Dear Mr. Rudd,

I supported you for “Kevin ‘07” like millions of other Australians and I have not been disappointed with my choice.

Last week you imposed a 25% levy on all tobacco products and while this affects me greatly, I don’t approve of this action not only because it will take away one of life’s few pleasures for me on the off-chance it will save my life but rather because you bowed to popular opinion and want to ban cigarette smoking because some people don’t like the smell. It is their right to disapprove of people who smoke the same as it is my right to smoke. This is a personal choice and is quite consistent with my life philosophy.

1.My philosophy being as long as I am not hurting or purposely offending someone else, then what I do with my life is my own choice. If I respect the rights of others and don’t smoke around them, what right do they have to say I should stop altogether? Or was this just a tax grab garbed in popular opinion clothing?

2.Next, I won’t die before my time and I won’t die one second after my time. God alone knows when my time will come and that’s it. So to insist that I stop one of my life’s pleasures is not fair and is trying to usurp God’s place in my life. To use common Australian vernacular “Bugger off”

Now I want to comment on the Super Profits Resource Tax (SPRT) or as some have labelled it, resource rent tax. I thoroughly applaud you for this as I think it is long overdue. We all know that you are going to have a vicious fight to get this through Parliament, but I believe if people stop and think about it for three seconds, they also will realise that it is for Australia’s benefit.

In the past, multinational mining companies have been able to contribute huge funds to all Australian political parties and in return, receive huge tax concessions, unfair mining concessions on designated Aboriginal land or any number of other financial benefits.

This has been capitalism at its worst and has had nothing to do with our democracy.

Australia is a democratic country and this warping of our democratic principles has offended the quiet majority of the Australian people. Just because most Australian people are silent and don’t express their opinions unless pushed, doesn’t or shouldn’t give any political party or multinational corporation “carte Blanche” to get or do as much as they can get away with.

My friends and family support you in this Super Profits Resource Tax wholeheartedly and hope you have the determination and guts to fight the viciousness that will ensue from the vested interests opposed to this law. Australia is depending on you and your colleagues to fight well for us please.

Sincerely,
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Most Australian people have never visited these remote regions of Australia where these huge mining operations are taking place. They are extremely remote, barely populated, hot, dry and very beautiful. Their beauty is one of colour and form and may not appeal to everyone. But they captured my heart and soul as no other Australian landscape has managed.

I am not against mining and appreciate the efforts that many of the mine sites go to with their re-vegetation efforts. I have seen reclaimed land after the mine has petered out and if I hadn’t been told that there had been a mine there, I would have been none-the-wiser.

It is time that the multinational mining conglomerates were held to account and Australia is not adverse to leading the way. Go Kevin ~ “Ring the bell and give ‘em hell”

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