So tell us your story about you paying more taxes than you have to according to law.
No one should pay more taxes than is the law. Just like no one should avoid paying their fair share,as Palmer is doing ,and you being a sponge on society are condoning. Palmer is aiming to avoid the LAW as you put it, get a 7 year old to explain it to you, you seem unable to grasp Palmer is trying to avoid his share as the law stands.

skippy. wrote on Mar 15^th, 2012 at 9:19am:

So the law allows it. You like going in circle. Jealousy will do that to you.

Bye bye Greens, I can see all those bullshite high end high tech green clean energy jobs of the "New Economy" going up in smoke - nice try bludgers - get real jobs....

Clive Plamer is very good in court.
He is excellent in contracts

Govt confident carbon tax constitutional
March 15, 2012


AAP

The Gillard government is confident its carbon tax will survive a High Court challenge from mining magnate Clive Palmer.   

Mr Palmer first threatened the move last year and says he now has legal advice the carbon tax laws passed in November are unconstitutional.

Climate Change Minister Greg Combet, who guided Labor's Clean Energy package through parliament, believes the government is on strong legal ground because the legislation relies on a number of powers under the constitution.


"I think this is another foray by Mr Palmer who's got more money than sense really," he told Sky News on Thursday, adding the mining magnate had listed litigation as one of his hobbies. "He seems to be exercising all of the wealth that he's acquired out of the resources boom and elsewhere just to pay lawyers."    

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says there are some constitutional issues surrounding the tax.

"Normally the Commonwealth can't tax the states, for instance and this is going to be a tax that's paid by state governments."

Australian Greens leader Bob Brown is unconcerned by Mr Palmer's legal challenge.

"If he's digging a big hole in the Galilee Basin to export millions of tonnes of greenhouse gases into the global atmosphere I can't see why he can't dig a big hole at the High Court," he told reporters in Canberra.   

Senator Brown does not believe the carbon tax is unconstitutional.   

"I've got no doubt that the High Court recognises the power of this parliament over the plutolatry of Mr Palmer," he said.

The possibility of a legal challenge comes as climate scientists say Australians should not be fooled into thinking the world is not warming just because much of the country has experienced a relatively wet and cool summer.

The years 2010 and 2011 set a record of 1409mm of rain averaged over Australia. That tops the previous two-year high set in 1973 and 1974.

The global average temperature for 2011 was also lower than all but two of the years between 2000 and 2010.

But a new report from the government's climate commission warns that it's wrong to be blinded to the long-term trend of global warming by year-to-year variability.

What's more, the recent heavy rainfall and flooding could actually have been caused by climate change.

"Climate change cannot be ruled out as a factor in recent heavy rainfall events," the commission's report, released on Thursday, states.

The commission, established by Labor to spruik the case for tackling dangerous climate change, said there was a need for Australia to do its part to drive rapid and deep reductions in the emission of greenhouse gases.

© 2012 AAP

Dsmithy70 wrote on Mar 15^th, 2012 at 10:58am:

I support my right to condem an organisation that tries to use its membership numbers (dodgy at best) that have mostly overseas members and use that to make waves in our political environment.

progressiveslol wrote on Mar 15^th, 2012 at 11:39am:

When you read my post for the first time you will see I said he is trying to AVOID paying his fair share.Get a 7 year old to explain that to you, though I doubt your comprehension skills will lend you to understanding.While you're at it look at my post that says we should only pay the tax we a required to, but I expect you have to be above retard level to comprehend that,but give it a shot anyway.

progressiveslol wrote on Mar 15^th, 2012 at 12:00pm:

I'm not surprised you avoid your fair share, we already established that to be the conservative way. As for lard ass, well he is trying to avoid paying his fair share by taking the gov to the high court, do keep up, it just makes you look even more inept than you already do.