One of the things that bothers me is the cumulative nature of this tax. Think of situations like building a house and how many times over you are going to be paying this phoney tax...
Trees are felled in the forrest using stinking chainsaws and heavy machinery. Costs go up due to carbon emissions and are passed on to the sawmill. Sawmill cuts up your timber and passes on the extra carbon tax costs to the next person. Transport to the fabricator involves trucking transport. Their transport cost goes up as they pass on their carbon costs to the fabricator. Frame fabricator purchases more expensive timber and formes it into frames and adds on their carbon costs before selling on to the builder. Builder has to get frames transported to the building site. Increased transport costs again passed on to the cost of erecting your frame. But wait! The builder has to pass on his carbon expenses to you also.
Been counting? Yes, that's right.
6 Times over you are going to have to pay a stinking carbon tax just for this part of a building project. The best bit is that it is CUMULATIVE. Every component of the process ADDS a tax charge to the final product. How the heck can anybody reasonably forecast the full impact of a carbon tax for these sorts of situations? 3% - yeah right...!
The clincher? Of all the money forked out for the tax, large amounts will go to compensating big business for continuing to do what they have always done with very little actually going to changing anything to do with the percieved problem. If that doesn't make you mad - it should... It is only an ignorant fool who would believe that this tax is magically going to be translated into all kinds of renewable 'planet friendly' energy solutions popping up all over the place.