Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, young people would rather the government keep their money and spend it on climate action.
Tax cuts for the young miss a key point: climate change
By Lucas Walsh and Cathy Waite
February 6, 2022 — 1.37pmWith a federal election looming this year, Josh Frydenberg has been spruiking the benefits of tax cuts favouring younger Australians. Younger Australians (if you exclude the unemployed) have apparently gained $11 billion from personal tax cuts over the past three years. The federal Treasurer also said young apprentices and students under 25 and working part-time were better off on average by $2430 as a result of these cuts.
This election pitch to younger Australians makes sense. Of the nearly 17 million Australians enrolled to vote, over 1.6 million are young people aged 18 to 24.
Such financial inducements miss a key point. Last year, as the world’s largest iceberg broke off an Antarctic ice shelf, thousands of school students (and future voters) assembled for school climate strikes in more than 50 locations around Australia.
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Student strikes reflect a wider trend. Young people are motivated by big issues and engaging on their own terms. They will inherit debt, unaffordable housing and workforce insecurity, but most of all, they might inherit a planet that is scarcely inhabitable.
Tax cuts miss the point. School protests are just the tip of the iceberg.
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Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/tax-cuts-for-the-young-miss-a-key-point-climate-change-20220127-p59rns.html
The image at the top of the page is fabricated. There must be a genuine photograph somewhere of a young person refusing free money, but if there is I couldn’t find it.
I doubt the Aussie federal Coalition government’s desperate attempt to appeal to young people will make a difference to their rather dim electoral prospects. Two years of keeping Australians cooped up with overseas travel bans and lockdowns, while largely ignoring allegations of gross human rights abuses by Aussie state premiers, have taken a toll on their popularity.
But I think the SMH authors are the ones who missed the point, if they believe young people are ready to gladly fling all their spare cash at climate action.
Young people want climate action, but they mostly expect their parents to do the heavy lifting..
It is easy. Just go greener. Plant more trees. That takes up the CO2.
Hmmm . . . what’s the saying? . . . If you’re not a liberal by the age of 20, you have no heart; if you’re not a conservative by the age of 30, you have no brain.
Confirmed by the above article.
More than likely this is because those “Young People” haven’t had to “Work” for the money and so have no concept of it’s true value. Like Buying your first car vs being given one as a present and seeing how long it takes to crash it. If you didn’t buy it, you have no sense of ownership and don’t respect it’s value
As far as human motivations go, I can see nothing that has changed in the 70+ years I’ve been a part of humanity.
As a teenager, I never had enough cash to buy the stuff I needed to keep up with the “cool set”.
So no way would I ever refuse a cash handout from any source.
And seeing how grandkids and all their peers operate today just as I did at their ages, I call bullshit on this SMH article.
Young people want climate action, but they mostly expect their parents to do the heavy lifting.
Bank of Mum and Dad
So, they are stealing money from the productive and giving it to people in order to buy their votes. Is this legal in Australia?
They’ve never known real protracted hunger.
They’ve never known real protracted cold, or heat.
They’ve never known the absence of shelter, or transport.
They will, … “Climate Action” will cause it all, and more.
Children today are subject to twelve or more years of sustained propaganda about existential threats caused by fossil fuels. Until the west insists on a school curriculum that provides a balanced education, not woke disinformation, extinction rebellion will continue.
Of course they do, schools have been propagandizing children with climate fear for 30 years. The gullible youth are all the tyrants have since Climategate destroyed most of their adult base.
Climate change is Her, not her, choice. And certainly less than several million human lives at risk of her Choice annually, globally for social, clinical, redistributive, and fair weather causes. Dress accordingly.
Bill Maher has an excellent take on just how deep the Zoomer generation’s commitment to climate action really is.
See here: New Rule: OK Zoomer.
It’s just as well – they can’t have climate action and money. Other folk will have the money.
My neighbor told me he is buying a Tesla to prevent catastrophic climate change. I told him he would never see that in his lifetime. He said he was doing it for the kids. I told him he didn’t have any kids. He said “I have a nephew.” I said “Have your nephew buy the Tesla.”
But as it turns out, his nephew is unemployed and is living in his moms basement.
If they truly want to give their money to climate change groups, there is nothing stopping them from doing so. What they want is for government to give other people’s money to climate change groups.
Many young adults have never had a need or opportunity to create their own wealth, have an income, etc. There used to be many ways to do this if you were young and hungry. Things like a paper route, snow shoveling, lawn mowing. All that kind of useful stuff which has gone by the wayside and been replaced by out of reach promises or failed expectations.
A lot of the problems lie with the education system where parents have abrogated their responsibility for raising stable and productive people to a governmental monstrosity which brainwashes any hope for individualism and personal achievement from their lives.
So, are they really handing out United States Fifty Dollar Bills to young Australians? Where will they go to exchange them with the lockdowns?
Didn’t seem, from the excerpt, as if they’d actually asked anyone, and the young people’s opinion was out of the author’s imagination. I wasn’t aware that tax cuts were allocated by age in Australia, or that low income jobs were only given to the young. Seems a quite contrived way to argue for higher taxes for the lowest income, but that is the greenunist agenda.
If they want to spend their money fighting climate change they can send it to me and I’ll do as much as their government would do, which is exactly zero.
Actually I would not do this. Taking advantage of innocent dopes would be like clubbing baby seals.
Feeding bullschist to young people can’t be a good plan.
There must be a psychological research group that studies the outcomes.
Note the plural.
“They will inherit debt, unaffordable housing and workforce insecurity, but most of all, they might inherit a planet that is scarcely inhabitable.”
Good prophecy of the net zero apocalypse.
That’s why we have adults – to stop the kids from doing stupid things. Unfortunately, in this case, too many adults also want to do stupid things.
Good luck finding a genuine photograph of a young person refusing free money, The last chance may have been at the time of the Pied Piper in Hameln. However young people would certainly endorse their parents chipping in on their behalf.
They simply don’t understand children.
They’ve never spent any serious time with children.
They haven’t taught children anything of importance.
They’ve simply dumped them in a wilderness to fend for themselves
Beyond unforgivable. They should be castrated and jailed.
My teen years were in the 60s. You don’t have to tell me young people are nuts.
So is there a tax I can pay to make all of this COVID stuff disappear or does that only work with climate change?
Asking for a friend