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
Why? Because she's aware that it's all too easy for those large companies to depart Australian shores. The Labor government knows that it can tax people almost however much it likes while most people have a job with a little spending money.
Gillard should have just told them: "Suck it up, princess."
Your red undies are showing baswell.
Licenses are still being handed out to build new coal and gas plants.
Perhaps that's because solar and wind are roughly 4-10 times more expensive, intermittent on supply and fail to produce when power needs are highest.
The pitiful wages to the majority of the population, which they then have to spend on services the government doesn't provide anymore so they can't afford to buy the goods and services from their own, or any, employers which thus have to lend them money via credit cards or mortgages funded by their employees 401(k) plans until it all blows up. (The only way they can keep it going is by colluding with OPEC to require payment for oil in USD.)
WTF? Something against the US from all your worldly travels and in-depth observations? Pitiful wages to the majority of the population? What have you been smoking?