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will carbon tax cost Australian jobs??

I suspect jobs lost in industry will be offset by the huge growth in the employment of brokers trading Carbon Futures.
It does look like we'll be doing more trading than emissions reduction.

there will be plenty of job losses and Australia will lose a lot of work and industries to overseas,there is plenty to suggest this so im not going to bother pasting all the articles as im sure most people with an interest would have read them all.

straight talker wrote:there will be plenty of job losses and Australia will lose a lot of work and industries to overseas,there is plenty to suggest this so im not going to bother pasting all the articles as im sure most people with an interest would have read them all.

There is no evidence that this will be the case and has been extensively covered in the other Carbon Tax thread.

Not sure why you've started another thread on the carbon tax if you can't be bothered providing evidence to support your argument. It's not a surprise though, as you clearly don't care about evidence and you probably don't even care about job losses, all you care about is seeing your team in power.

ok then il post a few just to keep you mods happy!

Its simple economics that it will cut jobs,

How good would it be if everyone supported Australian Owned and at least even Australian Made products? - Trouble is people don't, I suspect the majority of people are not even aware that 90+% of frozen vegetables sold in Australia contain grown in china product.

A number of Australian companies that supply Australian Supermarkets and other stores will have no option but to raise their prices of their goods because of the increased costs of making the products. Their competitors who import from countries like China and Taiwan where there is no carbon tax will not have to raise their prices and will likely get the lions share of the business as a result. Lower sales mean lower production which means Australian workers out the door.

No doubt there will be other businesses such as Solar Panel Makers, yet its also likely again that they will retail in Australia and manufacture in China. So where the replacement jobs are coming from and what training will be offered to up skill laid off workers is anyones guess, SFA is mine.

Problem could be quickly solved however if the ginger ninja simply passed a law to state that any product that comes from a nation that does not have an equivalent carbon tax gets it charged anyway to keep the playing field as it is now, so that people get the compensation and can continue on as they are currently, yet Tariff Protection has been progressively wound back by both Labor and the Liberals and industries like the Furniture making industry have been wiped out in Australia as a result, Considering either of them are not prepared to make tariffs the same as what it would cost Australian companies to export into the countries we currently import from I suggest that any companies that get into difficulty this time will simply be hung out to dry as the rest of them were.

straight talker wrote:http://www.manmonthly.com.au/news/carbon-tax-will-lead-to-job-losses--ridout

That's not evidence, it's opinion. I could also find opinion from industry execs suggesting that unemployment will not rise significantly if a carbon tax is introduced.

straight talker wrote:http://www.manmonthly.com.au/news/carbon-tax-will-lead-to-job-losses--ridout

ST your link to the "Man Monthly" website was blocked by my porn filter!

Q it is all opinion at this stage i guess so we will have to wait and see. it is also just opinion that the carbon tax in Australia will help the country too but you seem to think it will.!

I suppose one could suggest that other countries that have adopted carbon pricing recently offer some forms of evidence.

Yep, Oakeshott and Windsor ...

yep hope those 2 puppets will be gone along with gillard and swan. What has been the performance of other countries that have a carbon tax if any other country is silly enough to have one?? New Zealand have tried havnt they? Not real good tho was/or is it?

Switzerland would be comparable to Australia.

Evidence....God people on here over use that word!!!!

Yes, jobs will be lost but 9 out of 10 people will be better off!!!!

southee wrote:Evidence....God Labor people on here over use that word!!!!

Supporting a Carbon Tax doesn't automatically make one 'Labor'. Some of us see it as a bi-partisan issue, instead of an opportunity for political point scoring.

Quichey wrote:

southee wrote:Evidence....God Labor people on here over use that word!!!!

Supporting a Carbon Tax doesn't automatically make one 'Labor'. Some of us see it as a bi-partisan issue, instead of an opportunity for political point scoring.

Edited for accuracy ....no evidence to support that outlandish statement.

southee wrote:

Quichey wrote:

southee wrote:Evidence....God Labor people on here over use that word!!!!

Supporting a Carbon Tax doesn't automatically make one 'Labor'. Some of us see it as a bi-partisan issue, instead of an opportunity for political point scoring.

Edited for accuracy ....no evidence to support that outlandish statement.

You got in quick!

southee wrote:Evidence....God people on here over use that word!!!!

Yes, jobs will be lost but 9 out of 10 people will be better off!!!!

Thats a massive claim southee - I suppose you can back it up huh?

Darth Vader wrote:

southee wrote:Evidence....God people on here over use that word!!!!

Yes, jobs will be lost but 9 out of 10 people will be better off!!!!

Thats a massive claim southee - I suppose you can back it up huh?

Sorry Darth Vader.......I don't have the evidence

Im sure some on this board would though.......