Something's just occurred to me. Someone's going to have to calculate how much carbon each polluter is emitting and then collecting the money. So am I alone in thinking that this will mean another couple of thousand well paid public servants shuffling paper? And am I also alone in thinking that each polluter will be employing an office full of lawyers who will be contesting that they are not in fact emitting as much carbon as the public serfs say they are?
I see yet another huge totally non-productive "Ca'ching!" for the lawyers and the public serfs.
And on another topic: how many of the "thousands" of Green jobs that Bob Brown assures us "will" be created after he destroys the coal, steel (and who knows what other) industries will actually produce anything?