Axing the carbon taxes Now we mite be able to live again as the price of things may come down and now we have to get rid of the gst as then we can have a real life again and save money for a rainy day

He said the shelving of the tax to make way for an ETS with a floating price of around $6 a tonne would hit revenue by $3.8 billion over the forward estimates.

“We will make up the revenue with savings in other programs,” Mr Rudd said.

“This is carefully considered and we believe we have got the balance right."

Treasurer Chris Bowen outlined how the savings would be made which included a variety of climate schemes.

He said other savings would also be made including $1.8 billion from changes to fringe benefits tax arrangements relating to employer-provided cars.

“The world has moved on from when this system was introduced in 1986,” Mr Bowen said.

Public service efficiency dividends would also assist the savings task.

“These are not easy decisions to make, but they are the right decisions to make,” Mr Bowen said.

Treasury modelling shows that moving to a floating rate a year ahead of schedule, from July 1 next year, will ease the cost of living by $7.20 a week per family.

Mr Rudd said it was a stark contrast to Opposition Leader Tony Abbott’s climate scheme which would add $1200 a year to family budgets.

Carbon taxes and the price of living gst all prices have gone threw the roof for the fat cats to make more money

As we rely on people around the world to read the web sites and to tell the truth for other we strive to bring you the public the awareness of fraud and faulty and rip off scheme;s from government departments and blunders we strive to show you the public exactly who these thing effect you the tax payer as we are ausy and we are getting ripped with the gst there are no other countries that have this there are no other countries that have a carbon tax why are the ausy getting kicked in the teeth for these thing as we work hard for our money and spend our money and we get coped with these over head to pay the fat cats sitting in chairs more money to make blunders for the rest of the Australian to live in poverty as hawk said no child in Australia  will live in poverty that was his quote and look at us now as the ausy is battling with high fuel prices and power price high pricing of food and housing water gas we have to pay for clothing this just snow balls to making ausy a very hard place to live we were once a lucky country now we are starting to become a poverty country with all these crap gst and carbon taxes wait there more as the government's are waiting to hit the small person in the pocket they will find something more to do so mark my words as they only look out for them self we have to have our say and band together as one they make decision with out our consent yes we vote but our votes are not heard we we voice our opinions we are swept under the carpet we complain we get locked up these fat cats are running our lives stand in a line we will give you a card to see were you are spending to see were you are going to see who you are friends with camera all over the place with soft ware to recognise your face while you try and have your life as we dont have a private life as there is the police force that every single person who they pull over they treat like a criminal and run a check and speak rude to the older generation they taser the person they bully people they hit people and mame the person look on this website and there are samples of violent cops doing there job there are cops doing the wrong thing every were and getting away with it they are a law upon there self we are ausy and we deserve to be treated like ausy and not crims and further more we should not be getting rip of  so have your say on my page lets band together as we are ausy

Carbon pricing in Australia why is there a tax as this is sending companies away from down under

In October 2006 the Stern Review on the effect of climate change on the world's economy was released for the British government. This report recommended a range of measures including ecotaxes to address the market failure represented by climate change with the least amount of economic and social disruption. In response to this report and subsequent pressure from the Kim Beazley lead Labor opposition, in December 2006 the Howard Government established the Prime Ministerial Task Group on Emissions Trading, chaired by Peter Shergold, to advise on the implementation of an emissions trading scheme (ETS) in Australia.^[8] Following the release of the final report from this task group, the Howard government committed to introduce an ETS.^[9][10]

Going into the 2007 federal election, the Labor opposition party presented itself as a "pro-climate" alternative to the Government, withKevin Rudd, who had by then deposed Beazley as leader, famously describing climate change as "the great moral challenge of our generation". Labor differentiated itself from the government by promising an ETS with an earlier start date of 2010 rather than the 2012 timeframe advocated by Howard. It also promised ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, investment in clean coal and renewable energy, and slightly more aggressive targets for renewable energy.^[8]

Labor won the 2007 election, and on 3 December 2007 the Rudd Government signed the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol at the 2007 United Nations Climate Change Conference. By ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, Australia was committed to keeping emissions to no more than 108% of its 1990 emissions level by 2012. Australia's ratification came into effect on 11 March 2008.^[11]

In September 2008, the Garnaut Climate Change Review, commissioned in April 2007 by Kevin Rudd when he was leader of the opposition, released its final report. Garnaut recommended a price between $20 and $30 per tonne of carbon dioxide (CO₂) equivalent with a rise of 4% each year.^[7] On 16 July 2008, the Rudd Government released a green paper for its Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), outlining the intended design of the scheme; a more detailed white paper was released on 15 December 2008.

The CPRS received criticism from both sides of the climate change debate. Environmental lobby groups protested that the emissions reductions targets were too low, and that the level of assistance to polluters was too high. Industry and business lobby groups however argued for more permits and assistance to offset the economic impacts of the scheme on many enterprises, particularly given the context of the global financial crisis.^[8] The Malcolm Turnbull lead opposition supported the scheme in principle, although at times over 2009 they indicated disagreement with various details including the timing of implementation of the scheme, timing of the vote on the relevant legislation and on the level of assistance to be provided to polluting industries. The opposition was able to negotiate greater compensation for polluters affected by the scheme in November 2009.^[8]

Shortly before the Senate was due to vote on the relevant bill, leadership tensions in the opposition came to a head.^[12] On 1 December 2009 Tony Abbott defeated Malcolm Turnbull in a leadership challenge. Abbot immediately called a secret ballot on support for the ETS among coalition MPs, which was overwhelmingly rejected.^[13] The Coalition then withdrew their support for the carbon pricing policy and joined the Greens and Independents in voting against the relevant legislation in the Parliament of Australia on 2 December 2009.^[14] As the Rudd government required the support of either the Coalition or the Greens to secure passage of the bill, it was defeated in the Senate. In April 2010, the Government deferred the scheme to the post-2012 timeframe