[LINK] Carbon Price Removal Rebate

[Jim Birch]

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 <cas at 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 <cas at taz.net.au>
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