Globe and Mail- Canadians aren’t crazy to think that carbon pricing is hurting their pocketbooks
The government doesn’t talk about the fact the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) found last year that carbon pricing leaves a majority of households financially worse off once its impact on the economy is considered. There will be reduced growth in employment earnings and investment income resulting from higher carbon costs, the report said. The PBO said the highest-earning 60 per cent of households in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta are worse off under carbon pricing than if the policy did not exist, while the bottom 40 per cent are somewhat better off.
The idea that carbon pricing is required equally across the country has long been in question. No one in Ottawa appears to have taken any umbrage with the fact the price on pollution in Quebec is lower than what is demanded in other provinces, including emissions-heavy Alberta and Saskatchewan.
“The idea that carbon pricing is required equally across the country has long been in question…
Here, let me finish that sentence for you:
… by useful idiots. Thinking people know that it is not required at all.
I want to kick every dooshnozzle in the privates, everytime I hear them say “climate pollution”.
If you don’t work, you still get healthcare, now dental care and always welfare. Plus a carbon tax rebate. The loony left believes every job – no matter the skill required – should be a job that can support and feed a family and provide food and shelter with enough cash left over for a vacation. And don’t forget the free food available from the local do gooders and free drugs to get high! And ‘they’ wonder why productivity in Canada is poor and people in high stress jobs are leaving the country for warmer climes where hard work is rewarded.
Democrats enacted a carbon tax here in Washington State, raising fuel prices by $0.50 / gal.
Naturally, Democrats blamed greedy oil companies for passing on their tax to the consumer.
Carbon taxes comprise 25% of natural gas bills in BC.
40% compared to the provision, transportation and storage of natural gas.
How is that insignificant besides being just one more tax to burden us, which is the true argument?
My last natural gas bill
– cost of gas = $40. The actual gas cost
– carbon tax $48
Are the 40% in the demographic more likely to vote Trudeau?
A tax on a tax on a tax that compounds itself on everything that moves, or sits at home.. Another green level of government on your head.. Its globalist tyranny.. The goals and outcome are as opaque as Trudeau’s double speak.. F your carbon tax..
Meh.
Canadians are so stupid,they believe the GST only costs them 5%.
You get what you vote for.
The stupid has become unquantifiable.