Global Warming Causes EVERYTHING - except rising prices

[thibodeaux]

http://blogs.news.com.au/heralds....ors_too

THE whitewash begins. Now that the carbon tax has passed through federal parliament, the government’s clean-up brigade is getting into the swing by trying to erase any dissent against the jobs-destroying legislation.

On cue comes the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, which this week issued warnings to businesses that they will face whopping fines of up to $1.1m if they blame the carbon tax for price rises.

It says it has been ”directed by the Australian government to undertake a compliance and enforcement role in relation to claims made about the impact of a carbon price.”

Businesses are not even allowed to throw special carbon tax sales promotions before the tax arrives on July 1.

“Beat the Carbon Tax - Buy Now” or “Buy now before the carbon tax bites” are sales pitches that are verboten. Or at least, as the ACCC puts it, “you should be very cautious about making these types of claims”.

There will be 23 carbon cops roaming the streets doing snap audits of businesses that “choose to link your price increases to a carbon price”.

Instead, the ACCC suggests you tell customers you’ve raised prices because “the overall cost of running (your) business has increased”.

[GORDON]

Scary.

Also there is something like that in this country.... maybe with gasoline? Not allowed to advertise how much of the gas price is tax? Something like that.



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[thibodeaux]

I don't think so, because I have seen THAT, and I think it was even in California.

[GORDON]

I don't think so, because I have seen THAT, and I think it was even in California.

Maybe this is what I was thinking of:

http://biztaxlaw.about.com/od/businesstaxes/f/absorbsalestax.htm

You must charge sales tax in addition to the price of the item you are selling. You cannot advertise or in any way indicate that the sales tax is being absorbed or paid by the retailer (you).

So, does it seems like they make laws to ensure that taxes are off the typical persons radar when they are shopping? You don't want peeps thinking about how much tax they pay, so they call for raising taxes on corporations with no clue that corporations don't pay taxes, their customers do?

[thibodeaux]

What kills me is how gas prices always have 9/10 of a penny on the end. What's up with that?

[GORDON]

Can't talk about the cost of environmental regulations, and also can't accurately reflect jobs lost because of it:

http://www.foxnews.com/politic....es-from