Carbon Tax (2 Viewers)

[abbeyroad]

so when are we gonna tax the government?

 

[SylviaB]

People support a price on carbon

Yeah, polls be damned!

 

[Lentern]

Yeah, polls be damned!

I'm sure there are some that have said otherwise but if your assertion is that over the last 18 months or so the trend in opinion polling has not suggested that a majority of voters support a price on carbon, or that people support Tony Abbott's direct action plan, really and truly god help you.

 

[Rafy]

Zero assistance for small business.

 

[jack93]

I wish I counted how many times Abbott said the word, "tax" in his speech, I swear he's a robot that's been programmed to say it within every 5 seconds

 

[Chemical Ali]

This is an ingenious economic instrument to incentivize low-greenhouse methods of production or service delivery. History will see today as the day Australia finally started on the path out of its status as an insular backwater quarry and towards the forward thinking, technologically minded small-but-efficient world leader the Greens envision it to be!

Thank you Bob Brown and The Greens for working so hard to make this happen. Soon people will see how Abbott and News Limited's scaremongering was bullshit from day one.

 

[abbeyroad]

This is an ingenious economic instrument to incentivize low-greenhouse methods of production or service delivery. History will see today as the day Australia finally started on the path out of its status as an insular backwater quarry and towards the forward thinking, technologically minded small-but-efficient world leader the Greens envision it to be!

Thank you Bob Brown and The Greens for working so hard to make this happen. Soon people will see how Abbott and News Limited's scaremongering was bullshit from day one.

ahahahahahahahahahahahaha that's a joke right?

 

[sillyboy44]

This is an ingenious economic instrument to incentivize low-greenhouse methods of production or service delivery. History will see today as the day Australia finally started on the path out of its status as an insular backwater quarry and towards the forward thinking, technologically minded small-but-efficient world leader the Greens envision it to be!

Thank you Bob Brown and The Greens for working so hard to make this happen. Soon people will see how Abbott and News Limited's scaremongering was bullshit from day one.

It's hardly ingenious... A tax on carbon emissions is a very simple concept.

This tax isn't going to work. The ridiculous compensation to big bad polluters, written off in various forms such as 'job shielding', and tax cuts/payments to households will destroy much of the incentive for businesses to use non-carbon based power sorces. Additionally, many of the products that will be affected by the tax are highly inelastic. $23 a tonne will simpy not be a strong enough encouragement to switch to sustainable forms of energy.

The tax is just a poorly veiled effort for wealth redistribution, masked as environmental policy.

 

[cosmo kramer]

tax the poor kill them all off

 

[cosmo kramer]

ahahahahahahahahahahahaha that's a joke right?

he was prob c+ping it from some news site

just search for that on google

 

[Chemical Ali]

i dunno

realistically in the end it just amounts to shuffling taxes/welfare back and forth a bit

 

[cosmo kramer]

how many exceptions are going to be made for the carbon tax

1 billion

 

[Rafy]

‎"Certainly what we reject is this hysterical allegation that somehow we are moving towards a carbon tax from the Liberals and their advertising; we certainly reject that" - Wayne Swan, 2010 Federal Election Campaign.

 

[Lentern]

‎"Certainly what we reject is this hysterical allegation that somehow we are moving towards a carbon tax from the Liberals and their advertising; we certainly reject that" - Wayne Swan, 2010 Federal Election Campaign.

 

[SylviaB]

I'm sure there are some that have said otherwise but if your assertion is that over the last 18 months or so the trend in opinion polling has not suggested that a majority of voters support a price on carbon, or that people support Tony Abbott's direct action plan, really and truly god help you.

yeah labor's record low support is because people support the carbon tax right

 

[Lentern]

yeah labor's record low support is because people support the carbon tax right

It is not at a record low, those accolades are still held by Paul Keating and John Howard depending on whether you exclusively mean Labor records or government records generally.

 

[Rafy]

Every pollster has recorded Labor's primary vote at a record all time low.

 

[Lentern]

Every pollster has recorded Labor's primary vote at a record all time low.

Nobody mentioned primary vote, probably because it's irrelevant to, like, everything.

 

[SylviaB]

It is not at a record low, those accolades are still held by Paul Keating and John Howard depending on whether you exclusively mean Labor records or government records generally.

labor, but stop dodging the point: If a carbon tax is popular, why is labor support so low? And why does this decrease correlate with the announcement ofthe carbon tax?

 

[Rafy]

Wow, could Gillard be any more patronising in her address to the nation? It was like she was hosting play school.