Mangled Thoughts

It was put as a question in the article, Centre for Independent Studies are lobbyists? (20/8/08).

The evidence is incontrovertible but, because of the implications, it was proper to give Greg Lindsay to say to the contrary.
Centre for Independent Studies and the Institute of Public Affairs are treated as charities and thus protected against taxation. This treatment also means they are free to make profit in certain types of investments at a very small percentage of a tax rate, if any tax. This a nasty irony since they wish to wipe out the capital entirely of many companies via Co2 taxation. Naturally, donors enjoy full tax deductibility for their contributions. The amusing thing is, the Lobby business is a business, and so not tax sheltered at all.

The inference is stark naked. Both the CIS and donors, on whose behalf they are lobbying for the imposition of Co2 taxes, are in breech of the tax regime. It follows that an ATO criminal investigation into all of them is a prospect Lindsay and those ‘donors’ now face.

This item, curiously enough, does a kindness to Greg Lindsay. Doing the CIS a kindness is not even in my vocabulary. Ah! the twists and turns of outrageous misfortune. If, after all, one can draw such inferences, so can the Australian Tax Office.

The Australian tax regime, and how it is enforced is hideous, with real entrepreneurs running real firms being targeted and then treated as the most dangerous criminals in Australia by ATO, and Judges who no longer give a stuff about their real duties to Australians. The ATO spies into affairs none of its bleeding business long before the victims find out (when they are suddenly on the receiving of stasi-land, pseudo-criminal charges and a gang of heavies shoving their fists into their victims’ faces). However, an ATO investigation into the CIS and the interests it serves by lobbying for Co2 taxation is an exception: it won’t disturb me, unlike ATO’s persecution of genuinely productive enterprises, their owners and entrepreneurs driving them.

This is what Gregg Lindsay gets for taking on cretins as his guns, and then lobbying for the economic destruction of millions of Australians for the benefit of a very few larcenous parasites:

A heap of trouble Lindsay was blind to and is still blind to, and it shows. If he were brighter than he is, he would not have crossed the line. Now he has to look over his shoulder to spot whether the ATO is running after him with a hatchet.

There isn’t much point in him turning to the interests he’s lobbying for. These treacherous, larcenous bastards don’t give a stuff about him either. Besides, now that the penny is dropping, they will soon enough, if they are not already, be trying to hide from the ATO too.

PS. It occurred to me long before that there are real problems and did publish indirect warnings on this site. Not only the CIS, but interests behind the horrendous, criminal Co2 tax scam obviously chose to ignore them. How stupid are they? Since they are still diving to the bottom of the ocean, it is impossible to tell.