| Here's a simple question for Andrew Leigh, Bill Shorten and the ALP: How much will electricity prices rise under your proposed carbon tax? On this page this week, Leigh advocated returning to a carbon tax. Of course it travels under the pseudonym of an emissions trading scheme or a carbon price, but whatever you call it, its purpose is to raise electricity, gas and refrigerant prices, among others.
Call it what you will, Bill, but at its core it’s an electricity tax that hurts business and families. Curiously, neither Bill nor Andrew will tell Australians how much they intend to increase electricity and gas prices, dodging the most important issue for 2015...............................................Full Article: Source
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