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Originally Posted by old-fart
What about the increase in cost for everything you buy? Sorry, but if you increase the cost to make a widget with a new tax, and the cost to package that widget, the cost to ship that widget, the cost to market and sell that widget (all of these things take energy of some sort, and that energy is now going to be carbon taxed).... the end price of said widget is going to go up. Will those tax cuts take that into account? Of course not. Plus, the GST will be up on the end price as well, even if they don't raise the GST rate (as the Liberals have also suggested they will do). If the end cost of $100 widget goes up to $120, that's an extra $1 in GST the government will collect on every single widget.... Is Dion returning that to us as well?
Didn't think so...
This tax will plunge Canada into a deep recession in all sections of the economy. Dion needs to go back to academia where he can sit around and muse about policy that will never work in the real world.
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Exactly what i have been thinking...I was listening to the radio in Vancouver the other day and the topic du jour was the BC Olympic (nee carbon) tax. One person called in and said "The tax doesn't effect me, it is a consumption tax, and i choose not to drive, so i am for it!" I guess they don't realize that everything you do in some way requires energy, therefor those prices will rise as well...that will create more tax revenue for the goverment.
The appliances i was looking at buying a few months ago are now $200 dollars more each now..mmm...I wonder why!