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Originally Posted by Bend it like Bourgeois
Both policies together are part of a market. If they authors meant simply insititute a tax on one part of the economy they probably would have said that. I guess we simply disagree on what a market approach is.
Isn't the idea that consumers will not feel the pain? Gas prices, heating prices, transport prices will not go up thanks to reductions in fuel tax? Or do I have that wrong?
Imagine a cigarette tax that taxed manufacturers but promised a pack of smokes would cost the same thing. Would that be considered anything other than a tax on the manufacturers? Would anyone think it would reduce the amount of cigarette sales?
Maybe I'm just too cynical. But when the libs themselves call this a social spending initiaitve, when I haven't heard emissions reduction targets or stated goals other than to tax and spend, and when the majority of the costs are paid where they won't get votes anyway, I smell politics, not policy.
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I see your sentiments here and don't totally disagree. But the reason that gas prices wouldn't rise under this plan is because the current gasoline taxes are part of this plan; there is no increase.