Mark Coulton MP - Federal Member for Parkes

I may not be seeing the big picture on carbon tax, but as I see it the carbon producing industries will pay a tax for the priviledge of operating. They will not add it to their bottom line - they will increase the price of their finished product to keep the status quo and the shareholders happy. The government will then set up yet another beauracracy to administer the tax. The Prime Minister has advised us she will redistribute all the tax to people on lower incomes so they will not be disadvantaged. So middle Australia pays the price one more time. Unemployment will increase and we will lose more industries overseas. Is this too simplistic a view?

The whole thing about 'carbon' being a pollutant anyway is a big hoax. They should be calling it 'carbon dioxide' tax, they are not calling it CD because a lot of people think 'carbon monoxide' and this is confusing which is what is intended. The Greens are always talking about 'sustainability' but it is the beauracracy needed to conduct all these new departments (where the jobs will be - jobs for the government) that is truly unsustainable.
China and India which have no carbon dioxide tax would be laughing at the ludicrous government here because it will advantage them even more and put us at a greater disadvantage in the world economy.

Hmmm
Time for Common Sense 101
Extreme and ignorant comments and labels
1."I want to know how making people pay extra for things will change the temperature of the globe"
This is called a price signal in economics Mark.If the price of a anything including a pollutant is increased it encourages people to minimize its use and to seek out less expensive alternatives-e.g cleaner and more efficient appliances and transport alternatives(buses!You could organize this!) for example. Less generation of CO2 will reduce its warming effect. The temperature of the globe has risen 0.5 degree (to 15.5 deg) as carbon dioxide levels have risen from 320 to 390 ppm in the last 40 years.
2"They are expecting pensioners in my electorate—where there is no public transport, where it is 45 degrees in summer and where it freezes in the winter—to go without electricity."Electricity prices rose by 30% in the past 2 years-what did you say about that??So now they will go WITHOUT if theres a compensated rise from a carbon tax. Not worthy of debating. Reductio ad absurdem(look it up!). Also not worthy of a parliamentarian
3."We hear Bob Brown talk about the big polluters. News flash: we are the polluters!! "Correct -we are the end users. The Greens say recycle it Mark!!-it only takes 5% of the energy to make a new aluminium can from bauxite.You seem ignorant of this.
4"The member for Dobell spoke in a sanctimonious and self-righteous manner, and he is a member who represents a completely concreted and swamp-filled area". That is just plain abuse and not worthy of comment but it DOES tell me a lot about YOU!
If anything YOU seem to be the self-righteous and sanctimonious one!

Maurice, Maurice, Maurice, you Sir are either an A-Grade buffoon or tum podem extulit horridulum (look it up).
1) Please advise how people in Mark's electorate seek less expensive alternatives ie buses when they live 200 kilometres from the nearest town. Unfortunately out that way they don't have the fortune of living in Newtown where earth-loving buses are just a short stroll away.
2) I think you'll find Mark had plenty to say about that, in fact you could say it has been an issue run ad nauseum (look it up). The issue of compensation defeats the argument you raised in point 1 - if people are compensated ipso facto (look it up) their behaviour will not change.
3) Ahhh, and here it is. "The Greens say...." And so begins yet another infantile and partisan argument. The Greens also say boycott Israel and remove restrictions on illegal immigration.
4) You suddenly seem to have a very thin skin?
I look forward to your reply Maurice. In the meantime I will enjoy all the fruits a carbon-laden lifestyle affords.