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Carbon Tax - The Maddest Thing Australia Has Ever Done
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Monday, 11 July 2011

So, we now have a carbon tax despite Julia Gillard promising that no such tax would exist under her regime. It is worth noting the many responses to this announcement.

Firstly Andrew Bolt replies with scathing condescension:

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It's worth noting the responses from the different states.

Victoria:

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New South Wales:

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Western Australia:

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Queensland:

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South Australia:

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So basically we have four State Government's who are expressly opposed to the carbon tax and South Australia who remains ambivalent because the Premier believes the tax will not have an impact.

 

Here are some other opinions on this tax:

 

"[T]he biggest problem with the scheme seems to be the extraordinary amount of money that flows in and out of the Government.

We have a Government planning to rip billions out of the economy, run it through Canberra's woefully inefficient bureaucracy, and then deliver some of it back to households.

If you think the stimulus package was wasteful, we'll have that type of waste year in and year out....."

Susie O'Brien, Herald Sun

 

"[I]n the end, the policy is transparently a political solution with most of the pain removed and as the Opposition says, much of the abatement even to be purchased overseas.

In that sense, the policy is pure Gillard in the tradition of her mainstreamist stances on the republic, the flag, gay marriage, and the Bible.

It is another example of her non-ideological nature...."

Mark Kenny, The Punch

 

"The Prime Minister leads a government that comprehensively buggered up the home insulation scheme. She leads a government that has managed to see $1.1 billion of the $16.2 billion schools stimulus spending under the Building the Education Revolution program wasted. Ms Gillard promises refugee deals that fail to materialise and big plans with big price tags and equally large potential for disaster like set top boxes for pensioners.

Laying pink batts and building school halls are everyday exercises. If a government can't manage them, can it really remake an economy?...."

Christian Kerr, The Punch

 

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