Tony Abbott:"If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax."

Source: Sky News Interview. http://youtu.be/i5QXblcJAr4 Min 9.15 July 2009
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Official Whyalla Watch #CarbonTaxGeddon Countdown: http://is.gd/Z2NQjf

Tony Abbott:"If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax. Why not ask motorists to pay more?
Why not ask electricity consumers to pay more?

And then at the end of the year, you can take your invoices to the tax office and get a rebate on the carbon tax you paid.

It would be burdensome, all taxes are burdensome, but it would certainly change the price on carbon, raise the price of carbon without increasing in any way the overall tax burden."

Useful Links:
Carbon price: Effect on food prices http://is.gd/TgVLj4
Official Whyalla Watch #CarbonTaxGeddon Countdown: http://is.gd/Z2NQjf
Factbox: Carbon taxes around the world http://is.gd/4p3uTk
Carbon Tax Explained Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tax
Greg Hunt Thesis: A Tax to Make the Polluter Pay. http://is.gd/ggtIwE
Clean Energy Future: http://www.cleanenergyfuture.gov.au/
Economists back carbon tax package http://is.gd/cFPMSi

Scientific opinion on climate change is that the Earth's climate system is unequivocally warming and it is more than 90% certain that humans are causing it through activities that increase concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, such as deforestation and burning fossil fuels.http://is.gd/gjU2ge

Concurring organizations include:
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007
U.S. Global Change Research Program
Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
Academies of Science:
InterAcademy Council
European Academy of Sciences and Arts
International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences
Network of African Science Academies
Royal Society of New Zealand
Royal Society of the United Kingdom
Polish Academy of Sciences
National Research Council (US)
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Chemical Society
American Institute of Physics
American Physical Society
Australian Institute of Physics
European Physical Society
European Science Foundation
Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies
American Geophysical Union
American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America
European Federation of Geologists
European Geosciences Union
Geological Society of America
Geological Society of London
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
National Association of Geoscience Teachers
American Meteorological Society
Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences
Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
Royal Meteorological Society (UK)
World Meteorological Organization

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[geeksrulz]

Mr Abbott: There is the carbon tax—that wrecking ball that is about to swing right through the Australian economy from 1 July - Hansard Thursday, 31 May 2012

[geeksrulz]

Abbott: ''Yes, the initial impact of the carbon tax may not be absolutely catastrophic,'' 25/08/2012

[geeksrulz]

More Tony Abbott Statements:

This is the mother of all Taxes (No not GST)

Great Big New Tax On Everything (No not GST)

Climate Change is Crap.

We will fight this every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every week of every month.

There will be a people’s revolt.

Whyalla will be wiped off the map by Julia Gillard’s carbon tax.

This is a pledge in blood this tax will go. We will rescind it.

I have staked my political life, what’s left of it, on stopping this carbon tax.

[geeksrulz]

It will destroy the steel industry, the cement industry, the aluminium industry, the motor industry it will be, over time, the death of heavy manufacturing in Australia

Tony Abbott on the Clean Energy Legislation

[geeksrulz]

Well I’ve said all along that the carbon tax ultimately spells death for the coal industry…

Tony Abbott on the Clean Energy Legislation

[geeksrulz]

#CarbonTaxGeddon is near for Whyalla.

Please remember to celebrate the end of times on the night of the 30th June 2012 - Whyalla Watch Celebrations.

[thearcher1980]

Thanks Tony, we've finally put into law your suggestion!

Great day!

[younot2funny]

I do wonder, why not just run the first 20 seconds of this video and saturate it on TV and all media for four weeks before September 14? They would be silly if they did not. They are probably silly.

I am simply a witness to this - can't vote and wouldn't even if I could - but two things:

1. Scrapping the carbon price and not even have an ETS - the anger at Australia is going to be palpable. Especially from China.

2. "Stop the boats" will prove to be a MASSIVE LIE. It will now be HIS mill-stone.

[MyBarry2009]

But my Great Big Nanny Tax on 3,200 Largest companies won't be passed on or destroy Whyalla , trust me. Its not a tax , its a Levy .

[jordon peters]

I think their all hiding something

[Phil McRutch]

Of course it is good for the economy and the environment. For those of you that still cannot understand the point is to create an incentive for corporations to invest in green technology. This not only helps the environment but if the incentive is large enough it will also put those Australia on the forefront of the green technology industry, which will be an extremely important industry in the decades ahead.

[PAPO1990]

well it's sure as hell not good for the economy, and to add to that carbon taxes don't help global warming

[David Commentator]

Oh kiss my ass! And then when youre done, kiss everybody elses! :)

[o0Apocalyptus0o]

If you think Julia Gillard is Communist I think you need to do a little research on both Communism and her policies.

[chavrons1]

Actually it was the Islam Mosque that was wiped out and burnt down.

[AnonymousKoala]

not much choice.... julia gillard the communist or tony abbot the jesuit priest lol shoot them both