National to cost us $110 Billion looking after their big polluter mates

Battling climate change will add further $110bn - report
The Government's plans to combat climate change will add $110 billion more than expected to New Zealand's debt, a report out this morning has revealed. The select committee report into National's proposals to change the Emissions Trading Scheme says Treasury now estimated that proposals to allow much higher allocations of free carbon credits to big polluters would increase government debt by 13-17 per cent of gross domestic product by 2050.

How’s that change feeling folks? National have just cost us $110 Billion dollars more to look after their big polluter corporate chums, now I kinda think that the big polluters should pay for their OWN POLLUTION.

Here’s the drill, the right wing try and pretend that if polluters were forced to pay for their pollution that the big polluters will pass that cost onto us, so we shouldn’t force big polluters to pay for their pollution. Here’s the problem…

1: We are already bloody well paying for these big polluters with an additional $110 Billion now, that $110 Billion should be going into health, or education or job creation or a myriad of other social programmes rather than National’s big polluter corporate mates.

2: If the polluters are forced to pay for their pollution, they will be forced to cut back and look to redesign their production methods and there is an incentive to allow new players to come in and provide cleaner products. Even if the polluter passes that cost to the consumer, we have the power to decide if we should pay for that product putting the power back with us the consumers.

National look after their corporate mates, it seems New Zealanders forgot that when they rushed to vote for change last year.