Green Stuff

Conservatives naturally believe in the conservation of the best, of things that work, in things that will make life better and in the preservation of the environment but recognise that sometimes these things are in conflict and thus that difficult choices have to be made. Conservatives also believe that tax should be as low as possible as they prefer to spend their money as they want to spend it. They mistrust the state to spend their taxes wisely and after all the evidence of taxes wasted over the last few years who can say they are wrong. Of course apart from the defence of the realm, the maintenance of civil order, the maintenance of our coinage, the support of those in need, the coordination of countrywide infrastructure projects and the encouragement of education there is really very little else on which our taxes need be spent. The question of how these taxes should be raised then arises. I find the arguments about a flat tax attractive so long as the initial tax free element on income is set at a high enough level. A flat tax would exclude 'behavioural' taxes such as green taxes which are preachy and an abomination. In any event where is the 'science' that (a) there is global warming and (b) man is the cause of it. The revelations concerning the Met Office, the Climate Research Unit and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change leave me gravely in doubt about global warming and, even if it's true, man's part in it. I wonder who benefits from promoting global warming, I see subsidies paid out of taxes for wind farms and the like and I do not like what I see. Wind farms are a blotch on the landscape, apart from being inefficient and costly. They should be dismantled.