Australia introduces controversial carbon tax

[MrModerate]

4. I actually work for a company that works for one of Australia's resource giants . . .

No extra credit for guessing that the giant's name begins and ends with "B".

But I struggle with it. In my mind the company alluded to above and its fellows are ripping off the Australia public, paying piddling compensation for non-renewables and hauling the money away in boats. What's more, they bully the government at every level and pretty much get their way no.matter.what.

A year or so ago, the giants crushed a mining resources tax proposed by the center-left Labor Party that would have balanced the scale a trifling bit.

They didn't want to pay it and they bitch-slapped the government until it had to back down.

Years from now, the Australian people are going to be asking, "why did you let them rob us blind?" — and there won't be a good answer.