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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
But that is where green taxes are really supposed to work - on industry. If company X can find a way to shave costs and have lower prices than company Y and thus sell more product, then company X will have a market advantage. Therefore companies that are being taxed due to their CO2 output, may actually have a market reason to clean up their act.
If you believe that both company X and company Y will both just raise their prices to cover the new tax, then you believe that capitalism is a broken system. As a card carrying member of the Green Party, I've supported CO2 taxes long before I ever heard the name Stephane Dion. I think the profit motive is far more effective in sparking creative thinking than hard caps and regulation are.
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That would be swell if Dion was proposing to be the PM of the earth.
Problem is that anyone who makes the widget in a different country gets the advantage and kills the Canadian compeditor.
The entire green movement would be better served to not be so regional. Dion is just looking for votes in areas of the country where he thinks he has a chance to grab a vote. The entire proposal has nothing to do with cleaner air, the earth will not emitt less CO2. The proposal has to do with being a regional populist in his country and push industry out to other another.
Kyoto was the same way, buy votes at home without doing a bit of good for the country.