Reaper
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I totally agree. I have always done so. If you exempt the biggest polluters, the whole thing is a complete waste of time and effort.
I'm just sick of hearing about the huge impact this waste of time is having. Its having no impact at all. Much ado about nothing.
A tax that has no effect on anything is not a tax that is worth having at all. It just gives people something to blame with no actual reason.. just ask the now unemployed Brumbies manager that tried.
It was a bad move politically, motivated and forced upon us by the greens with their heads in the clouds. I bet Gillard rues the day she first heard the words 'Carbon Tax'.
Hence my previous post. Gillard "changed circumstances" to save her political backside. Others it's about saving effective bankruptcy.
I beg to differ with regard to "no effect on anything". For Australian manufacturing it's nothing more than another nail in the coffin. The federal government should be doing whatever it can to help reduce the labour, OH&S and environmental cost advantages of China and the like, not further reinforce their competitive advantage by increasing our local taxation as well. Just to spell it out, I do not advocate lowering our standards of OH&S, labour and environmental to their levels. Taxation is one way to at least start re-balancing the ledger.
Reaper