Mangled Thoughts

While Rudd and Wong are patently grateful to the CIS for several things, those two ‘brown-pants’ did let the CIS down. They rejected the carbon tax for the ‘carbon credits and trading’ plan. In view of this, and also the interests they serve, the CIS has no choice but publish a paper advocating the scheme.

The CIS and its ‘pals’, though disappointed, still clean up. Mr. Yates knows this, via his interest in the Peony ‘company’. On the tax side, the carbon tax paper might have been a blind after all.

They really were aiming at the ‘carbon credits’ version. They had to find someone who was sufficiently dense to write a paper advocating the ‘overt’ tax with conviction.The ensuing scandal would politically kill it, as it has, leaving the unstated, real position to run a fast time on the home stretch. It’s rather odd Professor Sinclair Davidson exposed himslef by supporting the ‘pace-setter’ all the way to a shocking collapse 3 inches out of the starting gate.

So, clearly, the CIS not only has to write a paper advocating their desired way of imposing ‘carbon credits and trading’, they must cover a number of serious concerns. They include, re-assuring all their genuine Liberal donors, Liberals general and the Australian public, it is costless, won’t damage anything if their how to screw “do it” is followed. How it will be light, and many consumers can be given income support to help cover the costless costs of the plan.

Since they have their in-house expert, John Humphreys, who is the man they chose to lead their position, they have no choice but appoint him to write the paper.

I am looking forward to another thrilling read. So are a large number of readers who have found the exchanges to date most illuminating. Darn, after the Easter tridium, I’ll be chatting with heads of firms in rural Victoria. They, like urban based manufacturers, they tell me, are concerned about the ’substance’ of the CIS position. Gee, the CIS and Humphrey have a fine chance to illuminate things even more for these gentlemen.

Oh, there are some very large factories dotting the rural landscape - which employ very heavy capital goods, quite an array of capital goods, all run on good old cheap, clean coal generated electricity. Firms, internally and externally far more complex than the firm I summarised the other day. Large scale firms; many employees; millions of customers. Professor Davidson finds the Australian ‘lattice of production’ a trivial side ‘issue’. Perhaps the good Professor might meet with these gentlemen and explain to them this outstanding contribution to (free market) economics.

Greg Lindsay and John Humphrey can accompany the good Professor. They can give a joint ‘presentation’ to them, demonstrating the costless carbon scheme.