15 reasons against carbon tax, page-11

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    delisted, you mean the Libs policy that makes farmers bear the brunt of the effort with little reward and lots of cost?

    The same farmers who are suffering most from climate change, with drought and floods and fires, would have to use somewhere between 20% and 70% of their cropland and pastures to 'renew carbon' each year for the next nine years, and get paid only around $3/hectare for the privilege (probably less than 30% of the price that Labour would put on carbon). And that's assuming there are no droughts or other adverse conditions that would remove the carbon they've managed to 'renew'. It's not clear if the Libs would make the farmers return any money in a drought year.

    (For those who don't know, the Libs policy will make farmers responsible for more than 60% of the Libs proposed carbon reductions by making them implement soil carbon renewal programs.)

    Hope you don't mind eating imported food if the Libs get their way. And don't mind the terms of trade going pear-shaped.
 
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