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Dr Dennis Jensen MP
Federal Member for Tangney
01 June 2011 · Posted in Government by Dr Dennis Jensen Be the first to Comment
TONY Abbott has rejected the latest climate change report from economist Ross Garnaut as an assault on democracy, warning that it proposes to give a committee of unelected appointees the power to set tax rates.
Mr Abbott warned it would put the power to set tax rates out of the hands of accountable politicians.
"There is a developing democratic deficit here," he said. "First of all the Prime Minister wasn't upfront with the Australian public before the election. Now the idea that taxes in this country should effectively be set by people who are outside the parliament, and who are not accountable to the people, I think, is just odd.
This just goes to show how out of control the government is on this whole climate change question.