Australia is angry - Australia is angry that its clueless socialist Labor government is running the country into the ground. Under Howard's Liberal (conservative) government, Australians were living very well thank you. But Australians got bored with their well-oiled government which managed to save $20 billion after paying off the previous Labor governments $$$ billions of debt. Along came a funny little man called Kevin Rudd - who sounded as if he knew what he was talking about (haha) - and the majority of the country fell in love with him and voted for him. Lo and behold, 2 years into his term, Ruddy was shafted by Red Gillard and she won the election last year by the plaque on her teeth - depending on 3 independents and the Greens to get her into power. And because the Greens have Gillard over a barrel, they have demanded a carbon price for their vote. A day before the last election, Gillard said that there would "not be a carbon tax under any government I lead". Gullible Australians believed her and voted for her and her new Green buddies. And now they will pay a carbon tax on top of all the other taxes they pay (wonder what her “working” families are going to say about this?). This will not end well. Australia not only has to survive natural disasters, but now Australia also needs to survive this incompetent government. As a result of a bored electorate, from 1 July 2012, Australians will be paying a carbon price – and we still don’t know how much it will be. Figures being bandied about are $300 on our annual electricity bills and 6.5cents on a litre of petrol – but I suspect a lot more because when electricity and petrol goes up, so does 100% of everything else. But! Of course not everyone will actually be paying their fair share. As any good socialist government does, they will tax electricity (for example), which forces the electricity companies to raise their prices. The tax generated from the raised prices is then returned to low income families in the form of a "subsidy" so they can pay for the higher prices! Ingenious! So, any way you look at it, it is robbing the rich/middle classes (non- welfare claimers) to pay for the poor and who already suck off the welfare teat. Classic Socialism 101. Why do we bother to work when our government will look after us???
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| Gillard and her merry Socialists |
JULIA Gillard's announcement of a fixed cost attached to carbon pollution was "an utter betrayal of the Australian people" as the Prime Minister had previously ruled out a carbon tax, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said today.
Mr Abbott said the "price of this betrayal will be paid every day by every Australian," claiming $300 a year will be added to household electricity bills, and a 6.5 cents a litre rise in petrol prices.
"We will fight this tax every second of every hour of every day of every month. I think there will be a people's revolt against this tax," he said.
"I think the Australian public will see this as an assault on their standard of living," he said.
He said the Greens were really leading the Government on the issue.
The Prime Minister today announced that from July 1 next year there will be a fixed cost attached to carbon pollution which will evolve into a floating market price for emissions.
The fixed price would be enforced for up to five years before the transition to price competition.
She outlined the basic structure of the Government's climate change mechanism and said all revenue would go to compensating households and business, and funding renewable energy programs.
But the size of the initial price and the magnitude of compensation payments have not been calculated yet.
The Prime Minister made clear that activities which caused pollution would become more expensive: "That is the whole point."
Ms Gillard compared the program to the economy change caused by the industrial revolution and said Australia could not afford to be left behind.
"The global economy is shifting," she said in a statement.
"Right now, Australia is at risk of falling behind the rest of the world. The longer we wait, the greater the cost to the economy, and the greater the cost to Australian jobs."
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