The whole purpose of a carbon tax is to force us to use less of every product or activity that produces that harmless gas-of-life, carbon dioxide.

A Carbon Tax for Everyone Else?

By Viv Forbes
Saturday, September 18, 2010

Is it sad to see the Big Australian joining Big Government, Big Unions and Big Business in supporting a Big New Carbon Tax.

The whole purpose of a carbon tax is to force us to use less of every product or activity that produces that harmless gas-of-life, carbon dioxide. The big producers are electricity, steel and other metals, petrol, diesel, cement, timber, beef, lamb, dairy, wool, travel and tourism.
A carbon tax is thus a tax on the cycle of life and the essentials of life. It aims to create artificial scarcity in all of these. Which ones does Mr. Kloppers plan to do without?

He says we can make this tax “revenue neutralâ€