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The Fallacy of the Green Tax
12th November 2006.
If we liken global-warming to wear and tear of an express train,
and we
attempt to prolong the life of the track by slowing the express
with the
brake pedal, as represented by a Green Tax, we take a step towards
making
the train even more uneconomical. Or even if we use a green tax
to reduce
the power of the engine, so that it runs slower, we shall need to
run more
trains to do the same work.
Better by far to examine the reason the train is running at all.
See if the
train is as essential as we imagine it to be.
The first thing we discover is that 50 per cent of the commuters
are earning
their living by taxing, by one means or another, the other 50 per
cent of
the travellers.
This might not to be obvious and therefore not provide an instant
cure for
the problem. But careful scrutiny will actually show that the parasitic
passengers are far more than 50 per cent of the train’s work
load. It is
more likely to work out to be at least 70 per cent. Thus by reducing
the
wear and tear by 70 per cent, we preserve the track and make it
everlasting
with the minimum of maintenance.
So how do we make trouble for ourselves in order to survive.
First and foremost by working for the taxman and for the money
lender. 50
per cent of the cost of what we buy is interest paid by the producer.
We
then pay VAT on the total cost. Like when we buy petrol, we pay
VAT on top
of the petrol tax. Take a look at pensions. We pay tax on the money
we earn
in order to save some of it for a pension. When we receive the pension
we
pay tax on that money which has already been taxed. As a result
it is
impossible to create for ourselves an adequate pension on which
to survive.
The Government must also give us a pension, but does not have the
money to
do so, nor the gall to raise taxes to cover the cost of having taxed
our
pension until it is inadequate. The Government tells the banks to
issue even
more new money as credit and drive us deeper into debt slavery.
Can you see that the rat race we all run, is an attempt to catch
our tail as
it keeps disappearing before our eyes. We pump more power into the
express
train in the hope that it will travel so fast that fate cannot catch
up with
it.
Try to get a glimpse of the insanity of working even harder and
longer in
order to pay tax and launder credit.
When I am no longer a voice crying in the wilderness and people
wake up to
the fact that they are being swindled by the bankers, in the biggest
scam of
human history, we shall have the option of halting our contribution
to
climate change by cooling our insanity.
Doctor Edward C Hamlyn MBChB
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