Looks like John Boscawen and Rodney Hide are holding a North Shore meeting tonight to oppose the introduction on July 1st the National-ACT-Maori Government’s Emissions Trading Scam—described as “the most pointless tax ever inflicted on New Zealanders”—a tax on production, in the teeth of a recession, in the name of a non-problem.
Come to an URGENT PUBLIC MEETING and learn how:
- the government and its power generators will soon be celebrating windfall profits while you’re suffering a 5% price rise.
- petrol will soon go up 4 cents a litre because of the Scam.
- the above rises will double to 10% and 8 cents a litre by 2013.
- the cost of EVERYTHING ELSE will go up after July 1, as the increased cost of power and transport forces increases across the board.
Head along and ask John & Rodney why they’re supporting the government that are bringing it in.
TAKAPUNA: Monday 12 April - The Mary Thomas Centre, 3 Gibbons Road, Takapuna, 7 p.m
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3 comments:
John Boscawen was present. Rodney Hide was not.
The following is my interpretation of the situation, following John's lucid and matter-of-fact presentation and Q&A...
The problem seems to be two-fold:
1. Nick Smith
2. John Key
Nick Smith, the man in the wrong party, has a bee in his bonnet about climate change, and managed to convince cabinet last year on the current course of action.
John Key, who sets the general direction, is derelict in his duty -- he should see that with none of our major trading partners having any ETS, our ETS is now pure folly. It should be withdrawn, or at a minimum, postponed for 2 years while the dust settles.
So how did ACT direct its votes on the ETS scam when it went through parliament? Did they vote for it or against it?
LGM
I was certain that how members voted on each issue was a matter of public record, and was displayed somewhere on the parliament website. I can't find it. LGM asks an excellent question above, and I thought it would be one easily answered. Seems not. Unless my Google-fu has failed me.
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