Taxes
What’s bothering you about the carbon tax?
Is it the same thing that’s bothering me? Taking the carbon tax at face value it all appears to make sense. You pollute, you pay. Pretty simple. And, the money collected from the tax is used to clean up the pollution and develop/promote clean energy technologies. Move away from burning fossil fuels and onto cleaner […]
Carbon Tax: Three Choices?
The carbon tax. Where to start? What to make of it? Well, I’ve been looking into this thorny issue to see if I can come to my own conclusion. For or against? I have reached a decision. But, before I share it with you, let me take you through my thought process. How I arrived […]
Why no carbon tax on petrol?
I think I know the answer to this one … Why the government doesn’t want to put a carbon tax on petrol and most other road transport fuels. Here’s my theory. The reason the government doesn’t want to put a carbon tax on fuel at the pump is this … THEY FEEL GUILTY! Why do […]
Carbon tax decision?
What’s with the carbon tax debate? Is the carbon tax a good thing or not such a good thing? How do you arrive at a sensible conclusion? Who, what, when, where … do you turn to for valid and unbiased information? Beats me. But, I’m giving a speech on this topic next week. It’ll be […]
I never knew paying taxes could be this much fun!
Have you ever had a government “inaction” situation? Not to be confused with government in action. No, we’re talking about government “inaction.” We’re talking “makes no sense.” “Why am I here?” type of situations. For instance, recently I received a tax bill for several properties I own in Citrus County Florida. This was the […]