What totally beats me about this is what people think the government does with all this tax money. Do they image the government hides it under a bed somewhere? Hello?
It should read: Carbon Price Removal Rebate 01/07/2014 - 25/11/2014 $36.57 Your share of reduced government services and benefits $36.57 Expected net financial benefit: $0.00 On 19 February 2015 at 13:52, Craig Sanders <c...@taz.net.au> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 12:34:10PM +1100, Frank O'Connor wrote: > > Methinks this government has bull-shitted us yet again, and that many > > cheques have been in the mail to the LNP fund-raisers. > > contrary to Liberal Party lies, the obscene rises in electricty bills > over the last decade were completely unrelated to the so-called "Carbon > Tax". > > they were due to deliberate over-investment in the state and national > power grids, because of a perverse financial icentive to do so - > electricity companies are allowed to recover cost + 10% of every cent > they spend on infrastructure, whether it's needed or not. so if they > spend a billion, they get a guaranteed return of $1.1 Billion, a $100 > million profit. > > these incentive rules are, of course, largely due to the privatisation > of electricity supply. > > > > http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/backgroundbriefing/2014-04-27/5406022 > > craig > > -- > craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au> > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > Link@mailman.anu.edu.au > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link > _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
