LF

From the twaddle in your last post, you obviously have no economic qualifications whatsoever. The assumption that none of these businesses are competing with overseas companies, or on line sales, and all will happily be able to put up their prices without losing business is based on ignorance.

Lexi,

When Abbott becomes PM, you can blame the carbon tax.

For all it’s feared effects the Carbon Tax remains very much a poor cousin when compared to that great moral challenge of our age, AGW.

Here is just a few of its touted effects:

1) Hotter summers
2) Colder summers
3) Warmer winters
4) Colder winters
5) Early springs
6) Late Autumns
7) More rain
8) Less rain
9) Bigger badder storms
10) Volcanic eruptions
11) Earthquakes
12) Bigger and badder floods
13) Bigger and badder droughts
14) More civil unrest
15) Water wars in the undeveloped world.
16) More famines
17) More pestilence
18) The proliferation of weeds and feral animals
19) Malaria epidemics
20) More colds and flu
21) More old people dying in their homes of heat stroke,alone and unloved.
22) Oh, yes, and more Arthritis, Gout, Lumbago, Sciatica and general maladies (studies have shown conclusive that since the advent of AGW there has been a huge increase in the number of people reporting pains in their rear-ends)

And, some have the hide the whine about the Carbon Tax!

lets compare the worth of the carbon tax revenue raising
that ?..2 billion bailout..of floodies
only going to cost us a cup of coffee per day

so how much cough-fee
will we self funders need to find

will we be paying REAL TAX PAID
[by 500 poluters]..please verify
or will we be charged wether they got them for free or not

i feel the real tax burden..is up to 90%..less
on those..who get 90% free emisssion..[yet we pay full]

the true taxed 500 is hiden
because the true payers of the tax will be 22 million paying
some got free gifts..some get free polution..cause their greenhouse gas isnt taxed

braket creep[once hyper stagflation klicks in]
means even you lot too clever by half[with solar top up credits
that you forfeited carbon credit on]..will soon then too feel the pain..and then curse the liars name's[and their party][hopefully see all parties are the same

its the two party game
you blame me
i blame you
and we both keep doing..as two partyy systems do
[serve our past bosses adgendas..ie for the corperate seats]

If Mr Abbott becomes Prime Minister,
and he isn't able to repel the
carbon tax - will Mr Abbott then resign
or will he quote "changed circumstances.?"

After all he only takes responsibility for
pledges that are written down.

what[dear lexie]..if he reduced it
[down to the euro carbon rate..[$7]
and thats all he needs do

if he touched the tax free rate increase
[in his de-legislation]..before the double disolution
is doudtfull..but the only way lab can hope to not loose
[not the same as winning][liars cant win][yet often do..revealing much]

liars lie
say anything..then do as their told.

SM, there is export assistance for the CT impact on exporters, directly or via state governments who decide how to apportion it. Must every fact be restated as if it were unknown to you? You know perfectly well that domestically, what I wrote above in relation to the relative competitive positions of businesses competing intra-nationallyis is entirely correct, and that the "compensation" you demand for them lies in raising their prices.

Regarding internet sales, GST is the major issue for domestic shopfront retailers so they are joining in with their own sites located o/s, like Gerry Harvey. The carbon tax is dwarfed by several magnitudes of ten taking all cost inputs into account, as you well know, unless you are the one with no economic idea here.

To heck with the facts, tho', the carbon tax did it, oh yeah!