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By Richard Denniss, published 29/7/2010A 'Citizens' Assembly' could be the single worst idea ever floated by an elected government in a federal election.
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YEs, Rudd came in on a ETS mandate and Gizzards has buck-passed it to a talk-fest... tytpical "time-buying"
She can claim to be doing something when in fact she is doing nothing
and refering to Yabbys comment
as one politician famously said
"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"
Ultimately one has to ask who "benefits" from an ETS ?
It is certainly not the electorate and whilst I have met many voters,
I have never, ever met even one single "common good"
So, let "the common good" vote for it and leave the electorate vote for what they are prepared to pay for -
but really, why should voters ever consider supporting one?