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A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

Forgetting that its all a crock of shit, I think for the carbon tax to actually work as intended, and provide incentives to go greener or whatever, there needs to be very strict regulations and consequences placed on companies who are just going to pass it on. E.g should the consumers end up paying more, the company better come up with a far better, and non bullshit reason for it, other than "It was threatening to minutely decrease our billion dollar profits"

And i think that should apply to just about everyone for whatever reason we end up paying more.

Banks rising rates just because the federal rate is thought about to cover themselves, yet they are making record breaking profits still.

CEO defensive as Commonwealth Bank records highest ever first-half profit | News.com.au

Edit: or worse yet, something needs to be done to stop them cutting jobs to keep their profits higher.

What I don't get with the Carbon Tax is:

The Co. pays the tax. Passes on the cost to the consumer. So where is the incentive for the Co. to do anything.

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and another tax

the 'green tax'

New $800 'green tax' mooted on homes - you must pay before you can sell | News.com.au

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Long live the WRC

Talking bout tax, heard the banks will raise the mortgage rates next month as well.
Feel sorry for all the working families out there.

Just wondering where all this money is going.
The national debt in Australia is $252,820,000,000 at this moment.

All thanks to the Labor supporters and dole bludgers.

I agree.
I was just talking about this the other day. I pay near enough to $3000/month towards my mortgage.
How does a family with a kid or two and stay at home mum with one average income afford to buy their own home?

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They don't, hense why rents are a lot higher now days in comparison to the value of the property being rented and its still not enough to cover the finance used to cover the purchase (yes this will be percentage of finance dependent).

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Wonder which utility or airline or phone company will be pawned off next?

As from Debt Clock Australia - Blog
I remember Labor's promise to bring Australia to surplus by then.... liesssss!!!

'Based on the data supplied by Federal and State (incl.Territories) Government, this debt is currently slated to hit in excess of $273 billion by 30th of June 2012, the country's biggest debt in history, with some experts predicting it closer to $400 billion... '