Truth is she has ****ed quantas and all other manufacturing in Australia. how can we compete competitively with lower wage competition now a ****en carbon tax? you guys ****ed it good and proper voting for this bitch.
With the carbon tax most manufacturing is cheaper out sourced?Qantas i trying to be competitive You voted labor to try and saved jobs that are just outsourced overseas? thanks
carbon tax is the last straw to promote Chinese manufacturing. http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/business/a/-/wa/9143617/austal-boss-considers-sending-more-work-offshore/
this is just the taste/start of globalization.You lazy ****s better have to work and compete with 417 visas and 12 dollars an hour ....Chinese manufacturing..
good times are over.
****en finnished. feel sad for you dumb ****s who voted her in.Oh why did you vote for again?
dont get me started on this slapper ffs.
Waiting for the next election.
The Federal ALP is finished. They will lucky if they have enough MPs to make up a shadow cabinet. Fancy bringing in a new tax when the world economy is going down the drain. A pack of geniuses.
People will know who jacked up their electricity prices by 20%
Its a joke that we have to pay for higher energy prices than places like China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea. Places that import coal and gas from us.
It's also a piece of absolute hypocrisy we will have to have a tax on carbon dioxide emissions because "it's the greatest moral challenge of our time" when meanwhile we are digging and pumping out every bit of hydrocarbon we can find and flogging it off to whoever has the cash.
We can look forward to ALP/Green propoganda campaigns paid for by us, telling us how awesome the ALP/Greens are and how better off we are to be paying more.
Probally to protest about the next disaster that the cow has let slip into our lives.
Coal seam gas !!!
Buster it's "Qantas" Queensland and Northern Territory Air Service...not Quantas... Queensland Ukraine and Northern Territory Air Service
Who knows with this carbon tax in europe the price of carbon has dropped to $8 a ton, if it was just introduced as a new tax and nothing to do with carbon would everyone still be kicking up a fuss?
Maybe we'll end up like poor old Germany and have The Greens in power for two terms, and look what happened to them!
...wait, what?
Both sides are really two sides of the same coin. Just a difference of degrees, not direction.
Former treasurer Peter Costello wrote a newspaper piece about the negotiations for the GST when Howard was PM. They were trying to work out a deal with the Democrats. Meg Lees wanted something for human induced climate change research. Costello whispered to Howard, 400. Howard said 400 million. Costello said he meant 400 thousand.
Whether this story is true or not is not really the point. The point is both sides are quite happy to p!ss our money up against the wall on rubbish and then bemoan the fact we have to increase revenue to maintain the finances.
Its not a revenue problem, its an expenditure problem. Always has been, always will be.
Same, same, same but different!
The carbon tax protesters have probably been doing a bit of thinking and realise it's a dead issue. Given we've happily been paying $50 plus per tonne for years to put unwanted solids in landfill, what do you think is a reasonable price to put unwanted gases in the atmosphere? I predict it will be a non-issue at the next election.
Totally selling the voters short for choice and long term vision IMO.
punter out there.
I Won't get a tax cut due to the increase in marginal rates. In fact, I will pay more income tax as well as more for everything else
Bring on the next election and a double dissolution after if necessary.
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Essentially a move in the right direction, in simplistic terms taxes should be on consumptions not earnings.
It's better to tax income than consumption. Taxing consumption is inefficent and bad for the economy because consumers can afford to spend less. Taxing the rich is the most efficent form of tax because their consumption won't change as they have more money than they need.
If all this was happening 5 years earlier when everything was going great guns then it would possibly be a bit more rational.
As it is, with the whole world teetering on the edge of financial disaster, this is NOT the time to be reworking the engines to see if they can drag a few percent more out of them or be made to run a bit cleaner with their mining super tax and carbon tax.
In seems this government hasn't noticed, the very industries that they are now turning on are the only industries that are providing us with any protection against going the same way as the rest of the western world.
The envious financial position that was left to this government was not provided bythe agricultural industry, the tourist industry, the car industry, the smart Australia industry, or any industry,... other than the mining industry. Like it or not, that's the fact.
When this government has finished kicking the life out of this industry then we will have nothing and we can all join the Greeks, Italians, Spanish, Irish, Americans, etc etc, who are just as demanding of benefits but too lazy to work for them as we are.
I'm not really surprised. Almost every decision they've made has been short sighted in the extreme.
And that will not change while the government is controlled by ex union leaders and green idealists.
And if anyone thinks all this is good policy, an indication of just how bad it is can be seen by the fact that they are having to buy everyones support by promising 90 percent of the population that they will give them more money than they had before. What a joke.
It assumes that the remaining 10 percent who will be called on to pay the 90 percent all this extra money wont just pack up and go down the beach, or move elsewhere.
It's typical socialist policy. It ends up making everyone equally poor, not equally rich.
