It seems unbelievable that small business is about to be delivered another blow by the carbon tax – yet the Labor Government just does not care.
Last week I visited a family-owned coffee-roasting business that has grown from a handful of employees on one site to now opening a second factory.
Beraldo Coffee is a classic family-owned business that government should encourage, not threaten with a massive new tax on energy, which will cost tens of thousands of dollars.
I wrote about this very issue in The Australian on Wednesday, emphasising the big stick approach of the Labor-Greens Government, and the threat of fines to further punish business.
Still on the carbon tax, did you know that every Australian will pay $563.49 each year for the next six years as the carbon tax is implemented? And that’s on top of our already increasing cost of living.
Now compare that to Europe, where EU citizens will each pay $1.62 – yes, less than two dollars – each year.
Source: Australian Trade and Industry Alliance.
This week I also registered my opposition to the carbon tax in the Senate.
My speech focused on what I believe is the driving agenda behind this carbon tax – achieving the objective outlined by Kevin Rudd to “put Government at the centre of the economy”. Labor and the Greens want more power and influence for Government so they can use it for patronage. But new technologies do not develop as a result of new taxes, and Australia and Australians will be worse off if our ability to compete is deliberately and consciously inhibited.
I have also issued a warning to Labor and the Greens, with their threat to again ignore whatever the will of the people is as expressed at the next election: “As every student of Australian political history knows, repudiating the right of the people to determine major policies will only end in tears for those who do so.”