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As usual with the first hint of a bit of bad news out they come, arms waving, screaming themselves hoarse, bleating, whinging, moaning, etc, etc and etc and screaming carbon tax. This has happened again with the sad news that Toyota are laying off staff; a significant number of staff. However the cries for blood sound hollow both as regards the "blame" being placed on the carbon tax and the conclusions being drawn that the government is sitting on its hands doing nothing.

The Aussie dollar is now forty percent higher against the US dollar average since it's float in the mid 1980's. All the commentators who discount this as being insignificant are either biased or ignorant of the facts. Yet this is the reality when we have bleaters going on about the carbon tax which is yet to make it's "hit". These moaners are either dishonest - saying something when they know very well that the opposite is true or ignoramuses. I suspect that the former holds. Where did these people stand on the resource tax. They stood against it to a man. Yet, as was explained to them the resource tax was being brought in because of the rise in the dollar and the impact that the rise would have on the non-mining sectors of our economy. Well all I can say is keep moaning, groaning, whinging etc and etc about the resource tax but please don't annoy my ear with complaints about the tax on miners.