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..
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Sidney Morning Herald’s pollsters are shysters.
Instead of online polling children and activist college kids, they should open charitable bank accounts and try encouraging these kids to donate their tax returns.
Then they can write about the pittance those charitable SMH accounts receive.
Oh to be young and foolish again… but this this time around I’d have money.
If you can’t afford a Tesla then don’t worry kids as Bjorn has you covered-
Are electric cars the new ‘diesel scandal’ waiting to happen? (msn.com)
Not so sure about the extra brake dust with regenerative braking but the taxeaters certainly aren’t going to go without revenue from fuel taxes. Greenies started all this paranoia so look forward to a tyre tax most likely kids and that will curb the burnouts and wheelies-
Tires: The plastic polluter you never thought about (nationalgeographic.com)
As ye sow so shall ye reap. LOL.
The UK cross-party Commons transport select committee recently said it saw “no viable alternative” to road pricing and work should start immediately on creating a replacement for fuel duty.
Sales of new petrol and diesel cars in the UK are to be banned from 2030 losing the Treasury around £28 billion in fuel duty and £7 billion in vehicle excise duty
Yep, when bureaucrats and administrators start telling me how we feel or think about things I pretty much stop listening. I have more fun ways to waste my time.
Young people in Australia are…stupid!
“but most of all, they might inherit a planet that is scarcely inhabitable.”
Currently the trend is 1.4°C/century.
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And we live in an Ice Age. And most of them for holidays prefer hot tropical places with warm ocean water.
They are the most spoiled and pampered generation in history, as far removed and protected from the environment that they claims to love as it is possible to be.
They SAY they’re willing to give up free money, but only a fool would think they mean it.
It’s not just a bit of extra tax is it? People have been hoodwinked into believing a little tinkering with the fiscal rules will suffice to “save the planet.” Once they realise their whole lives will have to be transformed into the level of prosperity enjoyed by post war Britain – if they’re lucky – they won’t be so accommodating.
And most of their grandparents we now try to save from a virus by accepting a dictatorial state and slavery (more Direct Taxation) will freeze to death during the next cold weather event when energy no longer will be affordable to warm the house.
Genetic Determinism:
At a young age people are programmed to want the most advantageous conditions for raising of the next generation.
In middle age are programmed to want the most advantageous conditions for raising of their next generation.
But, of course, we should be better than animals. We have minds.
Fools & their money are soon parted.
“Young minds full of mush”.
After 30 + years of indoctrination and brainwashing young people we now have our Green Shirts and Climate Jugend. The stupid thing is most of them have not experienced warming or cooling.
Fortunately young people age out into older people, and along the way gain experience and appreciation for how hard it is to make money and then keep your money. Young people generally are more liberal economically speaking and less concerned about material wealth than older adults.
The kids don’t see it as a choice. They’ll take the money and demand over the top action on climate change.
How about crypto?
Take the money. You’ll need it to keep warm in the winter.
The article claims:
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.
So within that 6 year bracket we have just shy 10% of the total voters.
So, quick maths. If 10% is a 6 year age bracket then 90% would be a 54 year age bracket. 54 +24 is 78.
Okay, this is basic maths but even from that lazy method I would suggest that the ‘youth vote’ is NOT statistically significant c.f. the total voting pool.
There is also to be considered just how important the Youth Vote actually is long term.
Spoiler? it isn’t.
First time voters can be shown to flock towards the more touchy feel ‘Left’ political parties, which in Australia means The Greens. The Greens promise wonderful things and Youth – having yet to take out a crippling home loan and/or still live with Mummy and Daddy – are yet to personally relate to the fact that Money Grows on Taxpayers.
So First Time Voters tend to vote Green. Yet The Greens have consistently failed to grow their share of the vote, hovering at about 8 to 10%.
Clear conclusion? Second Time Voters leave the Greens for the other parties.
So if you are an Other Party then you shouldn’t be bribing 18-24 year olds, you should be bribing the 25+
If there’s anything one learns when studying economics, it’s that “money talks, BS walks”. What people say in surveys or protests is next to meaningless. It’s how they spend their own money that really shows what they believe.
And what young people really believe is that it’s someone else’s responsibility to do something, and to pay for it.
Every winter about this time, the “youth” in my university town gather downtown to protest “climate change”. They hold signs and jump up-and-down as people drive past. It’s usually in the mid-20s this time of year. After an hour or two of standing in the cold, they go back to their classrooms, dorms or apartments all kept comfortably warm with natural gas and carry on with their easy lives.