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| Carbon Tax is Redundant |
| 05.07.08 (12:04 pm) [edit] |
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The main argument for carbon tax is that it will have change people’s behavior. The thing is though that the raising cost of fuel is already doing that. A carbon tax is redundant. Fuel prices are only going to go up and up and that provides people with all the incentive they need to change their behavior. Adding a carbon tax makes such shock therapy all the more painful. This is no small point. There is no such thing as “revenue neutral” carbon tax and that is why Gordon Campbell, who despite what people in Toronto might think is only slightly more progressive than Mike Harris, and Charest like it so much. It is a way of shifting more of the tax burden onto lower income earners. Students, for example, do not pay much if anything in the way of income taxes. As it is they are facing a double whamming of higher fuel costs, those that have cars anyway, and higher grocery costs. A carbon tax will only make things worse. & nbsp;
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posted by: Scott Tribe (reply)
post date: 05.07.08 (1:04 pm)
..except you're falling for the Conservatives spin that somehow carbon tax = "gasoline tax", and its nothing of the sort.
posted by: barnabus1 (reply)
post date: 05.07.08 (1:04 pm)
Considering the earth has not warmen up an iota since 1998, is just more government control....or just another tax!!!
posted by: koby (reply)
post date: 05.07.08 (1:29 pm)
Of course it is gas tax Scott. It just happens to be other things are well. Natural gas will also be more expensive.