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    Sorry? You wanted an argument?
    This is abuse. Argument is next door.

    As The Great Man said "An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition" and "Argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ecky View Post
    Here's what I don't get:

    The carbon tax is to encourage business to either pay more tax or invest in "green technology" (basically), right?

    So, if they simply choose to pay more tax (and to heck with the planet), then we just end up paying more because they will pass that tax onto the consumer, right? (except Brumby's....)

    So what's the incentive for them NOT to charge the consumer?

    And how does this reduce carbon emissions?

    Also, isn't the job of opposition to be negative?

    If you want to see Mr Negative, Paul Papalia in the local show does a pretty damn good version!
    Its OK to be negative if you can say what you can and will do to better the situation. Saying you will get rid of the carbon tax and doing it are two very different things. Have you ever heard of a tax being removed once its been implemented? I cant remember one myself.
    Our pollies, both feral (sic) an local just slag of the opposition with out saying how they would do it them selves. And once they get in do exactly the same as their predessesors.
    Pollies a bunch of useless tossers who cant get a job in the real world.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ecky View Post
    "An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition" and "Argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says."
    No it isn't.






    Sorry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SNOB View Post
    Have you ever heard of a tax being removed once its been implemented? I cant remember one myself.
    wholesale sales tax

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    Im too young to remember, but wasnt the GST meant to replace other taxes that we are still paying?
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    Yes, Including all the ludicrous state "stamp" duties that are still kicking around.

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    what stamp duty do you refer ?

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    A rose by another name.

    It's now called transfer duty.

    It's soon to be extended to bodily fluids.

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    People have been predicting forever that they would tax that eventually. At my age I'll probably be under thr tax-free threshold though.
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