position while those exposing its flaws are denounced. Thsi shows the left do not operate for benefit of humaty at large but for a small segment - hence it's predisposition towards dictatorial tendencies. More evidence why the left should be sidelined from any serious influence in society - leftys are capable of nitpicking modelling work of any kind if it gets in their political way yet refuse to acknowledge the massive flaws in modelling that they use in suport of their positon. Hence the exposed garbage that is climate change modelling is held up as irrefutable evidence of a left wing political position while those exposing its flaws are denounced. Thsi shows the left do not operate for benefit of humaty at large but for a small segment - hence it’s predisposition towards dictatorial tendencies.

]]> By: Roger http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/04/abare-ignores-inconvenient-truths/#comment-21547 Roger Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-21547 Even though ABARE with its 'steering committee' (or sponsor committee, that the ombudsman suggested was a more appropriate name) used a variety of assumptions that tend to make carbon taxes be less than efficient; they still found that a carbon tax of A$200 a tonne (1996 dollars) essentially had no overall impact on the economy - though causing lots of changes, naturally. <br /><br />Why is there now such concern about proposed very modest changes to our taxation regime, away from taxation of value adding, personal incomes and general consumption and towards taxing resource consumption? Even though ABARE with its ‘steering committee’ (or sponsor committee, that the ombudsman suggested was a more appropriate name) used a variety of assumptions that tend to make carbon taxes be less than efficient; they still found that a carbon tax of A$200 a tonne (1996 dollars) essentially had no overall impact on the economy - though causing lots of changes, naturally.

Why is there now such concern about proposed very modest changes to our taxation regime, away from taxation of value adding, personal incomes and general consumption and towards taxing resource consumption?

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