One of the delusions of life in Canberra is that laws passed on Capital Hill have a big-bang impact on the rest of the country. In the latest manifestation of this myth, both sides of politics have portrayed the carbon tax as an epoch-defining reform. Labor and the Greens have lifted expectations about the tax’s impact on climate change when, in reality, it will affect national income distribution much more than it will the environment.
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