Tax the protesters! (Green taxes?)

Member Name: thedevilinme

Product:	Green taxes?
Date:	19/04/09 (162 review reads)
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Advantages: More revenue no plans to stop global warming

Disadvantages: Waste of time

I think we would all agree that over population is the principal reason for the increase in greenhouse gases and not so much selfish human activity, unless you count having more than two children selfish. Either way no one can or will stop people having children so we have to collectively accept the consequences and stop worrying about global warming and ride it out, enjoying warmer English winters in the process, if and when they ever happen. Electric cars that go 40 miles before a five hour charge up are not going to save the world and nor is less packaging on your fruit. Is it not coal powered plants that create that electricity that charge those batteries? And I guarantee you the coconut without the plastic wrapping will be the last one left on the shelf. And when the government suggests sites for renewable fuels like windmills and nuclear the same middle-class types that protest over the war in Iraq because it's about oil then moan about having wind turbines near their villages, the same group most likely to employ an accountant to evade their taxes. Where do people expect power to come from? Fortunately a democracy affords that hypocrisy.

The only thing that will save us from the alleged catastrophic global warming is another world war, probably with China, purely because of the 1 billion or so body count that will no longer be drawing resources, so either way we will lose out. We have this stunning planet that's the envy of the universe and we are going to f**k it up come what may so we may as well accept that. It's in human's nature to self destruct purely because we think and we can reproduce.

I personally don't believe there will be a catastrophic global warming disaster and man and the environment has a way of sorting itself out. Clearly we are changing the climate by pumping the crap out but when pumping out that crap starts to cost big business trust me they will make sure that won't happen for too much longer threatening their profits.

Now I'm going to wander off on a tangent here but stick with me. There was a recent case where a nurse was fired for secretly filming on a hospital ward to show how poorly old people were treated, especially those ones with dementia that shouldn't be on general wards but in the care homes that were long since closed down. No one at that hospital wanted to treat those people badly but the resources they had available to them demanded that. Punishing the whistleblower is the only way to contain that home truth we can't deal with. 32,000 patients a year die of MRSA in hospitals, these rates tacitly 'accepted' as about right because it keeps enough beds open and so the system doesn't grind to a halt. A system is what works through experience and time. It's callous but the only way the system can work. It happens in every NHS hospital and care home in Britain at some point. Once you get over 80 you are a drain on resources and ushered on your way. 90% of your contribution to the NHS through National Insurance is spent on the last 6 weeks of your life. You come into the world in a pile of fluids and go out that way. It happened with my dad and we were pressured to sign his life away. The point here is that because life is so precious then we need to have more people to look after the elderly and so the population always increases with those green house gases, those young people getting old, putting more strain on resources once again. People are ranting and raving over the greedy bankers causing the economic collapse, but again they put a system in place to exploit and make money because the world MUST produce growth effectively out of nothing or we just don't have enough money to take care of everyone in those western hospitals. We create what is effectively an illusion that wealth is out there and when the bubble bursts that is the realization that wealth doesn't collectively exist. Everything gained is lost. Again, the solution to most of our problems is less people. The genius of green taxes is, like the Catholic Church, you control people through guilt, blaming them for the global warming. Green taxes are no different to income tax and if you can persuade enough people we can slow global warming by buying less stuff but still bringing in the same amount of taxes then you have cracked it.

Our current green policy isn't working and governments like ours are purely using the hype to increase general taxation. We have all seen local councils use similar policies on parking by claiming congestion hurts town centres and by employing twenty parking attendants they promise to cut that suggestion. Suddenly yellow lines and metered parking bays appear and there's no free parking where there was before. This means any overstay can be fined and revenue can be raised. If hype is seen as reality over global warming then the government can really hit us with green taxes, as they are starting to do now, the European Union the worse culprits. 50% of all your gas bill increases are not to do with the price of gas but to do with green taxes levied by the EU, of which most of that cash will be no doubt spent on their 20% wage and pension increase they have just agreed with themselves.

Take the landfill act that the EU introduced. The law was supposed to be punitive green taxes to make councils around Europe recycle more and bury less, a great idea in principal. But because the fines are so harsh and it's hard to hit the 40% recycling targets the councils are panicking and shipping their junk off to places like China and India that go on to produce those green house gases somewhere else. In the downturn that method of disposal has increased radically as the price of recycled materials has collapsed by 80%. Most of the stuff you sort in 2009 is either being stockpiled in warehouses, increasingly incinerated, or land filled abroad. The big question for me is if we can't exploit recycling in recession then what's the point? Its inevitable that this stockpiling to avoid EU fines will mean an increase in your council tax to pay for that storage, all very ironic, the bin tax another two steps closer me thinks. The council has got to find extra cash for refuge and that forced green policy and that means those people who religiously obey the recycling rules are the ones most likely to be targeted to pay any fines or bin taxes needed, purely because they will and the abusers wont, even anti terror laws being used to snoop on people throwing their trash out. No one believes that if bin taxes are agreed that any householder who cuts their landfill rubbish and increases their recycling will pay less council tax. Everyone expects it's a mechanism to put up the council tax, just as we know from experience that parking attendants are indeed about making money and not cutting congestion.

The April 1st protests over various issues, including the economy and climate change, irritated me greatly and I thought the police did a great job on the day to contain the thug element, most of whom had come over from Italy and Eastern Europe. It's sad the old chap died in the scuffle but he looked drunk on TV and had an enlarged liver through that reported life of drinking that eventually killed him that day, a man no stranger to falling over on his face in public. Just as I get a truncheon to the back of the legs by dooyoo when I push it then that bloody woman who taunted the police on a stressful day also deserved it. She had multiple convictions for shoplifting and was a certified drug addict and was not there to protest over windmills. How is she doing society any good? There's nothing more grating than students and middle-class liberal types who claim to represent the masses, taking the day off lectures or work to protest for the sake of protesting. These are the people that not only make it hard for other people with more general gripes to protest but they are usually the same people who benefit most from the system that they are protesting against. Where do they think the money comes from to live the comfortably lives they have been living if not through risk taking in the markets? It comes from those credit cards in their pockets, the cards from the banks they were protesting about, the ones they should have to hand in now if they hate the system so much! Again risk generates profit and it has to be taken, and if that growth produces pollution then so be it. And like those images and videos captured of extreme weather events that pump the fear of global warming, the same cameras snap the tiny amount of needed police brutality, making it worse than it was.

Recently deceased best selling author Michael Crichton wrote a book about global warming, which although dull, was a polemic that made some good points. He sees manmade global warming as a conspiracy by the ruling classes to make yet more money, simple as. It is predicted that up to $50 billion dollars will be made on carbon exchanges alone in the next ten years. Carbon exchanges are where big companies can trade their pollutants costs with other countries and companies. For instance America can sell some of its pollutant quota to Indonesia so the same amount is produced but America aren't technically responsible. Anyhow, Crichton theory is all about risk. The all-seeing 24/7 media report every global disaster and so it increases the fear that the world is less safe place. Hurricane Katrina was cynically attributed to global warming and we were told we would have more hurricanes every year but the category storms have remained unchanged in 100 years in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. But the fear has been sewed and so more expensive insurance policies can be pushed through in the Caribbean and laws can be introduced to stop things that can't really be stopped, but making lawyers more money to legislate against them. Politicians love it because they can jump behind populist fears and campaigns and so keep their face in the trough of public money that the job pays and the kick-backs the hype it generates. Scare people enough and they will turn to anyone with half a solution. It's already decided that the green revolution is the next big earner now the banks are to be regulated. Have you noticed that Labour only make global warming policy announcements when its nice and warm and the gas companies announce price rises when its freezing, just as the water companies do when its dry and warm. If we are suffering global warming in the U.K then how come our gas bills have gone up 60% since 2000? Surely we should be using less gas at cheaper prices? You can clearly see the hype is being exploited, which must suggest the two are connected, which asks the question who is generating the hype? Since the warmer years at the start of this decade its gone all cold and wet in the second half of this decade and is set to be no warmer of colder than 1909, a very normal ten year spell in any century. That fact you won't hear about. The Romans invaded Southern England in the middle of the last century because it was three degrees warmer here than it is this century so they could grow grapes.

And finally...

The scientist say that the more of the ice caps melts then the less heat is reflected off the ice and the warmer the earth gets. But did you know that if you put a cup of hot water out on a frosty night and a cup of cold tap water the warm one freezes first? Try it and see and then you may question all the hype, hype that whacking up your taxes more than the days when global warming wasn't in the news.

Summary: A warmer Britain!