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The Labor Government threw away money and thus allowed people to buy lots of imported Chinese goods.

They called it a "stimulus package".

So they ran out of all the money treasury held in reserve.

They also promised to balance the budget by 2013.

They therefore need to collect about $20 billion more to get even near their promise.

But more taxes means they loose votes.

Solution: invent a tax and call it"caring for the planet".  And don't call it a tax. Call it a "price on carbon".

On average every Australian, every year, produce about 22 tonnes of carbon dioxide. Our Prime Minister hints at a "carbon price" of $26 per tonne for that CO2.

So 20,000,000 Australians; times 22 tonnes each, times $26 per tonne, and they get the $11 billion extra per year they need. Two or three years collections at that rate and Gillard can claim, and imaginatively "prove" how well they manage the economy. On average, for every Australian man, women and child, it amounts to $550 per year.

Industrial enterprises are not benevolent societies; so their prices for their goods and services, will rise so they can continue to make their five or ten percent on turnover.

Australia's vast middle class, earn a lot more than the small number of rich people in our society. So whose pocket does the money come from?

That's just the money; to make it even sillier, there has never been any marketing research done to even suggest that a "price on carbon" will significantly lower Australia's CO2 emissions. Not one!

So we are expected to pay $11 billion per year to the Federal Government, on Julia Gillard's personal opinion and supposed marketing expertise, that her "tax on carbon ", with no realistic alternative energy available, will stop us using refrigerators - stop us switching on the lights when it gets dark, and stop us driving to work every morning.

She must believe we are all plain stupid.