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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Donovan J. Arnold</SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Ted Moffett <starbliss@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Sunday, May 27, 2012 2:09 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [Vision2020] 5/27/2012 Sydney Morning Herald: "Pensioners receive their first carbon price compensation..."<BR></FONT></DIV><BR>I was listening to Radio Australia last night, via ye <SPAN id=misspell-2 class=mark>olde</SPAN> short wave,<BR>and much to my surprise, I heard that Australia continues with
its<BR>plan to tax carbon emissions and offset the cost increases to<BR>consumers of goods and services related to fossil fuels, so that many<BR>will actually come out ahead financially, it is claimed.<BR><BR>The Sydney Morning Herald article below indicates carbon tax<BR>compensation is starting before the carbon tax starts in July.<BR><BR>The "Clean Energy Future" plan is decades long to transition Australia<BR>away from fossil fuels towards non-carbon energy <SPAN id=misspell-3 class=mark>souces</SPAN>, and can be<BR>researched at this website: http://www.cleanenergyfuture.gov.au/<BR><BR>I wonder if the fact we don't often hear serious discussion of a plan<BR>such as this here in the US, a plan where taxes or fees on fossil<BR>fuels are distributed to citizens to financially assist them in the<BR>transition away from CO2 emitting fossil fuels, to promote alternative<BR>energy, is because this might actually appeal to voters? Fossil
fuel<BR>industries do not want that! Instead, a picture of financial burden<BR>for citizens is painted as the outcome of legislating regulation of<BR>fossil fuel carbon emissions.<BR>------------------------------------<BR>http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/pensioners-to-get-carbon-tax-compensation-20120527-1zcom.html<BR><BR>Pensioners to get carbon tax compensation May 27, 2012 - 2:34PM<BR><BR>Pensioners will receive their first carbon price compensation on Monday.<BR><BR>Prime Minister Julia <SPAN id=misspell-4 class=mark>Gillard</SPAN> says single pensioners will receive a<BR>one-off payment of $250 and couples $380. The amounts apply to full<BR>and part pensions.<BR><BR>"This assistance is there to help people with the flow-through impact<BR>of putting a price on carbon," Ms <SPAN id=misspell-5 class=mark>Gillard</SPAN> told reporters in Canberra<BR>on Sunday.<BR><BR>From March next year, single pensioners will receive an extra
$338<BR>each year, paid at the same time as their normal pension. Couples will<BR>receive an extra $510.<BR><BR>Ms <SPAN id=misspell-6 class=mark>Gillard</SPAN> said millions of pensioners will be better off.<BR><BR>Compensation worth $707 million will be paid to pensioners before the<BR>carbon price starts on July<BR>------------------------------------------<BR>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett<BR><BR>=======================================================<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet,<BR>serving the communities of the <SPAN id=misspell-8 class=mark>Palouse</SPAN> since 1994.<BR> http://www.fsr.net<BR> <SPAN id=misspell-9 class=mark>mailto</SPAN>:<A href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com" ymailto="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</A><BR>=======================================================<BR><BR><BR></DIV></DIV><VAR
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