Senate votes against abolition of carbon tax

[nero_bolt]

The ALP/Greens are now truly parties without any electoral future

Labor is a party of liars.

Australians are being held hostage by the minority and the radical greens and unelectable labor. 

Australians voted the LNP in to power in a landslide that decimated labor at the polls and they still dont get a clue or listen and the LNP was voted in on the platform of NO CARBON TAX,  thats what the majority of Australians wanted... yet we are being held hostage by a minority of rabble

Just how DUMB is Labor

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 Abbott government has failed in its first bid to scrap the carbon tax, with the Senate refusing to pass a package of bills to repeal the Gillard-era climate change policy.

After three months of debate, the package of nine bills was finally put to a vote in the upper house today only to be swiftly rebuffed by Labor and the Australian Greens.

The result prompted cries of “shame’’ from the Liberal benches, but there was little real emotion on either side.

Labor said it couldn’t support the repeal if it was to be replaced by the government’s direct action plan.

“Without a credible alternative, Labor cannot support the abolition of the existing clean energy policies,’’ shadow climate change spokesman Mark Butler said in a statement.

The opposition is standing by its support of an emissions trading scheme, which under existing legislation isn’t due to begin until July 2015.

Tony Abbott vowed to push on with the scrappingof the carbon tax and said Labor was breaking its commitment to remove the tax

“The carbon tax is an act of economic vandalism,’’ the Prime Minister told question time.

“You can’t trust (Labor) anywhere near an economy.’’

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/senate-votes-against-abolition-of-carbon-tax/story-...

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I wonder just how many Australians actually understand the carbon tax.

The question to ask those against it is ....why?

The question to ask those who support it is....why?

[silverfaun]

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@gkam2 wrote:

@acacia_pycnantha wrote:

Hey, Nero . . . they voted in a fair and democratic process . . . Get over it.

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It was a fair and democratic process that saw the Labour Government removed from office for its stubborn adherence to the job destroying Carbon Dioxide Tax.

The vast majority of Australians want the tax gone, it is just bloody mindedness for a Senate in its final months to refuse to acknowledge the will of the people. You may call that democratic in trying to justify a failed philosphy but the majority would not.

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This is more to do with obstruction than Labor policy.

They know they are on the nose, they know they were thrown out of power but the disappointed cannot grasp it.

Every day in question time you see the foot stamping and crying that they are now powerless in the reps,  so they have sucked on the dummy of their last grip on power and married the Greens AGAIN, which they have, to succor themselves with that minuscule comfort and to blazes with the voters, they know they are finished in the Senate come July.

They are spitting in the face of Australians, they are going down with the stinking rotting carcase of the CT and they know it.

They are now so sanctimonious they are trying to guilt everybody back on the "global warming" fiasco train  that is losing cred every day and the many are not going to drink their Kool Aid ever again.

Rudd didn't believe in it, Gillard wanted it gone, the Greens bent her over and she swallowed the bitter vetch of that wedding and betrayed the voters.