ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Why a carbon tax is self-defeating*


Before a couple of international calamities intervened, global warming and, in particular, the merits or otherwise of a “carbon tax” were dominating the local media.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard is apparently convinced that we must have a tax on anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions in order to combat climate change. By a small margin, the rest of us seem to disagree.

The PM makes no apology for the fact that her new discovery breaks an election promis…

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