Labor's carbon tax lie

sptrawler said:

Well so much for the 'new clean' power stations to replace the coal fired ones.
Even the greens are starting to realise it's just a great big tax, sod all to do with carbon reduction.
Well all you believers, don't hold your breath for clean air. But do put your hands in your pockets to pay the tax. We will need it pay the unemployment benefits.


http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/po...olar-flagships-say-greens-20120206-1r1w9.html

Wasn't this project going to provide the new clean jobs. LOL, LOL, LOL
What's it called 'rope a dope' LOL

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orr said:

Ferguson is strategically deployed by the ALP for a couple of reasons, one; to keep as many as possible of the 'blue collar red necks' that are still prepared to vote for them, voting for them, a group that they've haemorrhaged since the late 90's. Waving his flag wont change the minds of the 19th century reactionary right wingers that regularly vent here, but those in their field of influence, who have trouble with the big words in the 'Telegraph', may take pause to think, and come to the conclusion 'Fergies' not all bad.
Careful SP you maybe being counterproductive to the cause.
Expect to see an increase in Martins media profile in the next twelve months.

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drsmith said:

Martin Ferguson at least has half a brain.

He must.

Bob Brown doesn't like him at all.

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sptrawler said:

Meanwhile another smelter under the microscope.

http://www.smh.com.au/business/hundreds-of-smelter-jobs-at-risk-20120208-1ragj.html

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sptrawler said:

Now following in Rio's and Alcoa's footsteps, B.H.P are looking at off loading its carbon producing businesses.

http://www.watoday.com.au/business/bhp-may-consider-selling-off-wa-sites-20120209-1rnzt.html

But it has nothing to do with the carbon tax.LOL
No it is all just coincidental.

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Julia Gillard in parliament yesterday:

THE former Howard government developed plans for an emissions trading scheme which, had the former Howard government been elected in 2007, it would have legislated to commence by now.

ABC1's Insiders, July 17 last year:

BARRIE Cassidy: You told the National Press Club in July 2007 that in the years to come it will provide a model for other nations to follow. Peter Shergold, who advised you at the time, talked about getting out in front.

John Howard: Yeah, I know he did do that. But the very first sentence of the terms of reference for the Shergold inquiry was that we had to absolutely preserve the competitive position of Australian industries because of the pre-eminence of fossil fuels. And the whole basis on which we went to the people with that policy and the belief was that the rest of the world would follow and would be going in the same direction. But they're not.. . . There's no chance in the world of the Americans embracing an emissions trading system. The Indians aren't, the Chinese aren't. And we are crazy to be going ahead of the rest of the world. If the rest of the world were adopting a different attitude, well, then a different attitude might be countenanced. But the whole scene has changed. In 2007, people were sort of almost dancing in the streets in favour of these measures. Since then we've had the global financial crisis, we've had the collapse in Copenhagen. And the whole atmospheric of the debate has altered.

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Departing Future Fund boss savages carbon tax

The man who has managed the multi-billion dollar Future Fund for six years has delivered a stinging broadside to the Government's carbon pricing scheme, calling it "the worst piece of economic reform" he has ever seen.

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Australia will have to increase its greenhouse gas reduction target from the current 5 per cent by 2020, to at least 15 per cent within two years under the policies of both the ALP and the Coalition.

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That's because the conditions for doing that look like being met. Remember… the Government's reduction target is 5 per cent below 2000 levels unilateral and 15 per cent if "major developing economies commit to substantially restrain emissions and advanced economies take on commitments comparable to Australia's".

The Opposition has signed up to both the 5 per cent and 15 per cent targets

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It's possible that a new Coalition government will dismantle the whole thing next year, but that would be a Humphreyan courageous decision: first the rest of the world clearly is taking action to reduce emissions, so that if Australia just dropped out of the project and dropped its targets the cost would be very high; and second, if the Coalition tried to use its "direct action" plan to meet the targets, the cost to the budget would be horrendous.

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IFocus said:

So whats the Coalitions tax lie?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-03-28/kohler-emissions-targets-increase-ahead/3916840

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moXJO said:

Labor has lied so much I don't think anyone cares anymore.

Mining tax will pay for super increase oops no wait business will pay for it.
But their won't be any wage increases to scale out the extra cost to business, oops yes their will because the unions are fighting for higher wages to offset the carbon tax. Which makes you question how much worse off those on minimum wage will be if unions want an increase.

Labor is the mother of f%&k ups. They just resort to outright lies when dealing with anything. They can't run the country full stop.

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"worst piece of economic reform I have seen in my lifetime"

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Smurf1976 said:

Well the news is finally out in public. A whopping 26% rise in electricity prices here in Tas on the 1st of July with much of it due to the carbon tax. And, as we're all being told, further rises will come as the tax forces up both the actual cost of generation and also taxes it.

Personally, I'll just be firing up the old Saxon (wood burner) and that will keep me warm without going broke. But it's going to be a truly miserable winter for the many who will no longer be able to afford heating.

Take an average bill of $2450 a year and soon it will be $3087 a year with more rises promised. There goes "discretionary spending" or whatever economists call it - the economic fallout isn't going to be pretty from this one.

Just wait until Victorians realise what Tasmania has already worked out. Natural gas prices are set to rise by far more than the amount of the tax and it's going to hurt. The urban greens won't be happy when they realise that their central heating (which is quite common in Vic) now costs a fortune to run. Even less happy when their job disappears.

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Smurf1976 said:

Well the news is finally out in public. A whopping 26% rise in electricity prices here in Tas on the 1st of July with much of it due to the carbon tax. And, as we're all being told, further rises will come as the tax forces up both the actual cost of generation and also taxes it.

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