Family slugged with 'carbon tax fee' for funeral
Submitted by emalvini on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 09:35Family slugged with 'carbon tax' fee for funeral
05:30 AEST Mon Jul 9 2012 1hour 5 minutes ago
A Melbourne family who claim they were slugged an extra $55 "carbon tax charge" when burying a relative were told "even the dead don't escape the carbon tax".
Erica Maliki and her family were burying her father-in-law at Springvale Cemetery when she was told the price per burial plot had increased because of the carbon tax.
Her father-in-law died on June 30, the day before the carbon tax was introduced, and was buried early last week.
"I thought to myself, 'What carbon could possibly be used by putting a man in a grave?'" Ms Maliki said.
"All they did was put the dirt back in. How can they charge us a carbon tax for burying someone?"
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When a government becomes so overtly criminal
that it will lie outright about "carbon footprints" which don't even exist, then it will lie about how much they will steal from you for having one.
See how it works? One lie dovetails right into the next lie, which tie into the profit structure of their theft of the people's money.