Poles Apart; Carbon Policy in Australia and Britain  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 400 no. 8742 (Jul. 2011), page 12.
Topik: Australia; Carbon Emission; Carbon Price; Revenue; Tax Cut; Tax Pollution

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Australia's plans for cutting carbon emissions are welcome, if imperfect. Britain's are fundamentally flawed When asked how he had persuaded Britain's senior doctors to withdraw their vociferous objections to a National Health Service in the 1940s, Aneurin Bevan, the NHS's founding minister, replied: "I stuffed their mouths with gold." Australia's prime minister, Julia Gillard, born like Bevan in south Wales (the old one), this week took a leaf out of his book with her proposal for a carbon price. It came groaning under the burden of generous golden giveaways to Australian consumers and businesses. Unsurprisingly, this newspaper dislikes the amount of cash going to Australia's dirtier industries; the plan does nothing to limit emissions from coal exporters; and there is also a muddle-headed attempt to pick winning renewable schemes. Against that, some gold probably had to be offered to win support. And Ms Gillard deserves credit not just for putting a price on carbon--still the best way to discourage its use--but also for selling it as a way to shift taxation, not raise new revenues. Thus some of the cash which the plan generates will pay for tax cuts that will offset increases in electricity bills. It is better to tax pollution than work or saving.

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