Senator Joyce conducted a survey on the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to establish what percentage of people actually understood what an ETS was. Based on a few simple questions, such as ‘What is your understanding of an ETS’, 91.5% of respondents did not understand how an ETS works.
The Labor Government says that the majority of people want an ETS but how can this be the case when the vast majority of people don’t even understand what it is?
This is part of the dishonesty behind this new revenue raising campaign. The ETS for all intents and purposes will be the Extra Tax System and a new Australian tax will not change the temperature of the globe.
There is something definitely fraudulent about delivering a guilt trip that appeals to the greater anxieties of the community and then implying that the remedy to these anxieties is a new tax when you know, categorically, that the new tax will deliver nothing but revenue to the treasury and commissions to the brokers.
The ETS works on the premise that the majority of people are unaware of exactly how it works. The ETS’s affect on prices will change the buying pattern and supplying pattern of our economy. In fact that is the underlying principleof the plan.
In time, the ETS will deliver billions of dollars in commissions to carbon-permit brokers; they will trade those permits between the unfortunate sectors of the economy that will have to buy them. Industries will either pass the costs onto working families or they will go out of business trying. What Australians have to work out is that if they are involved in one of those sectors what is going to happen to them?
The Government spends so much on advertising propaganda, why does it not come clean with an advertising campaign that clearly spells out the costs of the ETS and properly states the fact that the Australian scheme is a gesture that will not change the temperature of the globe?
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