Abolish the monarchy? Cool
Recognition of the State of Palestine? Cool
Abolishing the consumer carbon tax? Depends on how else he plans to deal with the climate change crisis.
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I am ambivalent at best about the carbon tax.
No, it does not cause inflation or tooth decay as PP would have folks believe.
But it also doesn't really do very much about the #climatecrisis either. Legislative, regulatory and programmatic change would accomplish much more.
The carbon tax is a neo-liberal "we done something about the climate crisis" policy.
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@leftylabourtech and pushes the cost to consumers, bc all costs get pushed to the consumer, and only (incorrectly) fuels distaste of climate initiatives among the most economically vulnerable.
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@benda The costs of the carbon tax to low income consumers is nil to negligible due to rebates...so the impact is not as PP would have people believe.
But, OTOH, it also does very little to deal with the climate crisis and so I find that this carbon tax "debate" is largely a culture war debate about nothing.
Instead we could be talking about real job creating measures to transform the energy system.
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