What this lie is actually about is taxing electricity, and unlike a GST where the end user pays (business claim back the GST, therefore there is no multiplier effect), this evil and insidious tax on power will be added at every stage of the production process. By the time that you end up purchasing a locally made product, it may well have had 5 increments of carbon tax placed on it ie: producer, transporter, wholesaler, transporter then retailer. Not to mention how many increments were already included in the raw materials that the manufacturer purchased.
This is an evil, insidious lie and a handbrake to Australia being competitive in a global market. How on earth can our manufacturers compete globally once this comes in?
Direct hit, perfect description of the corrosive nature of this
TAX.