The government is expected to axe the carbon tax boost set for April Fool's Day. The move is credited to beer and the government's fear of losing re-election.
The countdown is on. It’s 17 days until the next potential capitulation by a government trying to plug the drain that’s sucking its re-election into a death spiral. Expect the carbon tax boost set for April Fool’s Day to be axed. And you can credit beer for the move.to two per cent from 4.5 per cent and froze future increases until after the next election, it almost guaranteed a similar carbon tax move in the offing.
There is simply no political calculus which would allow a freefalling government to reduce beer taxation while maintaining a significant tax boost on gasoline and natural gas which inflates the cost of trucking groceries to stores and heating our homes. A flipflop is particularly predictable for this federal government, which has proven over and over that it has the spinal fortitude of a rubber band and the moral compass of a weather vane. Punting any and everything with the slightest whiff of poll-dropping controversy until after the 2025 election has now become this government’s modus operand
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