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April 13th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The mining industry has attacked the federal government’s mining and carbon taxes in a new advertising campaign.
The Minerals Council of Australia launched national newspaper advertisements on Friday saying it has paid its fair share of tax and is not a bottomless pit for continual tax increases.
The resumption of the Keep Mining Strong campaign breaks the truce negotiated with miners by Prime Minister Julia Gillard in mid-2010 after she ousted Kevin Rudd.
Council chief executive Mitch Hooke says the ads aim to counter the “emerging politics of envy and redistribution of wealth”.
“We’re making our position very clear that without a stable tax system, you continue to undermine the industry’s confidence to invest and grow for the long-term,” he told ABC Radio on Friday.
There was an underlying concern within the industry that costs were increasing and productivity was declining.
“Yet still, there is the presumption that we are going to be getting even more taxes.”
The advertisements say Australian mining is paying 500 per cent more in taxes and royalties than 10 years ago and will soon have to pay the new mining and carbon taxes and an extra 6.2c a litre for diesel under the carbon tax package.
The advertisements appeared as state premiers prepared to meet the prime minister at the Council of Australian Governments meeting in Canberra on Friday, and as Treasurer Wayne Swan eyes new revenue measures in the May 8 budget aimed at the mining sector.
In response, political lobby group GetUp will ramp up its own campaign against subsidies being paid to mining companies, describing them as “overly generous”.
“Clearly our TV commercial calling on the treasurer to end billionaire welfare by cutting subsidies to the Gina Rineharts and Clive Palmers of the world is hitting a nerve,” national director Simon Sheikh said in a statement on Friday.
It was absurd for the mining companies to think they could get away with crying poor yet again.
“It’s funny how the industry says it can’t afford to lose any subsidies, but it can still afford to blow millions on a self-serving advertising campaign,” he said.
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