http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/09/is-carbon-trading-another-gst/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:14:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/09/is-carbon-trading-another-gst/#comment-24047 The Kid From Bondi Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-24047 No, Carbon Trading is not like the GST. The GST replaced a 22% Sales Tax and removed reporting (of sales tax) requirements - a great saving to all because the sales tax was marked up by most companies so that the impact to the consumer was well beyond 22%. Carbon Trading removes or replaces nothing, it is an additional and new cost, read tax and the reporting burdens alone combined with the compliance aspect will add well beyond the mooted $20/tonne cost of the credits. We are led by fools and we elected them, OK not me because I could never stand The Slurp from day one. I bet he was the kid at school who had to spend every moment with the teachers or the headmaster, not just to suck up or tell on some other student but because had he attempted to venture onto the playground he would have had the crap kicked out of him, daily. No wonder he is so pallid. And where is Desdemona Gillard when you need a strong vixen like Amazon to whip the boys into line - Gillard as Madame Lash - the mind boggles at the visage No, Carbon Trading is not like the GST. The GST replaced a 22% Sales Tax and removed reporting (of sales tax) requirements - a great saving to all because the sales tax was marked up by most companies so that the impact to the consumer was well beyond 22%. Carbon Trading removes or replaces nothing, it is an additional and new cost, read tax and the reporting burdens alone combined with the compliance aspect will add well beyond the mooted $20/tonne cost of the credits. We are led by fools and we elected them, OK not me because I could never stand The Slurp from day one. I bet he was the kid at school who had to spend every moment with the teachers or the headmaster, not just to suck up or tell on some other student but because had he attempted to venture onto the playground he would have had the crap kicked out of him, daily. No wonder he is so pallid. And where is Desdemona Gillard when you need a strong vixen like Amazon to whip the boys into line - Gillard as Madame Lash - the mind boggles at the visage

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