So long, carbon tax on home heating in Saskatchewan!
And that’s what my dad, an 80-year-old retired farmer pensioner, paid in carbon tax last January, when it was still $50/tonne. And April 1, it will be $80 per tonne. How the hell is he supposed to make those payments on the carbon tax? Just not eat? Thankfully, we removed the shop heating, so that will make a huge difference. Now the neighbour gets to deal with that.
See, it’s working, by elimination of the shop heat, he’s saving co2 and money! But rather than be a net income for him, Scott Moe is going ruin all of this, and low income families are going to lose all that free money!
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Et tu, Blubberus Douggie?
So you do like crown corporations owned by the provincial government? Because that’s the only reason Saskatchewan can do this.
Oh, I wasn’t expecting His Yellowness to take any action, we know that’s out of the picture.
But maybe a statement like this?
“It’s purely a Pigovian tax only and has nothing to do with any service the government is providing. It’s entirely reasonable to ask how taxing CO2 will reduce CO2 when there is no alternative at any price.”
Whatever it takes to push Ottawa back under its slimy rock.
That’s sensible, Art. Ontario can’t do what Saskatchewan did, because it would be requiring the privately owned gas companies to take the statutory risk. And no private company will ever be allowed to do that by its shareholders. So Doug Ford cannot do what Scott Moe can do.
Has the government ever explained what good or service they are providing to justify why there is yet another tax on the carbon tax?
Never.
It’s purely a Pigovian tax only and has nothing to do with any service the government is providing. It’s entirely reasonable to ask how taxing CO2 will reduce CO2 when there is no alternative at any price. The dimwits at Foreign Affairs have always been in lockstep with the morons at Environment Canada and think it a fine idea. But then, Fort Pearson has always been a repository for the insane.
They are Saving The Planet®, JD That’s what they are providing.
Is the planet still here? Why, yes! Yes, it is.
See? The tax works and is worth every penny. [eyeroll]
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Now, about that income tax. They plan to eliminate the income tax. Surprised, are you?
The way it works is they keep raising taxes on everything until taxes take 100% of your income. With 100% paid in taxes, at the end of the day, you have no income. Therefore, there is no need for an income tax.
The government is out to do four things. First they are trying to kill off as many people as possible with their mRNA jab. Second they are trying to bankrupt and impoverish anyone who isn’t dead or disabled with the carbon tax. Third starve anyone left and fourth leave them without any means of shelter. And it’s all working very well according to plan.
The carbon tax just proves how insane the liberal party has become however the bigger fear is they are doing this in order to actually break people down to be remolded into mindless idiots that never question government policy and always vote liberal, example most of eastern Canada
Carbon tax had strong institutional support from Foreign Affairs and Environment Canada long before Justatwit became Prime Minister in 2015. Prior to that, Jean Chretien fobbed them off with useless time-wasting activities, and Stephen Harper simply ignored them and started pruning back both departments. That’s why both departments cheered wildly in public for Justatwit in 2015 after the election.
All taxes on home heating are predatory because heating your home in a Saskatchewan winter is not optional, it is a necessity of life in a bitterly cold climate. I’ve been looking around at the cost of living in warmer countries and now I realize just how much more it costs to live here. In many of those warmer countries, the monthly bill for all of their utilities combined is less than one monthly saskpower bill or one winter saskenergy bill.
As the cost of energy continues to rise, petroleum extraction is shackled and business competitiveness declines due to federal government policies…the Canadian standard of living will sink rapidly. We are already being taxed close to Scandinavian levels but are moving ever closer to receiving developing nation levels of service and banana republic style government corruption.
They want you to heat with intermittent/unreliable windymill electricity so you freeze to death and keep the world from getting warmer.
Climate Crisis Cultists are an existential threat to humanity.
A cull is required.
A very comprehensive inclusive cull.
Happiness is a full woodshed.
Oh my gosh.. I had no idea we could all be Quebecers..
Dem Quebecers in the countryside know to burn wood instead of electricity.
The only benefit from a carbon tax is for boasting rights at international sociopath and hypocrisy-fests. Not one molecule of CO2 will be reduced globally at least not one that’s verifiable. The working class will continue to get hosed by their NDP/LPC Jacobins.
Bought some propane. Basic cost was $323 and final bill was $462. That’s a lot of fees and taxes.
I go on Twitter and post the BC gas bill I get has a carbon tax rate of 40% of delivery, supply etc and sundry other charges, or 25% of the entire bill. People call me a liar. I tell them to FO. They demand “proof.” I tell them to FO.
We are taxed at a higher rate on our fuel – that keeps us from freezing to death, transports our goods and services so is integral to our standard of living – than on our incomes. Now these taxes on the cleanest burning fuel, which we have plenty of, so others can burn dirtier fuels elsewhere to supply us. Definitional dystopia.
But, as usual, when viewed through the lens of power, it “makes sense” for “our democracy,” aka their power.
IOW:
Using coal fired slave labour to supply us with wind turbines and unrecyclable solar panels “makes sense.”
Shipping crude across oceans instead of by utilizing domestic pipelines (from Alberta) “makes sense.”
Bankrolling the entire production costs of wealthy foreign companies to “create jobs” now “makes sense.”
Us, at 1.6% of “emissions” destroying resources and agriculture to “fight climate change” – “makes sense.”
Usurping provincial jurisdiction and simultaneously destroying dental and benefits programs “makes sense.”
Pretending to add up Grits and NDP votes to enact a years long “coalition” nobody voted for “makes sense.”
Is it any wonder they hide on on Parliament Hill pretending bouncy castles are evidence of domestic terrorism?
Their fascist southern cousins have taught them to plumb any low or commit any depravity for their power.
That’s about the size of it. Public education has definitely left its mark.
Very little of what’s happening in Canada makes sense except that it’s a power grab. The goal of the command and control economy by the federal government is to impoverish Canadians and rich provinces to make them dependent on the federal government. Anyone with even a cursory understanding of history knows where this leads. Most will deny what is plain to see until it is too late.
Canadians are so f ing stupid it really pisses me off. Twaddels and Gilbert should be in chains, along with every other idiot that believes that every breath they take is killing the planet. THEY ARE STUPID.
CO2 is not a problem, dumb assed stupid people are.
I emailed BC Premier David Eby about joining Saskatchewan in axing the carbon tax.
No response.
And to add insult to the filthy carbon tax, they add the 5% GST to it.
I guess it is legal to tax a tax here in Canada.
Has been for some time now.
Churches and their adjoining facilities and club rooms all over the nation are cutting the heat and going dark.
INSANITY!