Australia's PM gets It; Carbon Tax is Destructive of the Economy, Completely Ineffective and Pure Socialism

By Rob Janicki

Australia's new Prime Minister, conservative Tony Abbott, understands that Australia's carbon tax, enacted into law by the previous Labor Party majority, is just another socialist program that was enacted by the Labor Party to appease their environment constituency.  Read the entire article to appreciate Abbott's understanding of how damaging the carbon tax is on Australia's economy and how absolutely worthless it has been in reducing the atmospheric trace gas of carbon dioxide.
 


Australia’s newly elected prime minister pulled no punches when giving his thoughts on the country’s carbon tax, which he says must be abolished as quickly as possible.

“The carbon tax is bad for the economy and it doesn’t do any good for the environment,” Abbott told The Washington Post. “Despite a carbon tax of $37 a ton by 2020, Australia’s domestic emissions were going up, not down. The carbon tax was basically socialism masquerading as environmentalism, and that’s why it’s going to get abolished.”

“If the Labor Party wants to give the people of Australia a Christmas present, they will vote to abolish the carbon tax. It was damaging the economy without helping the environment. It was a stupid tax. A misconceived tax,” Abbott added.
Read the full article at the Daily Caller.