For many things we have no choice but to buy from the polluting suppliers (think gas and electricity. I think they're pretty essential to life, don't you think?) and therefore we will be hit with massive increases as they pass every cent of their increases on to us. They will not wear any of it. I'm not talking about place where we will actually have a choice (I bought my Miele frontloader because it was cleaner technology - high efficiency, low water use, low power use etc) - I'm talking about products and services we have no choice over. You can bet your boots that Alinta and Synergy will be boosting the end-price to consumers by the full amount of the carbon tax, knowing full well we can't go anywhere else (since solar is still cost-prohibitive for the vast majority of people).
Compensation will more than likely be doled out the way the nice little payments were for the GFC - those on Centrelink payments and those paying tax (up to a certain point) - but the catch for non-Centrelink recipients, like the incentives payment, will be you must be a family i.e. you must have kids to get anything approximating the real increase. Anything else will be a token amount, and only for those already earning an income. People like me will miss out - again - so our single-income non-family will be worse off again - or I will be forced to get a job that will make me sick all over again, just to make ends meet. We're almost at that point now with everything going up so much (our rates are going up 12% this year - 7% more than any other council in the metro area).
Yes I'm cynical - about the government, about their intentions, about their truthfulness and transparency - or lack thereof. And there's no propaganda in the world that can change that.
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Compensation will more than likely be doled out the way the nice little payments were for the GFC - those on Centrelink payments and those paying tax (up to a certain point) - but the catch for non-Centrelink recipients, like the incentives payment, will be you must be a family i.e. you must have kids to get anything approximating the real increase. Anything else will be a token amount, and only for those already earning an income. People like me will miss out - again - so our single-income non-family will be worse off again - or I will be forced to get a job that will make me sick all over again, just to make ends meet. We're almost at that point now with everything going up so much (our rates are going up 12% this year - 7% more than any other council in the metro area).
Yes I'm cynical - about the government, about their intentions, about their truthfulness and transparency - or lack thereof. And there's no propaganda in the world that can change that.