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To be called a Cockney, you need to be born within the sound of the Bow Bells, a church in the East End of London.
My Mum was a Cockney; one of the things she taught me, was a love of the English language and their particular slant on it. This is a total disrespect of the upper class snob version.
With the need to hide their intensions and sometimes their actions, Rhyming Slang was born.
A coded “street talk”, only for the people.
Disrespect, yes, but total respect for the language. I don’t think I can ever remember her spelling a word incorrectly and a veracious reader also, six books a week and the local libraries best customer.
With this background of street smarts, love of the language, wide general knowledge and natural ability to turn a word from its long used common meaning to mean something completely new and exciting, would have tickled my Mums fancy.
Fart Tax.
Absolutely brilliant, from the moment these two words were coined; they took on a whole new meaning.
Have you ever heard of anything more disserving of disrespect than a tax on the amount gas that one of Gods creatures passes, front or back?
So what’s the real reason the Toffs and Snobs would introduce something as ridiculous as this?
Because no ones that stupid, are they, that they would not see this as anything but laughable?
So what’s the real reason?
To “raise the readies” for stage two?
To “camouflage” stage two?
To punish the commoners by hitting them at the table with higher food prices?
But of course, give themselves a pay rise to cover any short fall.
To “raise the readies” for something else?
To camouflage something else?
Time will tell. The questions that concern me most are the first two. The world is running out of oil folks and struggling under the weight of the pollution in the atmosphere, caused by too many vehicles on the planet.
Stage two is a Fart Tax on vehicles. Stage one is just a pilot scheme for the second. This one is not so funny.
I watched a documentary the other day on this new oil hunting, oil rig that can find oil even in the smallest of pockets, the thing cost billions to make and why would you need it if oil could be picked up everywhere.
Do you remember the 73 oil shock; this is when they worked it out, that the stuff was running out.
The damage done by a sudden dramatic increase in the cost changed the world.
Even BP has started an advertising campaign of “Beyond Petroleum”
The best figures I can source on how much this Fart Tax will be, is US25.00 per tonne of carbon, or a price increase of 13 cents per litre of Diesel and 6.5 cents per litre of petrol.
Not so bad to protect the environment and the air we breathe, I suppose?
But hang on, if oil is running out wont that make it scarce and therefore do less damage to the environment, so we will need less of a Fart Tax.
Yes, but it will still be scarce.
Hard to find things are worth heaps more than common things, just ask a Pollies brain cell.
But common sense has prevailed and the fart tax has been dropped, because farmers are going to do their own research, yeah right.
If your business relies on a carbon based fuel folks, get yourself organised, the tanks on E and this fart tax won’t be dropped.
But that’s “just an old trucker’s point of view”
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