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Old 16th Jul 2012, 03:14
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Rusty1970
 
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Give it time..

Vegetable growers fearing the pinch of the Carbon Tax

Vegetable growers fearing the pinch of the Carbon Tax
Sure. But you need to remember a couple of things when reading this stuff.

1. Business hates tax increases (fair enough) so it is in their interest to overstate the effects. We need to see the effects to get a real indication.
2. There will certainly be some effect at the checkout, but probably nowhere near as much as people who have a vested interest in not having the tax are claiming (but probably more than those saying there will be no effect are saying - somewhere in the middle).
3. Every time there is change everyone panics, and it almost always turns out to be nothing.

I'm neither advocating for or against the tax. But I suspect it will all turn out to make very little difference.

It is worth noting though that the alternative Government has a policy to spend taxpayer dollars on schemes that will allegedly make the same reductions in Australia's CO2 production. So no matter who you vote for billions will be spent and it is taxpayers that will pay for it one way or another.

So if you don't believe that humans are having an effect, or that our contribution is not enough to make a difference, then you'll get no comfort from the Coalition. Their targets are identical.




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