If itâs technology not taxes, whereâs the funding from?
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April 26, 2021 â 12.05am
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For how long is Australia going to buy the Prime Ministerâs increasingly tired old saw, âtechnology not taxesâ (âIndustry leaves PM behind on emissionsâ, April 24-25)?With Scott Morrison offering the presidential summit to spend $539 million on new âcleanâ energy projects, including $263 million for the thoroughly dodgy carbon capture and storage dream, I have to ask: whoâs paying?
And the answer is me, via my taxes. So taxes are certainly involved. Wasnât this a government that promised to get the budget back in the black? Wouldnât it be far more effective to tax the polluters and boost the budget rather than tax us to pay off the polluters?