skippy. wrote on May 18
th, 2011 at 9:12am:
longweekend58 wrote on May 18
th, 2011 at 8:59am:
freediver wrote on May 17
th, 2011 at 7:07pm:
I think there is a limit to how far the greens can push this before it starts to push voters the opposite way.
The amount of the tax is a non-issue. Surely it is better to have a low tax than no tax at all. They can raise the rate later.
Industry compensation is also a bit of a furphy. A lot of this is protection for trade exposed industries. The alternative to this risks sending jobs and pollution overseas, where the environmental standards could be a lot lower.
It is getting absurd with everyone playing politics on this one. People accuse Rudd of destroying his CPRS by pushing the coalition into a corner where they had to oppose it. This will be the second time the Greens oppose climate change legislation. The first time they could get away with because the CPRS was a bit of a monster in terms of complexity. Opposing the tax will be a lot harder to pull off.
Then again, the Greens may not have much choice either. Once we have effective greenhouse legislation the drift of voters to the Greens will stop. Preventing the legislation while trying to blame it on Labor may be their only way to grow. The risk of course is that the coalition and Labor may come up with a bipartisan agreement and move forward without the Greens.
If the greens do block this tax, I will be putting Labor ahead of them next election.
You must have missed the latest polls. the drift to the Greens stopped a while ago and it was the carbon tax that is actually causing their vote to plummet. This is because most voters for Greens arent actual Greens supporters - they vote Green as a protest only and since the
carbon tax is massively unpopular and everyone believes it is the fault of the GReens then they are paying the electoral price.
Yes the far right extremist media like Murdoch press and their lackeys like liarsweakend have done a Stirling job of convincing a percentage of the population that they will be worse off with a carbon tax that will in fact give the average consumer more money in their pocket and only affect a very small amount of industry who will pay the tax only if they decide not to revert to greener options. Well done liars weakend, no body could have run a lies a fear campaign against the dumb fcks in the community as well as you and your co lying ass holes have.
ha you obviously dont read your fellow greens..
where the options are to PUT THE BlOODY TAX up after they get it passed..
first they cause PANIC to gain votes... now its lie through your teeth...then mug the mugs after its been passed.
you accuse the Murdock press and longy of lying.
what do you call this then????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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fear campaign the only one I have seen is
THE WORLD WILL END IN 2013 if dont act yesterday.. Al bloody Gore.and booby brown.
and the "Greatest Moral Challenge of our Time"... Kevin Rudd.
you are the one sitting there bragging about no electricity bills..you are the one that can afford to take the govt rebate to get all this cheaper power... I unfortunately am picking up the cost of all this RE..well done to the rich and well off for being able to take advantage of this kick back from the taxpayers..I dont begrudge you one bit.. if I was in that position I would do the same... not because I think I am doing the planet a service.. but because I dont like the electricity bills I am getting..
would all this solar/windmill be as popular if the govt wasnt giving a rebate????????
cynic I am!