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Originally Posted by jhausner
The Carbon Tax is just a huge pile of BS anyway. It's the government's way of hoodwinking the population into thinking we are helping the environment.
"Oh we need to get more money out of your pockets..."
"NO NO MORE TAXES!!!"
"But it is a Carbon Tax... it will help the environment.. it is green and helps the planet."
"OH! Well if you put it that way... you aren't lying are you? It will really save the ozone and whales and stuff from polution right?"
"For sure!"
"Yay sure take more money from me!"
Pile of crap. I just with the government would go OK here is what we need to do in the next 30 years, and this is the cost structure over those 30 years for everything we need to do. Then we will add some overruns to account for things we can't see at this stage, and let's get going.
Not this putting a tax everywhere on everything in all places over and over to try and sneak "just a little bit more" like a drug addict. Just a little bit more. More money need a little more *tapping arm*...
Heck as it is right now tax on gas is tax on top of tax on top of tax. We get taxed on taxes!
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Hoodwinking us into thinking we're helping the environment? While the carbon tax isn't enough to curb consumer spending by itself it is just one part of the whole to decrease anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. And has been looked favourably by many other jurisdictions as the 'correct' way to institute a carbon tax.