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Originally Posted by old-fart
So, if all is as you claim and everything after implementation of the Carbon Tax will be much the same as it was before... what's the point? It's obviously not meant to have any impact on the environment at all as the there are no actual GHG emission reduction targets in the "plan". Dion has also spent every cent (and more) he says he's going to collect from the tax on either tax reductions or his pet social engineering schemes - so how would he pay for these things if consumption actually declined as he would taking in less tax?
This is nothing more than a tax grab to pay for Dion's agenda wrapped in a "green" wrapper. It is a sham.
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Bingo. So far, the only justification anyone has for Dion's Carbon Scam is "anything is better than nothing." Honestly, in this case, doing nothing different is better than Dion's "
Green" Shift. No change to the environment either way, and better for the consumer in the long run.
If you want to make an impact, work to change our
culture. Canada is a nation where there will always be higher costs for heating and travel. That is a fact of life. But when I pull into Tim Hortons this morning, park my car, walk around the 15 cars waiting in the drive through to get inside where there are FOUR people in line, that's where the issue is. I'm in and out within five minutes, while 15 people sit in their cars for 10 minutes in that line because they are too friggen lazy to walk the 15 steps from the parking lot to the door.
Also, while carbon is the
cause célèbre amongst the faux environmentalist set, there are a great many other things we need to be looking at to help our environment. It is especially ridiculous that Calgary still doesn't have a decent blue box program, and those of us who do try to recycle end up having to go to one of the about four recycling locations within the city where the bins are always overfilled.