Honesty about carbon tax
It is very nice seeing Lucy Wicks' smiling face in the Peninsula News, again, but perhaps a bit of truth in political advertising would not go astray.
Please be honest when you say you will immediately scrap the world's biggest Carbon Tax.
People tend to believe that if the Coalition wins the election on September 14 then, on September 17, their electricity bills would reduce.
The Coalition needs to win both Upper and Lower Houses, which is very unlikely, to be able to do such a thing, and then that cannot even happen until July 2014.
More than likely what will happen is the Coalition will not win both houses, the Carbon Tax will not be scrapped and it will merely change to an ETS in 2015 as planned.
Also it is far from the world's biggest carbon tax, and don't get me started on linking low interest rates to government waste, debt and balancing the budget because her understanding of economics obviously leaves a lot to be desired, but let's not let facts get in the way of cheap slogans.
Email, 23 Mar 2013
Ross Cochrane, Woy Woy