Guardian: Starting a "floating" carbon price one year early is not such a big deal, really. The fact that every political party is screaming about it just proves how twisted the politics of this issue has become.
For Kevin Rudd, it's a way to reboot a debate Labor has been comprehensively losing, and provide businesses and households with some very short term cost relief.
The $3 billion or more the government now has to find in budget savings is the same amount business won't have to pay for carbon permits...