Carbon tax is like a stink bomb in a very small car

Despite the kisses, the high-fives, the back slapping and the phony bon homie which accompanied the passage of the Labor-Green-independent carbon dioxide tax last week an overwhelming majority of voters think it stinks worse than rotten egg gas.

It's worse than a fart in a small car and the voters cannot wait to roll down the windows and blow this stench, and those who released it, right out. According to polls published in The Daily Telegraph and The Sydney Morning Herald today, the CO2 tax is making the punters gag. The Telegraph's Galaxy poll has 60 per cent opposed to it and the SMH-Nielsen poll finds 59 per cent want to flush it. The SMH, still looking for the pony in the pile of horse shit, brightly notes that Prime Minister Julia Gillard received a slight bounce in her personal popularity. But that is at such spectacularly low levels, the Fairfax journalists probably think a speed hump would give her a jump the height of Everest. It is tough finding supporters for the noxious carbon tax outside the ABC and Fairfax but the producers of the Insiders television program managed to dredge up two dinosaurs to join me on the show's panel Sunday. The SMH's always-hysterical David Marr and the morning presenter of the ABC's Radio National Fran Kelly collectively agreed that Gillard had scored a victory with the passage of this smelly Bill. A few more victories like this and she will be flushed out of office and into the oblivion her tortured administration has earned. The polls were also just a point apart on the two-party preferred vote, with Galaxy giving the Opposition a 58-42 lead and the SMH 57-43. But the big thumb's down was reserved for the carbon tax, and tellingly, Labor voters are now clamoring to oppose it, with a 5 per cent slide in support since August, according to the SMH figures. It must have been painful for the SMH to publish the figures, it has been championing Green activists, turning out the lights, riding bicycles, and it has been ignored. Here's why: the carbon dioxide tax will affect all Australians. It will not affect global warming, even a teensy bit, it will shuffle money off to dubious people in dodgy nations and the SMH will still think we should all celebrate. When challenged, the SMH and its Green readers have only one default position. It is based on the nonsense that it is the moral thing to do. Supporting a lie, a rort, a con, is never the moral thing to do.