Question Time Live: 25/11/09

Matt Thompson says:

03:22pm | 25/11/09

The CPRS is in fundamental opposition to the basic philosophy of the Liberal party and democracy.  It creates a kingdom of bureaucrats rather than a free and democratic society.  Starvation will soon follow.  This sounds extreme, but it is not.  Look at history.  Government controlled economies always lead to starvation.
Any so called member of the Liberal party that voted for Turnbull today should be banned from the party.  Our Liberal party branch will not in any way contribute to helping a political campaign of a party that supports ETS.  ETS in any form is diametically opposed to what we thought our party stood for.  It is simple unmitigated evil in its purest form.

Ravers says:

03:57pm | 25/11/09

Good God, no wonder you people are in trouble. Get a grip.

Brad says:

03:58pm | 25/11/09

What pure Neo Con bull in it purest from. CPRS simply puts a cost on carbon (both negative and positive) its become a force in the market to lower costs by maintaining or reducing CO2 levels. Company can ‘buy’ or sell Co2 credits. This is not a government control economy, its market driven! This is what the “market’ wanted not a flat target. BTW did you miss the whole reason for the GFC and how it was solved.

Eno says:

04:09pm | 25/11/09

What a very strange man!

julian tol says:

01:53am | 28/11/09

Sorry, Brad. The CPRS creates a FAKE market economy. Any market which is not built on real wants and needs is bound to fail. Failure might be as minor as a serious economic shock, or as major as economic collapse. The precautionary principle cuts both ways. The cost of precaution could be far worse than the problem it seeks to solve, which by the way, I recognise and respect. Put simply, the CPRS is a dog of a scheme. It will hurt the country, and it will fail to help the environment.

michael says:

03:04pm | 28/11/09

If left to it’s own the global market economy currently looks like it will cause a billion people to starve. The funny thing is that if food was distributed efficiently to those who need it nobody need starve. But in order to keep the market functioning we require growth far and beyond what this Earth can sustain, maybe its time to seriously consider alternatives to capitalism.

Juju says:

11:21am | 29/11/09

michael says:04:04pm | 28/11/09 **If left to it’s own the global market economy currently looks like it will cause a billion people to starve.** Millions of people are starving already, it’s natures way of keeping the population of the planet down along with wars and global pandemics. If we fed the ‘starving millions’ the population of the planet would soar and the problem of starvation wouldn’t go away, it would just be bigger.