Now had the government just said, lets just raise GST to 13% and we will take all the extra revenue, and put it towards pensioners, old folks homes schools and hospitals.
I would not mind so much at all.
this tax has been nothing but lies lies and more damn lies, it is a tax to fix something that is not even broken but non existant.
If you want to slug the people of Australia, sure do it, but do it legitimately and to our faces not behind our backs with something shonky. Do it without loading up an inefficient system of collection even more.
Heck, I might whinge a lot, and I am not a Clive Palmer by any stretch, but I have some hope of dealing with the burden, many do not, and for them I really feel they will suffer not even knowing why, let alone understanding it.
Carbon Taxes have been tried for over 20 years, they did NOTHING, in fact the opposite has occured.
Taxing tobaco has worked how well????
And that is a worthy cause. CO2 is not.