Left and right agree carbon tax is better
The CPRS is looking more and more like a hotted up second hand car. It sounded good in the advertisement, had all the fancy bits added on and looked really shiny and ready to go. Unfortunately the closer you look at it, the less reliable it gets. It might not be as fancy, but an old fashioned carbon levy would be a much more reliable way of getting from A to B, especially in these troubled economic times.
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