Comments on: The Gerry chronicles: carbon tax & bad economics http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/03/05/the-gerry-chronicles-carbon-tax-bad-economics/ Australian Libertarian Society Blog Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:48:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The last gasp of a fading fool « Thoughts on Freedom http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/03/05/the-gerry-chronicles-carbon-tax-bad-economics/#comment-68456 The last gasp of a fading fool « Thoughts on Freedom Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:35:28 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/?p=532#comment-68456 [...] destroyed all his carbon tax idiocy here, with several examples of how he blatantly lied. That was the point when Gerry lost all [...] [...] destroyed all his carbon tax idiocy here, with several examples of how he blatantly lied. That was the point when Gerry lost all [...]

]]> By: The hater strikes again « Thoughts on Freedom http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/03/05/the-gerry-chronicles-carbon-tax-bad-economics/#comment-66698 The hater strikes again « Thoughts on Freedom Thu, 21 May 2009 04:23:06 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/?p=532#comment-66698 [...] Des Moore, Sinclair Davison, Chris Berg, Ron Manners and my paper on the carbon tax (a paper he clearly didn’t understand). But that is to be expected, so we can continue to ignore the personal attacks in his hate-filled [...] [...] Des Moore, Sinclair Davison, Chris Berg, Ron Manners and my paper on the carbon tax (a paper he clearly didn’t understand). But that is to be expected, so we can continue to ignore the personal attacks in his hate-filled [...]

]]> By: Climate games « Thoughts on Freedom http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/03/05/the-gerry-chronicles-carbon-tax-bad-economics/#comment-64074 Climate games « Thoughts on Freedom Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:30:28 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/?p=532#comment-64074 [...] Monckton approvingly cites Gerry Jackson, who was one of the chief critics of my approach, before going on to exactly echo my [...] [...] Monckton approvingly cites Gerry Jackson, who was one of the chief critics of my approach, before going on to exactly echo my [...]

]]> By: Mangled Thoughts » Centre for Independent Studies has two fan clubs http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/03/05/the-gerry-chronicles-carbon-tax-bad-economics/#comment-51367 Mangled Thoughts » Centre for Independent Studies has two fan clubs Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:52:06 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/?p=532#comment-51367 [...] The Gerry chronicles: carbon tax & bad economics [...] [...] The Gerry chronicles: carbon tax & bad economics [...]

]]> By: Kevo of Sydney http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/03/05/the-gerry-chronicles-carbon-tax-bad-economics/#comment-45558 Kevo of Sydney Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:01:29 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/?p=532#comment-45558 Well here are today's headlines folks and if you follow this and similar links, I don't get a lot of confidence that the advocates are looking at carbon taxes as replacing other taxes - it reads to me like they see it as a new tax on out-of-favour businesses that will be re-distributed to favoured social groups. Or am I being too cynical yet again ? Emissions trading 'could produce $20b windfall' http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/20/2194865.htm Well here are today’s headlines folks and if you follow this and similar links, I don’t get a lot of confidence that the advocates are looking at carbon taxes as replacing other taxes – it reads to me like they see it as a new tax on out-of-favour businesses that will be re-distributed to favoured social groups.

Or am I being too cynical yet again ?

Emissions trading ‘could produce $20b windfall’
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/20/2194865.htm

]]> By: TerjeP (say tay-a) http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/03/05/the-gerry-chronicles-carbon-tax-bad-economics/#comment-45461 TerjeP (say tay-a) Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:42:11 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/?p=532#comment-45461 Jason - this latest one doesn't include any suggestion that I'm a left wing hippy. So clearly it isn't going to be as much fun. Jason – this latest one doesn’t include any suggestion that I’m a left wing hippy. So clearly it isn’t going to be as much fun.

]]> By: Jason Soon http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/03/05/the-gerry-chronicles-carbon-tax-bad-economics/#comment-45451 Jason Soon Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:25:18 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/?p=532#comment-45451 More conspiracies unearthed http://rumcorps.net/mangledthoughts/2008/03/18/cis-the-right-and-the-ldpals-pals-are-papering-over-what-is-at-stake/ More conspiracies unearthed

http://rumcorps.net/mangledthoughts/2008/03/18/cis-the-right-and-the-ldpals-pals-are-papering-over-what-is-at-stake/

]]> By: The PRODOS blog » Blog Archive » Viv Forbes: No Carbon Tax http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/03/05/the-gerry-chronicles-carbon-tax-bad-economics/#comment-45354 The PRODOS blog » Blog Archive » Viv Forbes: No Carbon Tax Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:55:42 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/?p=532#comment-45354 [...] the last few weeks, Gerard Jackson has written 3 articles highly critical of John Humphreys‘ paper, Exploring a Carbon Tax for Australia (published as a policy monograph by the [...] [...] the last few weeks, Gerard Jackson has written 3 articles highly critical of John Humphreys‘ paper, Exploring a Carbon Tax for Australia (published as a policy monograph by the [...]

]]> By: Mangled Thoughts » CIS and “ANTI-TAX CANDIDATE CALLS FOR CARBON TAX” http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/03/05/the-gerry-chronicles-carbon-tax-bad-economics/#comment-45099 Mangled Thoughts » CIS and “ANTI-TAX CANDIDATE CALLS FOR CARBON TAX” Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:24:09 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/?p=532#comment-45099 [...] First a carbon tax is not a tax on generating electricity. It is a tax on generatingn electricity while producing carbon emissions. If carbon emissions reduce to zero, so does the tax (comment no. 29) [...] [...] First a carbon tax is not a tax on generating electricity. It is a tax on generatingn electricity while producing carbon emissions. If carbon emissions reduce to zero, so does the tax (comment no. 29) [...]

]]> By: Mangled Thoughts » CIS, to buttress its position, has rented a fan club http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/03/05/the-gerry-chronicles-carbon-tax-bad-economics/#comment-44991 Mangled Thoughts » CIS, to buttress its position, has rented a fan club Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:28:11 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/?p=532#comment-44991 [...] Instead, Humphreys flung some more smears, distortions and circuitous nonsense, evading some crucial points such as, Jackson has completed demolishing his garbage by neat, meticulous, impeccable (Austrian) classical liberal economic reasoning. [...] [...] Instead, Humphreys flung some more smears, distortions and circuitous nonsense, evading some crucial points such as, Jackson has completed demolishing his garbage by neat, meticulous, impeccable (Austrian) classical liberal economic reasoning. [...]

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