TA wants Labor to repent?!!!!!!!!!!!

[***super_nova***]

Repent for what?  For trying the country make cleaner, for trying to encourage use of alternative power sources, for reducing our emissions and reducing our impact on environment? 

And he is telling one big fat lie that abolishing the carbon tax will help people.  In fact most people will be worse off:

[cherry*135]

Not EVERY household will be better of by $550, Tony.

Today

Households to be $550 'ahead'

TONY Abbott has promised households will be $550 a year better off as a result of the abolition of the carbon tax, with power prices falling 9 per cent and gas prices falling 7 per cent.

In releasing draft legislation for the carbon tax repeal laws yesterday the Prime Minister said repealing the tax would take the pressure off electricity prices.

Mr Abbott said that if the carbon tax repeal legislation was passed, the government estimated the average household power bill would be $200 a year lower and the average gas bill would be $70 a year lower.

"While the carbon tax will be gone, the household assistance already provided will remain to help families with the cost of living," the Prime Minister said.

The draft laws say households will be able to keep the tax cuts that were associated with the introduction of Labor's carbon tax package in 2011.

The tax cuts that will remain include the increase in the tax-free threshold from $6000 to $18,200 and increased payments for pensioners of $338 for singles and $510 for couples. Family Tax Benefit Part A was also increased by an extra $110 a child.

A second round of tax cuts, which envisaged increasing the tax-free threshold to $19,400, will not go ahead. Labor had already deferred these tax cuts in the 2012 budget for a saving of $1.4 billion in the years 2015-17.

The then Labor government justified the deferral on the basis that projected carbon prices had fallen below the $29 price projected for 2015-16.

With the Coalition relying on lower electricity prices, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will be given additional powers to stop price gouging. Good

- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/policy/households-to-be-550-ahead/story-e6frg6xf-12...

[monman12]

A3: "Why can't any poster be partial (biased) in their posts if they want to be? This is a discussion board."

They can be as biased as they wish A3, but they need to post facts,  not unresearched  nonsense that appeals to their bias. e.g.:

t"hey havent written it , but they definitely said they would (like so much else ndis)                                                                                 Lower the tax-free threshold from $18,200 to $6000"

That article is  somewhat dated LL,  and was an opinion, how about one from the same era, and a direct quote from Abbott courtesy of the ABC:  http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-16/abbott-vows-to-keep-tax-cuts/4694860

"A Coalition government will keep the current income tax thresholds and the current pension and benefit fortnightly rates while scrapping the carbon tax," he said.

"The carbon tax will go, but no-one's personal tax will increase and no-one's fortnightly pension or benefit will reduce."

[lakeland27]

they may have made conflicting statements themselves as they did on most matters.  they weren't pulled up for this lack of clarity pre election so its no surprise we have so many foggy unknown policy areas. the point is it was policy at one time, even if that was only five minutes or so.