SIMS- The carbon tax is a no rebate rip-off
The PBO released a report showing the majority of Canadian families will pay more in the carbon tax than they will get back in rebates within the next eight years.
“Household carbon costs will exceed the Climate Action Incentive payments households receive,” writes Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux. “Most households in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario will see a net loss resulting from federal carbon pricing. That is, the costs they face — including the federal carbon levy, higher GST and lower incomes — will exceed the Climate Action Incentive rebate they receive.”
Liberals have learned that with tame media coverage they can lie, lie, and lie some more.
They’re coming to kill your gas powered vehicles and small engines as well.
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/biden-infuriates-environmentalists-and-oil-refiners-allowing-more-ethanol-gas
Try to mix oil in this concoction has knocked off a multitude of small engines that need to mix oil in the gas.
If you can afford it buy premium with no ethanol.
I have been running premium in my small motors like forever, after several carb rebuilds.
If you cant afford it , run the ethanol crap and then if you don”t use the machine for a week or more either drain/shut off the tank/run the engine till the carbs are empty , then refill with a small amount of premium.
I always try to use the synthetic oil mix, it seems to do better with the crap fuel.
joe, WTF is the point of a tax if you give any of it back to the taxed? Have I mentioned that Canadians are really, really, really, really stupid?
Canadians will fall for any phony-baloney scheme if they think they’re going to get free money out of it in the end.
So the pleading that it was simply to reduce CO2 and not a Liberal tax grab was all bullshit. Did Turdeau lie to the courts?
Were his lips moving?
Brought to you by Just-Meat Singh-Dough and their Collusion Party.
A tax that will bankrupt clean Canadian factories here and drive production to the coal powered factories in China.
Which means more overall CO2 and real pollution, not less.
Has anyone ever seen a Liberal who can understand the concept of cause and effect?
Not one. Ever.
It’s part of their DNA.
They understand perfectly what they’re doing.
It will be blamed on Harper. The cult will repeatedly chant the mantra.
the biggest problem is that the tax is hidden in prices, making it very hard to calculate how much you end up paying, and of course allowing the government to charge GST/HST on the Carbon Tax…
80% of households were never better off paying the tax and getting a rebate, even at $10/tonne
I’d argue that number is 100%. The cost of administering the tax is never entered into the equation.
On you gas bill it is >60% of the cost of gas.
For all of the “science” behind it you may as well call it a unicorn fart tax.
How unexpected.
In other news, scientists have discovered that water is wet. Really, what did you expect?
Yesterday I received my bribe, er rebate, from Douggie for my car stickers: $700!! Now, who do you think will pay for this generosity?
Yes, it’s like a pick-pocket asking you for a reward for finding your wallet.
Does that include the effects of inflation? Because if you’re getting a later rebate in inflated dollars, you’re getting even less.
The carbon tax and renewable energy fraud is the prime driver of inflation. On top of that many retailers are gouging the public using the confusion over the tax as a cover. It’s going to get much worse in the coming months and will never return to what we once considered normal.
Shocka.
I have a young family of four (she’s my niece) visiting us here in Saskatchewan from Ottawa. They are as green and leftwing as you can get. They drive a hybrid back in Ottawa, and think that the carbon tax is the best thing ever. I am a small farmer and tried many times to explain what the carbon tax is doing to my business. The tax is mostly hidden, but by my calculations, it costs me about $500 more per quarter section per year in carbon tax, to farm.The resulting blank stares say it all. Oh, and every time I go in my basement where they have taken over two bedrooms and a bathroom as well as the rest of the lower level, I am turning off every light switch that they have carelessly left on after leaving for the day. Also, when they leave for good and head back to the safety of their fortified city of Ottawa, I will be left with bags of stinky, single use diapers as a thankyou.
Give them a copy of Thomas Sowell’s Basic Economics.
Sneak it into one of the kid’s suitcases.
You’re far more tolerant of their garbage (and I don’t mean the diapers) than I would be. I would get in my truck and lay on the horn every night starting around 1 AM. They came from Ottawa to educate you so go out of your way to make them feel unwelcome
Charge them an “environmental” levy on their stay (they are effectively changing the dynamic of your environment/microclimate).
Include line items, such as electricity for the lights left on (including carbon tax), disposal fee for the diapers (include carbon tax on that as well, and explain that plastic diapers are made from oil)
Lodging fees (room/board) which includes water, sewer, food and their sources.
At the bottom of the bill, place taxes on the entire bill, call it “education tax”.
They may not “get it”.
They may never return..
Such is life…
“If people are not allowed to suffer the consequences of their own actions, you will fill the world with fools.”
Did people really believe the carBONE tax was going to be “revenue neutral”? This country is filled with low IQ losers.
No one in BC gets a rebate and we pay the highest carbon tax in the country. Of course a lot of idiots out here think that’s fine because we are saving the planet.
The same idiots who believe wearing face diapers is fine because it saves lives.
Don’t know why this is a big shock.
This was told to Canadians during the 2015 election.
But they wanted someone that would tell them a comfortable lie instead of an uncomfortable truth.
Ah, remembering the “revenue neutral” GST.
The elementary rhetorical question should always be: Why would gubment go through so much bother in order to grab $0.
Taxes are never revenue neutral or temporary.
Do not recall the GST ever being billed as “revenue neutral”, but it was sold as being used only to pay down the national debt. Once the Liberals got back into power in ’93 (after promising to get rid of it) and saw how much it was bring in. It went to general funding pool ASAP.
I may be mistaken, but I was in my early twenties then and did not pay as much attention to pollical lies as I do now.
Are Canadians getting cheques that they can spend on Cheetos?
Then what do they care?
If the Lieberals, Dippers and Watermelons are so concerned, they should all stop exhaling. The problem would be solved instantly.
Shocked, absolutely shocked I tell you to learn this.
Everything about climate change is part of a scam.
Everything.
Which is why liberals and democrats LOVE it.
Is anyone surprized. What government has ever iontroduced a tax that didn’t bring in money?
All the CAGW-inspired social engineering, price-distortions, billions in rent-seeking and science-corrupting bounty, bankster and financial (mindless) ESG virtue signaling, mind-numbing propaganda and hysteria-pimping from the western nations representing a billion souls apparently tired of prosperity – will accomplish not a measurable blip on the planetary climate change needle. The remaining nations representing 7 billion souls willing to give prosperity a shot will more than compensate for our folly, faith-based hysteria, and culturally-driven suicidal ruin.
What rebate? The proverbial check must be in the mail.
The idiots actually expected a rebate?
From the tax on everything?
VOWG,Canadians are beyond stupid.
We need a better descriptor than Stupid..Liberal?
NDP?
Conservative,of the progressive kind?
“I am Canadian Stupid” .?
Carbon tax was obvious,they could have just upped the GST,but a “Carbon Tax” means gouging everything that is transported,heated or built..And,the true bonus..A whole new bureau of Justine’s New Middle Class,was created..
Employment numbers are up! Yeah..
Did all the prison guards and staff of the 3rd Reich mean employment numbers were up?