The News Limited press are serial offenders claiming "we'll all be rooooned" by a carbon tax, they recently had an article which described the hardship a family was facing. The family in question was a single-income family making ~$150,000 per year, with 3 kids and a stay-at-home mum, and talked about how hard it was paying a mortgage on a big house in a nice area in Sydney. The article was complete with a photo of the family, sitting in their luxurious open-plan house on a nice leather couch and talking about how the government wasnt providing enough compensation to struggling families such as themselves. It appears to have disappeared from the website after people asked questions about the 4 high-end tv/audio and Foxtel remotes visible on the couch next to the cute little kids, and whether the projected cost of around $700 per year (or looking at it differently, $13.46 a week) worst case scenario, would cause such hardship to people who were already paying well above that for their pay-tv subscription alone and still complaining about the lack of government welfare support.
YES! Now I understand why da little fella got a $2.9 million dollar payrise at the last AGM - to offset the cost of carbon tax on his personal life! Of course, now I get it
