Comparisons to countries like Germany really aren't that helpful in talking about the Green Tax Shaft. European countries are considerably smaller than Canada, and are more densely populated.
There is no debate that the Green Shaft will raise the price of everything. It is simple math. Companies will NOT just eat the increase in costs - they will pass those costs on to the consumers. The price of gas WILL go up - the Liberals claim there will be no new tax at the pump, which might be true, but the oil companies WILL pass on the increased costs imposed on them by the Green Tax Shaft. Anything that needs to be transported to the end consumer (which is pretty much everything) WILL go up in price as those companies are forced to pay higher costs for that transportation.
The Liberals who continue to claim this plan is "revenue neutral" with the implication that Joe Average will be no worse off are flat out lying. It is only "revenue neutral" in the sense that the Liberal government would spend all the money they collect on various schemes - just like they spent billions of our dollars on HRDC, the gun registry, paying off their friends via plain brown envelopes, etc.
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