Carbon tax backfires big-time in Australia

Reported By The Blaze on 2013-09-06 

 “The ruling Labor Party’s probable collapse in Australia’s next election is largely the consequence of its qualified success in the last one three years ago. To form the coalition she needed to stay in power, then-Prime Minister Julia Gillard reneged on a promise and agreed to place a carbon tax on major polluters. On Saturday, the bill for that bargain comes due. Voters have never stopped hating the tax and its effect on their electric bills. Longtime Labor Party supporters

even people who have helped cut pollution by installing solar panels at home

have flocked to the opposition….”