by Sojourner » Sun Feb 27, 2011 10:31 pm
If things have changed why not then simply take the proposal for the Carbon Price to a referendum and allow the public to make their decision?
Irrespective of what politicians have promised and not delivered on, if GIllard stated that there would not be a Carbon Tax and now by her own admission she says that she was wrong and now there has to be, then the public should be given the opportunity to excersize our democratic right and vote it in or out accordingly.
Howard said there would not be a GST, then changed his mind and said that there would be, yet he took it to an election first. If Julia does not want to wait until the next election to let the people decide, then referendum seems to be the way to go, and if the answer is that they would not have it because it would be widely knocked back by the public, then perhaps that is a good reason not to do it in the first place and to come up with some other options to deal with the problem.
Reading the current election odds, the following data is given, - The Coalition has firmed from $2.20 to $1.67 as favourites to win the 2013 poll, Sportsbet says. Labor are now $2.20 outsiders to win the election, out from $1.65 when the market opened in September last year. Its been brought up before on here that the bookies odds are rarely wrong in terms of outcomes, yet what does Gillard hope to gain from the Carbon price? One would think the only outcome of it for the ALP as it currently stands is to bleed votes away from the party? Is going into coalition with the Greens and following a Green agenda a good enough reason to cling on to power for two more years if the government does actually see out the term, only to be smashed by the opposition and spend another 2-3 terms on the sidelines as what happened last time around?
Labor have promised that the poor wont be any worse off - yet they also promised that there would not be a Carbon Tax in the first place. Good luck to the ALP strategists in getting that to actually wash with the general public...
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