By Southwest Nationalist. Identify a problem, preferably one that is emotive, distant – so that you won’t have to prove results – and involves science or facts which are beyond the comprehension of most people.
Ideally it should be something vast in scope, and with a feel good factor. You may be Joe Average working 9-5 and struggling to make ends meet, but you too can play your part in saving the world. How much more vast can you get than that?
Where science is involved it should be especially complex, and open to vastly different interpretations, so that if it is ever seriously challenged more proof can be come up with or the goalposts can be shifted.
If possible, make it heresy to actually use science to challenge the official conclusions. You evil climate change denier!
Fund armies of scientists, universities, and so on with grants and funding to pursue facts which will support your theory, and make sure such facts get high publicity, whilst sidelining anything contrary to your already established opinion.
Try to ensure that it becomes trendy. Get sympathetic television to present slanted debate. If celebrities support it then so much the better, so many people will buy anything so long as their favourite pop star tells them to.
Now, with all the groundwork laid, it’s money making time.
The problem is established in public minds, the results of leaving it un-tackled will be catastrophic, and both science and media agree that something must be done, and done now.
The public will swallow those taxes without a murmur now, so tax away. Tax everything you can, invent wholly new taxes, watch the money come rolling in.
You’ll have to spend some cash pretending to do something, but the results are airy and intangible by nature, so no worries on having to prove anything worthwhile is being achieved.
Look busy, sound good, keep the threat in peoples’ minds, and pocket off the huge surplus of money. Baffle people with meaningless figures once in a while just to keep them patting themselves on the back whilst handing over their money.
Well done. You’ve just created the perfect tax, you should feel proud.
Oh, and never, ever admit in a letter that any of your new, green taxes is nothing more than a cynical cash grab, or “fundamentally a revenue raising duty” as Chancellor George Osborne was foolish enough to do over Air Passenger Duty (APD).
Oops George, you’ll lose points for that one. It’s never good to slip like that, it may get the mugs you are fleecing – also known as us – start thinking just how much of the rest of it may be swindles dressed up in environmentally friendly clothing.
* Air Passenger Duty (APD) is not a ‘green’ tax and was introduced to deter Brits from air travel, a leaked letter from Chancellor George Osborne has revealed.
In the letter to Olivier Jankovec, director general of the Airports Council Association, which was released to the Daily Mail, Osborne said ‘APD is fundamentally a revenue raising duty and currently raises around £2.5 billion per year’.
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Yep, big business and big government in cahoots. Ac hap called Mussolini referred to that as ‘fascism’, but I guess it would not be PC to criticize our ‘leaders’ like that.