The Right Aided the Greens Pt II: The CIS is to publish a paper explaining “costless carbon taxes”.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Having summarised the failure of the Right to shred the Greens on the count of bogus science, Pt II attends their failure on the economics side of the fraud. It wasn’t simply a failure in economic argument, debate and polemics.
Liberal MPs, the IPA, and their link, David Kemp.
12 years in Federal Office, preceded by a decade in one of the crucial States in the Federation Australia, Victoria under Kennett, and the Right did not merely fail miserably to shred the Greens, their Great Lie, and bulldoze the bureaucracies raised to enforce the Greens’ totalitarian aims. No, they imposed an extensive range of Green’s demands and helped the Green’s promote their great lie. As for Kennett and McNamarra they almost beat the ‘watermelon red’ not Liberal former ministers, David Kemp, Malcolm Turnbull and Ian Campbell on such matters as imposing the ethanol fraud. They also rammed down a mountain of capital destroying, absolutist regulations to enforce compliance to the Greens’ cult of death.
The IPA, as advisers to Kennett and Howard Cabinets, demonstrated a contradiction. The IPA’s self-proclaimed forte is fighting regulation. They have over the decades consistently failed. Why? It requires sound economic theory to fight regulation. They are as defective in economics as are the CIS and the HR Nicholls Society. During the Howard years, they did not fight the economic measures of their rightwing pals in the Cabinet, to effect ruination of Australians to “stop global warming” and “protect the environment”.
The IPA’s efforts were given to working out the ‘right’ measures to ram down on Australians. There is a “governance issue” hanging over them. David Kemp and family owns the IPA. As “Minister for the Environment”, he was not merely “watermelon red”. Kemp was a zealot who foamed at the mouth when anyone dared to politely say, “it is all bunk, Minister”.
So, before further ado, we have already three reasons why the Right has served the Greens and their treacherous Leftist allies:
1. Idle “Liberal” Ministers, illiterate in science and economics. Their performance demonstrated these defects. The IPA blamed Howard for the defeat of the Liberal Party; they are free with the truth. Howard by instinct is genuinely Liberal, and he was only one Minister in a Cabinet stuffed with the likes of Minchin, Kemp, Turnbull and a rather long list of the same types.
2. Incompetent advisers in economics and science, who ran up the flag yellow. The IPA even spat on scientists who offered to do the work required, pro bono.
Cowardice, ah yes… While the likes of David Kemp and his IPA spat on genuine Liberals, scientists and economists, they and their chums in Cabinet, and the CIS trembled before the Left dominated press. Chinese acquaintances, who lived under the worst horrors of the Communist regime of China under Mao, are puzzled as to why these ‘freedom fighting” heroes of the Right are terrified of Lefitsts. These venerable acquaintances know all about starvation due to the sort of measures Kemp, Turnbull, and Campbell put in place, and Rudd is about to intensify and multiply.
3. Contradiction. It seems to have escaped the Right’s notice the measures Kemp is guilty of imposing are incipiently totalitarian. The IPA and CIS claim to fight for market freedom and liberty, yet supported that. In Parliament last week, Kevin Rudd set out a progrom that is not merely confined to capital destroying carbon taxation. The measures are extensive, and the force is appalling; they are set out below in “Continued”.
The performance of Rightwing MPs and the IPA has been nothing less than betrayal of their duties to the Howard Cabinet, the Liberal Party, and Australians. Thus, it is fitting who remains are: blubbering Brendan Nelson; polar ice-cap Helen Kroger; Nick “Howard did us in” Minchin; Malcolm “I’m only a poor little wealthy brat like Peter Garrett” Turnbull, who demands Government impose killer price rises on energy and other raw materials.
Turnbull: Shadow Treasurer, thirsts to be Prime Minister, and El Presidente Le Respublico Los Bananos Australiano. Instead, he should be slung out of Parliament and replaced with a genuine Liberal. Then, he and David Kemp must be booted out of the Liberal Party. They can join their fellow travellers, the Greens.
CIS gives master class on carbon taxes
The failures and cowardice of the IPA pales before the actions of the CIS. The CIS has made it plain, they fully support the aim of the Greens: economically raze Australians. Their position paper demanding imposition of carbon taxes demonstrates their capitulation to the Left. The ALP has used the very same arguments the CIS asserts as the way to impose the measures “costlessly”. Even funnier, last week, they stood up in Parliament and used another false proposition put by the CIS, John Humphreys, and their ‘defenders:
Income transfers can compensate modest income earners. Rudd’s pals did say in Parliament, they are studying, by how much, but have established they will have to be large.
There are two problems:
1.Transfers can be made only by impoverishing many others – robbing Peter to pay Paul, then Paul to pay Dixie. This from defenders of freedom and free markets!
2.Mr Jackson demonstrated in devastating papers, carbon taxes destroys capital . I laid out a large number of major cases which drove home this very impact.
Needless to say, there is no income to be seized and ‘redistributed’ when the generator of income, capital, is smashed. The CIS’ rebuttal was a fit of hysteria and calling Jackson, then Strider, Prodos, and others liars. They did not refute Jackson’s economic analysis. They had no rebuttal, so they conducted themselves as Leftist Quiggin, his fan club of juveniles do, and their chums in the media do, slimed those who have every good reason to reject their claims.
(Professor Sinclair Davidson joined in. He pretends to a thorough understanding of Mises and Hayek, as some of his ‘knowing” comments in some of his usual tripe in the IPA Review attests. His papers show he’s a blank on the Austrian school. Yet, he had the hide to smear Jackson, who is a distinguished exponent of Austrian economics. Why attempt to refute Jackson, when abuse will do. Professor Sinclair Davidson is a bloody disgrace.)
Notice the moral force of the actions of the CIS. They don’t give a stuff about the impact of carbon taxes on Australians. ‘Callous’, is a litote. Only the Greens, Kevin Rudd, Peter Garrett, and the leftist liars in the media are cheering them on. We can tell, because Rudd and his Cabinet of “Brown Pantalooned Morons” are using the very same arguments to not only excuse these devastating, totalitarian measures. Rudd and co are using them as the rationale for a wondrous expansion of ‘plans’ worthy of the defunct Soviet regime.
Here’s the rub, the CIS, as the IPA, ignored a mountain of evidence that had accumulated over a decade before their decision to support what the Stalinist Greens demand. Moreover, they ignored one horrific measure already in force in Australia, the food destroying fraud of ethanol production. Since, however, they hold carbon taxation is costless, they will no doubt publish a paper explaining this, and they will have their gun, John Humphreys write it. To help the CIS explain ‘costless carbon taxation’, we supply them a list of economic reading material they need to include (below). The material fully demonstrates why it can be so wonderful.
Conclusion of this article
There it is, ladies and gentleman, the Right has served the treacherous Left and their Stalinist pals in the Greens on two counts, science and economics. Oh, I am not saying they did so deliberately. They have done so because of their congenital defects.
It irks the IPA and the CIS that their mates are not in office, for they have been cut off the taxpayer kept gravy train. Rudd and Co have to funnel ‘transfers’ into Leftist ‘thunk and tanks’. Oh Rudd is, presumably, grateful to the CIS, and, hey, the CIS need not tighten their belts as much as the IPA has had to do (seems like the reason why they railed against Howard). The Peking based Peony Company can shovel a few millions their way via Mr. Yates in gratitude for all the fine work they did in encouraging Rudd to smash Australians into the ground.
Recommended reading
1. Helen “Fidelia Castro” Clarke has wrought devestation through her Green measures, having, for example, already razed forestry based production. Rodney Hide, began as a bureaucrat central planner (the orginal name for socialism) until the penny dropped, it issues only in misery.
New Zealand’s Right, who constitute the New Zealand National Party, detests Hide as much as Helen “Fidelia Castroina” Clarke and the New Zealand Labour Party do. Hide has tracked the devestation wrought by “Castroina” over the years on his site. However, “Fidelia” is about to blitz the trail for ‘costless’ carbon taxes:
Kiwi Climatology, WALL STREET JOURNAL ASIA, May 13, 2008. Kiwi farmers must be waiting in eager anticipation for the forthcoming CIS article.
Global-warming alarmists tend to understate the true costs of cutting greenhouse gas emissions. So give credit to New Zealanders, who seem poised to give the rest of us a real-life illustration of those costs…
2. Here is a “Christian gentleman”, who knows how costless carbon taxation is. We can tell, he is making a fortune out of it, in the form of ethanol,
Khosla’s Conspiracy, May 20, 2008, WSJ.
3. Oh, drat, here is entrepeneur extroadinaire, Mark Vaile, at it,
Government MPs plan to rip millions off in subsidies for ethanol producers, Brookesnews, 2005.
4. This cannot possibly be due to carbon taxes, the CIS and Professor Sinclair Davidson say so, so there:
The Biofuels Backlash May 7, 2008;
Even the environmental left, which pushed ethanol for decades as an alternative to gasoline, is coming clean. Lester Brown, one of the original eco-Apostles, wrote in the Washington Post that “it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that food-to-fuel mandates have failed.” We knew for sure the tide had turned when Time magazine’s recent cover story, “The Clean Energy Myth,” described how turning crops into fuel increases both food prices…
To create just one gallon of fuel, ethanol slurps up 1,700 gallons of water, according to Cornell’s David Pimentel, and 51 cents of tax credits. And it still can’t compete against oil without a protective 54-cents-per-gallon tariff on imports and a federal mandate that forces it into our gas tanks. The record 30 million acres the U.S. will devote to ethanol production this year will consume almost a third of America’s corn crop while yielding fuel amounting to less than 3% of petroleum consumption.
5. I suppose the uppity will indulge this, wounding the sensitivies of the Right, a fracas,
Food Fracas, By Lene Johansen,5/9/2008 American Prowler
Let’s not mention food riots. No, regulation has crippled food production and investment in it, before the impact of carbon taxes is factored in.
6. Surely, to follow the CIS, John Humphreys and Professor Sinclair Davidson, anyone who can write, “cap and trade is folly”, is either a clown or a liar…there’s one born every few seconds:
Cap-And-Trade Folly, Investor’s Business Daily, May 15, 2008. The conclusion must be describing Australia’s Right - no, just clowning around:
All this economic wreckage done in the name of reducing environmentally benign greenhouse gases by men who should know better — and likely do. But they have politics to think about, as well as invitations to Georgetown cocktail parties that probably are not being sent to GOP Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, who in his skepticism of global warming is performing a valuable public service.
7. CIS certainly has weight of numbers agreeing with their position:
The Biofuel Dilemma, By Ben Lieberman, The Heritage Foundation
Lieberman argues carbon taxes have proved successfully costless and have accomplished much of what the Green’s, the CIS, David Kemp, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, and Kevin Rudd seek. Therefore, they can be responsibly rescinded now, before millions more around the world die from so much joy.
Oh, that is enough material for the CIS to digest, for the present. We shall supply them with fresh material I have to hand in another item.
Yes, Sir, I am looking forward to that CIS - Humphreys follow up paper. Better yet, it can be a joint paper, Humphreys and Professor Sinclair Davidson. Why don’t they go for the trifecta - a Humphreys-Professor Sinclair Davidson-Chris Berg joint paper, in which they will re-assert the Greens’ Great Lie is all true and why; and thus Carbon taxes are necessary, and why they are costless. It shall be a thrilling read, I can’t wait.
Rudd’s grand Soviet Era style planning:
Rudd has declared carbon taxes will also apply to cattle and sheep. It is not only carbon taxes he is about to impose. Moreover, his additional plans do entail extensive coercive measures. Read these additional shocking plans in, “Continued”. Oh, it does contain good news, for those spivs about town, Ron Walker and Hugh Morgan, who suppport carbon taxes because they want to steal billions per annum from taxpayers, courtesy of Rudd, via a ‘nuclear power plant’. It is itemised in Rudd’s Soviet style Plans, but listed as still under “Inquiry” - Rudd’s favourite expression to cover thuggery.
Source, Hansard, Federal Parliament, Senate: