The death tax — which destroys family businesses by taxing wealth that has already been taxed at least once — is bad enough. But in Australia they have topped it with the carbon death tax:

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.

You would think our moonbat rulers would grant a tax credit for dying. After all, the fewer of us are alive, the happier a place the world will be for the sacred polar bears.

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8 Responses to “Not Even the Dead Escape Liberal Greed”

1. StanInTexas says:

   July 9, 2012 at 7:10 am

   So let me see if I have this correct.

   You die and reduce your carbon footprint to zero, YOU GET TAXED.
   You stay alive and increase your carbon footprint, YOU GET TAXED.
   You stay alive and reduse your carbon footprint, YOU GET TAXED.

   Does anyone see a pattern developing here?????
2. Mikhail Evansky says:

   July 9, 2012 at 7:30 am

   Death and taxes and now taxes to the dead.
3. Spider says:

   July 9, 2012 at 7:37 am

   Have you ever wondered why the Marxist-in-Chief called for the violent overthrow of Egypt’s pro-Western leader, Mubarak? Why is simply to give his radical Muslim brothers another country to dominate?

   http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/08/us-egypt-usa-idUSBRE86708820120708
4. Dr. 9 says:

   July 9, 2012 at 8:03 am

   Even in Australia? They’re starting to sound like the US.

   Things like this only happen, and continue to happen, in places where formally-free people have allowed themselves to become weak gullible sheep.
5. Jodie says:

   July 9, 2012 at 8:15 am

   It used to be that death and taxes were guaranteed; however, if Obama and the UN get their way with the attempt to microchip all the citizens of the world, folks may not be allowed to die.
6. Wizard45 says:

   July 9, 2012 at 9:01 am

   Hmmm, I wonder how much higher the “carbon tax” would have been if they had chosen cremation as opposed to in-ground burial
7. 762x51 says:

   July 9, 2012 at 5:50 pm

   Sounds like they need some dead bureaucrats in Australia.

   Clean up America, kill a Communist.
8. Ghost of FA Hayek says:

   July 9, 2012 at 8:13 pm

   Two things you cannot escape, death and taxes