"Of cause the sky won't fall in come July 1........." then why does the opposition assert its falling in?

".....as the damage may take up to years to surface......" don't you mean the benefits?

".....as unlike most workers, business owners can't just take their ball and go elsewhere, as most have their family homes on the line." as do competing businesses up the road to no nett effect, but expect price rises in goods and services, which is what the income tax cuts and pension rises compensate.

A rhetorical question, when will whingers get off the BNT shock-horror mantra and acknowledge compensatory offsets?

The carbon tax made me miss my bus today, oh yeah.

Ludwig.We are wasting our time.The Govt parasite will never admit it is feeding off the host of real productivity.Sustainable development is the code word for enviro fascism.

<< Sustainable development is the code word for enviro fascism >>

Oh please, Arjay!

Sustainability is essential. Think about it.

And the carbon tax is but one tiny step in the right direction.

The task becomes more difficult.
That task?
In the hands of the non conservatives, non powerful and rich, who seek control?
Truth.
Little of it exists in most posts here,even less understanding.
GST in fact had far more impact, maths! it is just true.
We see no understanding posted as truth.
A time nears, here and world wide, that needs ordinary folk to stand up and be counted.
Gina's madness, throwing cash away to buy a paper to preach the lie, climate change lie, needs to be fought.
Our first weapon? see the failure to even see truth, in its foot soldiers here.

@All the Carbon Tax apologists,

Still, it is somewhat ironic and highly amusing that the same people/groups who are greatly affronted if ANYthing nasty (economywise) is attributed to the Carbon Tax, are quite happy to see EVERYthing nasty, be it, storms, bush fires, epidemics or famine attributed to AGW.

As the saying goes: “what goes around comes around