[Vision2020] 5/27/2012 Sydney Morning Herald: "Pensioners receive their first carbon price compensation..."

[Tom Hansen]

For those of you who lack short-wave capabilities, yet want to listen to Radio Australia, go to Radio Australia at . . .

http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/

. . . and click on "Listen".

Here is a little snippet I recorded a few minutes ago.

http://www.TomandRodna.com/Stuff/RadioAustralia_052712.mp3

For their schedule . . . 

http://www.TomandRodna.com/Stuff/Radio_Australia_Schedule.pdf

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"If not us, who?
If not now, when?"

- Unknown



On May 27, 2012, at 13:09, Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was listening to Radio Australia last night, via ye olde short wave,
> and much to my surprise, I heard that Australia continues with its
> plan to tax carbon emissions and offset the cost increases to
> consumers of goods and services related to fossil fuels, so that many
> will actually come out ahead financially, it is claimed.
> 
> The Sydney Morning Herald article below indicates carbon tax
> compensation is starting before the carbon tax starts in July.
> 
> The "Clean Energy Future" plan is decades long to transition Australia
> away from fossil fuels towards non-carbon energy souces, and can be
> researched at this website: http://www.cleanenergyfuture.gov.au/
> 
> I wonder if the fact we don't often hear serious discussion of a plan
> such as this here in the US, a plan where taxes or fees on fossil
> fuels are distributed to citizens to financially assist them in the
> transition away from CO2 emitting fossil fuels, to promote alternative
> energy, is because this might actually appeal to voters?  Fossil fuel
> industries do not want that!  Instead, a picture of financial burden
> for citizens is painted as the outcome of legislating regulation of
> fossil fuel carbon emissions.
> ------------------------------------
> http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/pensioners-to-get-carbon-tax-compensation-20120527-1zcom.html
> 
> Pensioners to get carbon tax compensation May 27, 2012 - 2:34PM
> 
> Pensioners will receive their first carbon price compensation on Monday.
> 
> Prime Minister Julia Gillard says single pensioners will receive a
> one-off payment of $250 and couples $380. The amounts apply to full
> and part pensions.
> 
> "This assistance is there to help people with the flow-through impact
> of putting a price on carbon," Ms Gillard told reporters in Canberra
> on Sunday.
> 
> From March next year, single pensioners will receive an extra $338
> each year, paid at the same time as their normal pension. Couples will
> receive an extra $510.
> 
> Ms Gillard said millions of pensioners will be better off.
> 
> Compensation worth $707 million will be paid to pensioners before the
> carbon price starts on July
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> Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett
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