"....How many consumers had less to spend due to the high cost...

"....How many consumers had less to spend due to the high cost of electricity under the carbon tax? Measures like the carbon tax are there to bankrupt business and the middle class....."

Yet things like increasing GST to 15% is somehow better.

Cutting revenue without any regard for the budget and putting the budget under more duress was stupid, regardless of any philosophical arguments about the merits one way or the other of the Carbon Tax.